In this techie world where last year is just so last decade I finally looked for and found that Google Advanced search can be page age aware. When looking for some code (even documentation) for something it is great to exclude older references. Great not to find JavaScript for Netscape 3 when I need it […]
I attended the Boulder.me locals night event last night. Despite crashing any group (that had predominantly closed toe shoes) as if I were “speed dating”, I didn’t get to meet many companies, but the few I did impressed me far more in person than I’d taken from their website. They routinely blamed their website for […]
I still hear marketeer type folks saying “go to blogs and post a comment, linking back to your site”. You’ll get traffic and improve your SEO. Anybody with a half-way-modern blogging package has implemented that urls in comments get hypertexted with rel=”nofollow” which zaps any SEO value.
I don’t know wether to mention this to all the folks manually trying […]
At the beginning of the year I started a mental/physical (and technical) journey. I took a leap into the career unknown. After a lot of hikes/snowshoes along came Ruby on Rails on a Mac, a nomadic work-style, and a lot of fresh encounters. Not an easy transition (and still in progress) but so far a rewarding […]
Neat idea, and a good example of how to be remarkable to developers. Th good ones (with the big egos will want to be “one of the precious ‘few’ who were chosen”. Probably a cheap way to build a great database of e-mail addresses/resumes, and put some coder’s bums in seats.
This is the view from my sometimes office…this is the office…I was just taking these photos, thinking that this was the perfect place to work on a good weather day, and then my poor dog got attacked by wasps. Somehow he must have stepped on a nest or something, but suddenly there were ten or […]
Many years ago a colleague passed on the phrase “draining the poisons” to describe the process of moving on from a job that didn’t work out. This could be personal recovery (”getting back to you”) but as importantly it is a necessary step in preparing oneself for interviewing before the next one. A rebound job […]