http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660Erik, don't try to get perfect, just write it out, you'll get it wrong a lot of times, but you'll get better http://ayende.com/3729/how-to-get-good-people#comment10http://ayende.com/3729/how-to-get-good-people#comment10Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:46:52 GMTOren, Great article and I agree on almost every point (have to agree with Bart that it seems in an economic downturn its the bottom people that companies could afford to lose that tend to flood the job market). You and Jeft Atwood both inspired me to start my own blog at [http://www.formatexception.com](http://www.formatexception.com) The question I have is how do you get your blog known? Clearly you have a large reader base but where do you start to get more readers? Thanks, Brian http://ayende.com/3729/how-to-get-good-people#comment9http://ayende.com/3729/how-to-get-good-people#comment9Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:16:28 GMTOren, Oren, thanks for your huge contribution to the community and making me think differently. I've also started a blog after I have been following yours for quite some time. I face the same regularity of posting problem as Erik, however I'm working on it and everytime I do something and I think it would make for a good post I immediatly start up an editor write several phrases and save the file for later when I have time to elaborate. Later on, usually during the weekends I go through the files and decide wich one makes it to the blog. The trick for me is that whenever I get an idee I note it down. http://ayende.com/3729/how-to-get-good-people#comment8http://ayende.com/3729/how-to-get-good-people#comment8Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:06:29 GMTAyende, I've recently had some time, and read through a few of your first blog posts. It's really interesting to see how your writing has developed, and it's also a very good insight for other people (me included) to see how one's online presence grows over time. If I read it correct, while writing all these articles/messages, you slowly got interested in ORM and (n)Hibernate and ActiveRecord specifically. Now I think you're one of the more important people around the whole nHibernate project. Good job ;-) I've started a blog as well, but I'm too unorganized to regularly write posts. I've got a lot to write about though, mainly about things I encounter while using nHibernate on existing databases. Any tips on how to maintain a regular schedule for posting things? I'm afraid I'm going to forget to write about the important things ;-) http://ayende.com/3729/how-to-get-good-people#comment7http://ayende.com/3729/how-to-get-good-people#comment7Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:42:51 GMTI actually disagree about the "bubble burst" part. I think its harder to find people when there is a downturn in the market. Like you mentioned, they are the people that are likely to be happy somehwere else. Most of the people "let go" are the bottom of the food chain looking for jobs. No company is going to let the best talent go first (under certain circumstances sometimes entire offices get closed, but that is rarer than rounds of layoffs). The best people we found were actually in 2005 right when the economy was picking up after the 2002-03 downturn. http://ayende.com/3729/how-to-get-good-people#comment6http://ayende.com/3729/how-to-get-good-people#comment6Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:01:41 GMTI think it's completely possible and probable that there are non-blogging good people out there. But I do think that one that blogs and doesn't happen to make an ass of him or herself can communicate their goodness over time, such as yourself. I have interviewed people though that come across well in their blogs but aren't actually that great though, so you have to have a good interview process in place either way. http://ayende.com/3729/how-to-get-good-people#comment5http://ayende.com/3729/how-to-get-good-people#comment5Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:31:42 GMTconfigurator, practice makes perfect, write crappy articles, that is fine. Just do it long enough and you'll see improvement http://ayende.com/3729/how-to-get-good-people#comment4http://ayende.com/3729/how-to-get-good-people#comment4Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:29:38 GMT@Oren, Great article, I agree with you you on all points. It is very important for developers, hunting jobs or not, to have an onlince presence and be involved with the community. @configurator, I don't think it really matters what you are blogging. You don't have to have big long thought out articles. Just right about how you fixed a problem, or something else that you stumbled across. Chances are if you didn't know it before then, then there are others too. http://ayende.com/3729/how-to-get-good-people#comment3http://ayende.com/3729/how-to-get-good-people#comment3Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:46:03 GMTI completely agree, which is why I opened a blog. But it's empty - I have no idea what to write there! I'm not a writer, I'm a programmer. I write good code. And crappy articles. Even in my comments, I write and delete every sentence at least three or four times (including this one) before I'm happy with it. And I don't even have an idea to write about... http://ayende.com/3729/how-to-get-good-people#comment2http://ayende.com/3729/how-to-get-good-people#comment2Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:56:51 GMTOren, I was so inspired by your post that I've written my own one on this subject. Tell me what you think: [blogs.microsoft.co.il/.../...technical-people.aspx](http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/linqed/archive/2008/11/30/how-hire-great-technical-people.aspx) http://ayende.com/3729/how-to-get-good-people#comment1http://ayende.com/3729/how-to-get-good-people#comment1Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:45:58 GMT