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Re:How to Hire a Programmer by bryanlarsen on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @09:01AM (#3670985)
He has a portfolio, then. For example, here's my portfolio from 2002-2006: http://www.lumenera.com/products/surveillance-cameras/index..... I was solely responsible for version 1.0 of the software and led the team that did version 2.0.
Re:How to Hire a Programmer by bh42222 on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @10:35AM (#3671446)
Sorry, we are now stretching the term "portfolio". Your link is what I would call an item in your resume, with a quick summary about which you would be ready to talk during the interview.

I think when Jeff Atwood says "portfolio" he means not just things you'd put on your resume, but source code and publicly available articles you've written, and for some reason a twitter account.

But not just "I developed that closed source project, over there." That's what everyone has on their resume.

-- Ninja Edit---

Actually I just looked at Jeff's other article, and apparently what he calls a "portfolio", is what I call a well written resume.

Re:How to Hire a Programmer by storborg on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @07:04PM (#3673552)
I think the point is: portfolio = "what did you do?", whereas resume = "where did you work?"
Re:How to Hire a Programmer by bh42222 on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @10:01AM (#3675676)
If all your resume contains is a list of previous employers, that is a horrible resume!

Where/when you worked should be just a company name and a date. That's it. It should be followed by a very brief description of what you did there.

So OP's resume would contain something like:

- Lumera (2002-2006):

I was solely responsible for version 1.0 of the software and led the team that did version 2.0.

Re:How to Hire a Programmer by kamjam on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @01:06PM (#3672087)
I have a relative of mine, who has around 20+ experience in embedded software/hardware areas

How exactly is he going to put up an online portfolio, or a link to a website, when he works in embedded software/hardware. Not everything programming related is done for the web!

Besides, your link that you have provided means nothing since I can't see your source code... unless you are going for a job as a front end coder of course.