Came across this article on /. (Slashdot | The Stigma of a Tech Support Background) and it got me thinking about the person’s problem and some advice I’ve given a some recent grads that I have worked with.   As I see it, the biggest problem a hiring manager has with someone straight out of college [...]

BackwardsCompatibility – Lucene-java Wiki Hmmm, so I have been pondering this for a while and don’t quite know a good solution…  So help would be appreciated. As an active developer of Lucene, we have pretty strict rules about Backwards Compatibility, as evidenced by the link given above.  For the most part, what this translates to, [...]

Couple of things that have been annoying me lately Landline phones with Caller ID functionality.  Say you get a call from somewhere that is long distance.  You select the # in the caller id and then you hit the dial button.  Phone dials!  Success!  Not.  Stupid phone doesn’t add the 1 first.  My current phone [...]

Honestly, does writing an email address as “yourname AT example dot com” on a website really prevent anymore spam than writing “yourname@example.com”?  Seriously, the regular expression to parse the former isn’t all that much more difficult to write than the latter. I would  suggest that you have to write the address in such a way [...]

I wish PowerPoint had a way to put down estimated times for each slide and then sum up the values to tell you how long your presentation is going to run. I do know about the rehearse timings feature, but that is not what I am talking about since I have to run the whole [...]

rebelutionary: Life Is A Hire Way: 5 Tips For Startup Hiring Lately, I’ve been wishing I lived in Australia, because this guy seems to get it and Atlassian sounds like a great place to work (plus, he gets Open Source, and what makes it great.) Not that I am looking for a job, b/c I [...]