Thank you for this! Was really fun to peek behind the curtain. I appreciated your honesty in the "Shortcuts make long delays" section. Learned a bunch from reading this post.

Could use some love on my feature request. I think it would be high impact and seems like a pretty obvious high value-add to the product.

Really cool use of WinRM!

Really appreciate the level of detail of this blog post. Thank you!

thank you!

I have found that job posting are enough. Of course, you should try to tap your network whenever you can, but in practice that will mean a much smaller pool of people who are both qualified and looking for a new position.

Also do you find different job postings work better for different networks? Github vs SO vs Glassdoor.

Which networks have you found most effective for finding good engineers?

I love StackOverflow careers. They are expensive, but draw a quality crowd.

thanks, Peter! I slaved over words in that deck, so getting this kind of feedback makes it all worth it!

Here's the link to SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/OBeautifulCode/learn-rest

you can "save" the presentation locally

Though you can only save the presentation if you log in. Creating an account requires authorizing SlideShare to edit your LinkedIn or Facebook account.

One can use a LinkedIn account from BugMeNot (http://bugmenot.com/view/linkedin.com) to safely log into SlideShare so you can download the PDF.

(It would have been more convenient if you had just published a PDF download link alongside the SlideShare embed.)

Ah! I didn't realize that. Here's the direct link: http://obeautifulcode.com/doc/Learn-REST.pdf

That's dramatic. Learning any new topic, particularly one as involved as REST, require some investment of time. Your blog post has FAR more content than my slides do. And your approach is from a "best practices" point-of-view. So the arc of our stories is necessarily different. I'm glad that blogs enable people to learn the same topic in multiple ways. It's a good for everyone. I just wish people would avoid self-promotion on top of other people's backs. =)

I have found the article I linked to be incredibly digestible for people learning REST, which is why I recommend it; regardless of the point-of-view. It's what I think is missing from your slides. You might be able to solve this in the context of an actual presentation, but taken as just the slides, it's very dense.

Also, this isn't self-promotion at all. I'm not in any way associated with that blog. I just like the content.

Different perspectives and learning styles, I suppose. I'm not trying to be argumentative, just briefly laying out my thoughts. Cheers

Yeah, as I said in my blog post this is certainly text-heavy. The more appropriate format would have been a article, but I wanted an excuse to play with SlideShare. This deck could have be thinner with more visuals if it were accompanied by audio or video as in a proper talk. But I didn't have the time to do that, so I wanted the deck to be self-contained. Just think about it as a textual blog post in slide format.

Your content is great, but this really is a horrible abuse of SlideShare. I suggest pulling the content out in to an article as well.

(One side effect: I wanted to save this to Pocket to read later on a flight, but couldn't because it was slides, not HTML).

I think "horrible" is pretty strong and perhaps you meant a lighter shade of gray :-) It is unfortunate that this doesn't work on Pocket. Thanks for letting me know!