[GoranM]

Here's a relatively novel idea (I guess): Outline exactly what you need the developer to do, and have them send in proof that they can actually do it.

Previous projects, personal github experiments ... Most capable programmers will have something interesting to show.

Right?

[namenotrequired]

Good idea but I think part of the point of the article is that the job will change. So to "Outline exactly what you need the developer to do, and have them send in proof that they can actually do it" is, again, to attract people with 'experience' that happens to fit that particular job description, rather than talent.

[blacktiger]

It's not that novel and it seems like there are quite a few companies that do something like this. The main problem with this approach is that you have probably screened out good software engineers that don't have a portfolio of public code they can share.