I’ve been going to a meeting of “High Tech Job Seekers,” which is attended by 50+ people twice a week. At each meeting, every member introdu
I’ve been going to a meeting of “High Tech Job Seekers,” which is attended by 50+ people twice a week. At each meeting, every member introdu
Ever since my first days in college, I have sporadically made daily and weekly schedules for myself. (I make no claim to have followed them
I have talked to several people about the job hunt, and they all recommend networking as one (if not the only) approach that really works. M
I recently got on a mailing list where people are discussing the pros and cons of a corporate dress code. The discussion was prompted by <a
When businesses run into challenges, they take a hard look at their assets: They update their inventory. They look for things they could sel
One idea I have been toying with is recruiting my family to help me find a new job. I got an amazing lead just Friday from my brother. From
After getting laid off, one of the first pieces of professional advice I received was, “Get business cards with your contact information on
As I suggested in my last post, updating my list of contacts seemed even more important to me than updating my resume. Furthermore, as word
I found out on December 10 that my last day would be December 19. I thought I took it pretty well. The company had had one round of layoffs
This example shows how to attach a file to an item in the database.
No special preparation is required.
In this example, the drag-and-drop action results in submission of a form followed by rendering of a new page.
No speci
No special preparation is required.
It is assumed only that your database has a table of items with
Although much of your site may be public, you may want to keep parts of it only for users who have logged in. Specifically, you may want to
For Rails 2.0 or higher, you will have to install a plug-in with the following command:
ruby script/plugin insta
It is convenient to display items that the user has visited recently, MRU (Most Recently Used) items.
No special prepar
In his conversation with Kai Ryssdal, Robert Samu
An earlier post mentioned the benefits of letting banks fail. <a href=”http://www.npr
Anushka wrote,<blockquote>you put energy, in the form of risk, love, et c
This showed up in my inbox…
Once there was a little island country. The land of this country was the tiny island itself. The total money
Robert Krulwich, TV and radio science rep
An NPR story described how an otherwise unsuperstitious man advi
While at our outsourcing partner in India, I learned that one of the engineers was synchronizing the tip of one revision control system (CVS
एकं सत विप्रा: बहुदा वदन्ति The Rig Veda (Book I, Chapter CLXIV, Verse 46)