tmastro

For those of you who have experience in the hiring process for developers, what have you found to be a better predictor of success for applicants: work they've done on side projects or performance in a technical interview? Or something else?

Would anyone be interested in a site to connect with other developers based on common interest in topics as well as programming languages? The purpose being to find people to work on side projects with.

Anything like this already exist? If so, what's your experience with it?