Even as web developers and designers produce more and more sophisticated ways of presenting clients’ products and services online, we are limited in how we can present ourselves to future clients. We can build our own websites, of course, but we’re often still limited to less sophisticated ways of showing ourselves off: resumes and portfolios that are essentially digital copies of a paper-based approach. Isn’t there a more dynamic way? This is what Coderbits claims to do. We asked founder and CEO Scott Smith to explain.
即使Web开发人员和设计师产生了越来越复杂的在线展示客户产品和服务的方式,我们在向未来客户展示自己的方式方面也受到限制。 当然,我们可以建立自己的网站,但我们仍然常常局限于不太复杂的炫耀方式:简历和投资组合实质上是基于纸张的方法的数字副本。 有没有更动态的方式? 这是Coderbits声称要做的。 我们请创始人兼首席执行官Scott Smith进行解释。
什么是Coderbits? (What is Coderbits?)
Coderbits is a site that builds intelligent portfolios for software developers and designers. Coderbits tackles the problem of traditional resumes being inadequate at verifying the skills, traits, and knowledge software developers and designers possess.
Coderbits是一个为软件开发人员和设计人员构建智能产品组合的网站。 Coderbits解决了传统简历不足以验证软件开发人员和设计师所拥有的技能,特征和知识的问题。
As a director of software development, I found that using resumes for the purpose of identifying quality candidates fell short. Instead of using resumes to determine which candidates to interview, I was instead forced to hold pre-screen interviews and tests. Both actions wasted my time and that of the candidates in order to determine which candidates to call in for interviews. Sites like LinkedIn provided very little value as well being based on the same premise of resumes. The content is unverified and subjective.
作为软件开发主管,我发现使用简历来确定高质量的候选人是不够的。 我没有使用简历来确定要面试的候选人,而是被迫进行了筛选前的面试和测试。 两项行动都浪费了我和候选人的时间,以便确定应聘哪些候选人进行面试。 基于相同的简历前提,像LinkedIn这样的网站提供的价值也很小。 内容未经验证且主观。
As a software developer, I realized the many sites and services I utilized daily already contained the information needed to automatically build a portfolio that shows what software developers and designers know, what we’ve done, and what our interests are.
作为软件开发人员,我意识到我每天使用的许多站点和服务已经包含了自动构建投资组合所需的信息,这些投资组合显示了软件开发人员和设计师知道什么,我们做了什么以及我们的兴趣是什么。
Coderbits was founded to leverage that information and empower software developers and designers to easily build a knowledge portfolio and at the same time help employers hire with confidence.
建立Coderbits的目的是利用这些信息,并授权软件开发人员和设计人员轻松建立知识组合,同时帮助雇主放心地雇用。
它是如何工作的? (How does it work?)
Building a portfolio on coderbits was designed to be simple and require as little input as possible. The Builder is where users are able to link to 60+ sites. Where available, Coderbits offers account linking via OAuth. This is the simplest and easiest way for users to link to an account. When OAuth is not available, linking is done by typing in the account username. Once the account is linked the true magic happens – aggregation.
在编码器位上构建投资组合的目的很简单,即需要尽可能少的输入。 用户可以在Builder中链接到60多个站点。 如果可用,Coderbits会通过OAuth提供帐户链接。 这是用户链接到帐户的最简单,最简单的方法。 如果OAuth不可用,则通过输入帐户用户名来完成链接。 帐户建立关联后,真正的魔力便会发生–汇总。
Profile aggregation occurs when an account is first linked and then on a regular automated schedule. The process involves us going out to linked accounts, gathering up all the bits, merging them into one of many portfolio categories, calculating core skills, interests, and traits, automatically building social connections, awarding many of the 500+ badges, and finally creating a full portfolio.
配置文件聚合发生在首先关联帐户,然后按常规自动计划进行的时候。 该过程涉及我们进入关联帐户,收集所有比特,将它们合并为多个投资组合类别之一,计算核心技能,兴趣和特质,自动建立社交关系,授予500多个徽章,最后创建完整的产品组合。
Because we perform aggregation on a schedule, portfolios are always accurate and up-to-date. When things are added or removed from linked accounts, the portfolio is updated accordingly.
由于我们按计划执行汇总,因此投资组合始终是准确且最新的。 当从链接的帐户中添加或删除内容时,投资组合也会相应更新。
透明地工作 (Work Transparently)
A mantra of ours here at Coderbits is to Work Transparently. We like to promote this to encourage to people to work in this way – but what does that mean exactly? It means you should try and find ways to work that makes the work available publicly.
我们在Coderbits的口头禅是透明地工作。 我们喜欢推广这种方式以鼓励人们以这种方式工作-但这到底意味着什么? 这意味着您应该尝试找到使工作公开发布的工作方法。
For example, if you are deciding which MOOC to sign up for and take courses, you would want to choose ones that make your information available on a public profile. The ideal one to choose would be the one with public profiles and public APIs so you or others can get to your information programmatically.
例如,如果您要确定要注册哪个MOOC并参加课程,则希望选择那些可在公开个人资料上显示您的信息的课程。 理想的选择是具有公共配置文件和公共API的一种,以便您或其他人可以通过编程获取信息。
In this situation you are still benefiting from the service offering and allowing the work you do there to be visible as well.
在这种情况下,您仍然可以从服务中受益,并使您在那里所做的工作也可见。
有趣的事实 (Fun Facts)
Being open, available, and transparent with our users has been key to building a successful service. The input and ideas we receive has proven invaluable.
对我们的用户开放,可用和透明是构建成功服务的关键。 我们收到的意见和建议非常宝贵。
The Posts feature was originally created for users to submit bugs, feedback, and get help. By usage it has morphed into a community of highly skilled and informed individuals who are willing to share knowledge through professional tips, designs, and content.
帖子功能最初是为用户创建的,用于提交错误,反馈和获得帮助。 通过使用,它变成了一个技能娴熟,知识渊博的个人社区,他们愿意通过专业的技巧,设计和内容来共享知识。
The value our users get from Coderbits goes beyond what we had originally planned:
我们的用户从Coderbits获得的价值超出了我们最初的计划:
- Find new sites and services. We are a discovery engine for them. 查找新的站点和服务。 我们是他们的发现引擎。
- See the public perception of your skill sets and where you need to improve. 了解公众对您的技能以及需要改进的地方的看法。
- Motivate yourself to do, learn, and share more. 激励自己去做,学习和分享更多。
- Connect, find, and engage with other developers and designers. 与其他开发人员和设计师联系,查找并与之互动。
- Test your Twitter API integration using accounts without any followers ;) 使用没有任何关注者的帐户测试您的Twitter API集成;)
Here are a couple of visual demonstrations of the percentile distribution of Coderbits members by programming languages in which they specialize and online entities in which they have a presence.
这是Coderbits成员通过专门编程的语言和在线实体在社区中的百分比分布的可视化演示。
![programming languages](https://dab1nmslvvntp.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/graph2.png)
![online entities](https://dab1nmslvvntp.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/graph1.png)
Coderbits has just emerged from beta and is now available to you. Come on over and see what you think.
Coderbits刚从Beta版中出现,现在可供您使用。 过来看看你的想法。