If I blog on Windows I’m sans spell check. One of the reasons I miss my Mac….

Now granted, I’d love to be able to wear flip-flops to work….and shorts and t-shirts. It’s my comfort zone. I like that I can wear a t-shirt and jeans to the current job, but it’s mainly business casual.

On the jeans and cowboy hat, remember that the applicant is interviewing you just as much as you’re interviewing the applicant. While out here in California I’d probably do a khakis and a silk shirt, in the southeast, depending on the company, for a developer position I’d be more likely to show up in a T-shirt and jeans, to make sure that the company I’m talking with is serious about development prowess. I want to know that the company I’m working with isn’t just a marketing shell, and I’ve made the mistake a few times of thinking that good products could come out of cultures that placed more of an emphasis on appearance. I’ve since learned that there’s a reason that even at IBM, you can tell the best technical folks at Armonk by their flip-flops.

If the person is a web or graphic designer, on the other hand, you’re hiring a designer, and their personal design should convey the image you want the company to project.