[briandoll]

Going one step further, I've preferred to see candidates with active open-source work available, and better yet, and active github account.

With a github account, you can see how someone interacts with projects, how they build their code (commit by commit), how they submit patches, how they communicate with others about their code, etc. This is all really important stuff for any developer working on a team.

If you don't see their code, and you don't have some live-coding exercises during your interview, how do you know if they can code or not?