I had a couple of recent discussions on the phone recently with 2 head hunters who were trying to get me a “dream job” in some banks in the city. I say “dream job” because that’s exactly how they presented it to me – the fact that it was in a bank it meant for […]
“We are one of the greatest companies to work for!” I’m sure you’ve heard this a few times through your interviews. And only very rarely it proves to be the case. (leaving aside the fact that “great” is a subjective term and as such it’s difficult to compare the “greatness” of 2 companies , which […]
Just like many others I do keep an eye on the technical articles and blogs that are out there on the net. I’d like to think that most of the ones I’m reading are quite authoritative on some areas of programming and present some useful insights into the world of IT. Even so, I am […]
This is just something that has been the subject of many discussions in between myself and various friends of mine for a while now so I thought I’d summarize some of these into a post – if nothing else just to remind myself a few years down the line what I used to think about […]
I have noticed recently that “cloud” and “multi-core” became buzz words in the Java world. (About time if you ask me!) The interesting bit is the implication it has on writing code — and so many developers (and not only!) are blogging their nuts off about this. All of a sudden it is ok to […]
If you ask Joe Bloggs what he uses the net for nowadays, a common term that pops up is “research”. People use the net to learn things — not a bad idea at all! After all, the information (in most cases) is out there, just waiting to be found. And with the competitiveness of the […]
The following might seem obvious for some of you but I felt the need to publish it as it took me ages to get exim4 and Outlook 2003 to work together with one of the domains I’ve just bought. In brief, I’ve bought a new domain (call it example.com) and I went this time for […]
To those who may concern: if you are using an all-in-one Kodak printer and are experiencing difficulties with either installing the software from the installation CD or using the Kodak AiO Software (once installed) to set it all up, here’s a handy “tip” which will probably save lots of time and talks to Kodak helpdesk: […]
Just installed ClickHeat on my blog — while there’s no stats just yet for it (literally I’ve just installed it) I would be curious to find out whether the click heat map does follow indeed what Nielsen presented quite a while back on his useit.com… Stay tuned 🙂
Have you heard of megoget.com? Me neither 😀 But apparently it’s gonna rock!
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