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Andy Lester
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I've been a professional programmer for 33 years. I work in Perl and a big pile of legacy PHP.

My book Land the Tech Job You Love is available from Pragmatic Bookshelf.

I created and maintain the programmer's grep-like search tool ack

My blog about tech life, including job hunting, is blog.petdance.com.

Twitter: petdance, beyondgrep and perlbuzz

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How do you respond to "Tell me a little bit about yourself." question in interviews?
Oct 11, 2010
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What is the best way to discern an excellent programmer in a job interview?
Oct 29, 2008
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How do I get people to stop bikeshedding (focusing on trivialities)?
Nov 21, 2013
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How to deal with team members writing bad code
May 8, 2014
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How big of a team do you need to benefit from bug tracking software?
Feb 28, 2011
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Are there laws to protect us from hackers who disclose vulnerabilities prior to alerting the vendor?
Oct 13, 2010
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What can slow a developer down?
Oct 22, 2010
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How to explain to a non-technical person why the task will take much longer than they think?
Feb 13, 2011
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Would it be a bad idea to periodically run code formatters on a repository?
Apr 13, 2017
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How do you maximise the knowledge that you gain from a programming book?
Oct 18, 2010
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How do I set a variable to the output of a command in Bash?
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How do I add an empty directory to a Git repository?
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How can I validate an email address using a regular expression?
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How can I sanitize user input with PHP?
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How can I speed up my Perl program?