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 [...]

Grant’s Grunts » Apple and Developers As a follow up from this year’s ApacheCon: I had 30 people in my Lucene Boot Camp training class this time around and I would guess that at least 15 were on Apple laptops (50%, well above the general Apple market share).  I also would guess that there were [...]

Facebook invites ads into user profiles – Yahoo! News Hmmm, I seemed to have missed the part where the people producing all the content that Facebook is capitalizing on get a cut of the ad revenue that is generated from their pages. Why again is this a good thing for Facebook users?  Why should I [...]

Microsoft Defends Stealth Windows Updates – Yahoo! News Solution:  Apple.

Anyone know a good, free tool for editing large text files (> 500 MBs)?  vi is decent, but not great.  Please email me or leave a comment.  I have an XML file that is around 1 GB that I need to manipulate, but vi is not really cutting it, and Emacs wants to load the [...]

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 [...]