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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>It's Not Just A Programming Problem.</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/tristank/archive/2007/02/28/it-s-not-just-a-programming-problem.aspx</link><description>Over at CodingHorror, Jeff riffs on problems hiring for development positions , when many interviewees aren't able to answer the most basic of code questions. Well, I'm sure this is a common story in any skills-or-knowledge-driven industry where there's</description><dc:language>en-AU</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>re: It's Not Just A Programming Problem.</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/tristank/archive/2007/02/28/it-s-not-just-a-programming-problem.aspx#665808</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:38:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:665808</guid><dc:creator>Jodee</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Actually I seem to remember it was &amp;quot;What is WINS?&amp;quot; as the canary question. &amp;nbsp;When they didn't know what WINS was, you STILL asked the NetBIOS node types question.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I also remember when you were going through somebody's resume and they had put as one of their hobbies &amp;quot;Producing high quality midi music files&amp;quot;, to which you were commented: &amp;quot;I think I'll be the judge of that&amp;quot;. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I'm sure they felt even more at ease after that.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: It's Not Just A Programming Problem.</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/tristank/archive/2007/02/28/it-s-not-just-a-programming-problem.aspx#666067</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:32:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:666067</guid><dc:creator>tristank</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hey Jodee, it's my soapbox, I can misremember what I want!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And if you're right, well, that's just sticking to the plan, isn't it?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There was still a chance that someone might have forgotten the WINS acronym but.... nah, you're right, it probably was a bit OTT.&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: It's Not Just A Programming Problem.</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/tristank/archive/2007/02/28/it-s-not-just-a-programming-problem.aspx#711420</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:31:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:711420</guid><dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Producing high quality midi music files&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am adding that to my resume today.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>