Since I have a tendency to bang on every now and again about how we, as developers, could do better in managing our careers (for example, by creating CVs that don’t suck, and by staying ahead of the curve), Dave Thomas asked me to speak for a mere 50 minutes on the subject at GOTO Aarhus, a talk I wasn’t enormously happy with as there was no way to cover a lifetime of hard-fought experience in such a short time.

For no reason other than LinkedIn communications are starting to irritate me, here’s my personal LinkedIn Etiquette guide. Feel free to disagree with it all.

I had an interesting discussion last night at the LJC developer sessions, and it’s a topic that comes up again and again:

When you’re applying for a job at LMAX, your CV (or résumé, for our American readers) usually comes through me and I decide whether to call you for a technical phone screen.

I’m going to let you into a secret.

We are hiring! If you think we’re doing something interesting, or if you think you can help us do our thing even better, come join us. Your boss will be the dude who wrote Continuous Delivery, you’ll get a chance to experience what Danny calls meta-Agile (or Agile Agile), and you’ll really start to care about Domain-Driven Design. Ideally we’re after Java people, but at the heart of it we want people who are dead passionate about development.

I’ve learnt a lot professionally and personally during my time here in New York, but the time has come to go back “home”.I’ll be relocating to London in September. I guess it won’t hurt to mention on here that I’ll be looking for an exciting new job when I get back there. Check out my LinkedIn profile if you are in the market for a Java tech team lead.