A lot of you are completely missing the value of someone who is an expert with HTML and CSS.
I call these people "Front-end developers" and their skill set can range from from HTML and CSS, to Javascript expertise and the ability to integrate their work into the system themselves. Cross browser compatibility and clean, extensible, maintainable work is an extremely valuable skill set.
And a skillset that many regular 'ole web developers just don't have. My previous company had no clue of the value of a good front-end developer and just figured they could do it all themselves. They then had, literally, 50% of their bug database filled with front-end related issues. Just because you can write awesome algorithms, and a content management system from scratch doesn't mean you can also "do" HTML, CSS and Javascript.
For my current project, I am specifically looking for a front-end developer. We have plenty of people to code, and a good design. But if I have to spend anymore time fixing IE bugs and trying to make the "perfect" WYSIWYG editor I'm going to start pulling my hair out. The front-end developer I am looking for would not be treated any differently from the rest of my team. They are a developer who focuses on front-end issues.
A front-end developer is not a designer. A "Web designer" is a designer who specializes in web as a medium. Some designers are capable enough to produce very good HTML, CSS and Javascript... most, however, should try to not leave their primary skillset because they suck balls as developers. Quite frankly, the personality type that would make one a good designer simultaneously makes them really shitty developers.
A similar thing happened to me, but where someone with my name from my home town was in a newspaper article talking about how she did drugs, had children, and was trying to find her way in this world.
Flood the market by telling everyone and anyone who you are. Create a website with your name as the domain name, and talk about yourself or interests. If you're a developer, make it a developer blog talking about the things you've contributed and discovered. Ensure the sites you develop have good SEO, like by putting your name in the title, and an h1 tag at the top of the HTML document with your name in it.
If you have multiple varied interests, create a website of your work for each one and link to each other. Join other sites and create profiles using your real name, and interlink each other.
Eventually you'll end up showing Google that your name means you, and not that other guy.
The theory I have had is that autism is a genetic trait. I see it woefully common that people with severe problems are children of one or both parents who had only marginal problems.
I think the rise in autism, then, is 1) increased social acceptance of differences, 2) changes in "mating patterns", 3) the ease of finding like-minded individuals.
I'm honestly shocked that his list for web CMS options leaves out Drupal in favour of Alfresco and OpenCMS. Especially when he mentions that OpenCMS merely has promise to be great. Well, Drupal is already great.
Drupal has been making such great waves, that I haven't had to advertise my Drupal services for the last two and a half years. Potential clients just come directly to me specifically requesting Drupal.
As a web developer, the open source CMS I use *is* my livelihood. I contribute a small amount, and everyone else contributes a small amount. We're all helping each other make the web a better place.
Perhaps it is analogous to unions - we all pitch in a little more so we can take advantage of working as a team.
I learned of this bug late last night and confirmed it. This morning I was prompted for an update which fixed the bug. Updates, BTW, are extremely easy to install.
Your question of "how quickly" was answered: Pretty damn fast, actually.
"the look alike" phenomenon is from poor front end developers who won't put in the energy for theming. My website is built in Drupal, and doesn't look like any other Drupal site out there.
My great aunt died of cancer caused by asbestos exposure. She was only exposed to it through her husband - her husband had preventative treatment, but she did not because they didn't realize she could be exposed through the residue left on his clothing.
From my experience with watching how the companies I work for treat patents, they aren't used offensively. They are used to:
A) Show proof of innovation to venture capitalists, stock holders and management B) Ensure they will have the right to use that process, so some other guy won't use a patent offensively against them.
I would say the patent you're discussing falls under A.
However, that certainly doesn't stop a patent troll from buying the company who has the patent and then using it offensively.
I've been hitting my limit regularly for the past few weeks, remaining at around 95% capacity. It now got raised to 3138mb, giving me 87%:D
I started using gmail in 2004, and today have over 45k conversations. I have not been using it for any sort of storage. I just simply get a lot of email.
I thought about this the other day, anyone know if they've ever tried splitting the smarter/average/dumb kids up into their own classes permanently from 5th or so through 12th, as in they hardly ever see the other groups anymore except between classes and at lunch? I would be curious if the social structures in each group would clash, or if the system would work. That is known as tracking. Tracking, that is, grouping students by ability through all classes rather than judging ability by subject, was usually referred to as illegal in education courses I took or in schools in which I taught, but I cannot find a citation to back that up. The closest I found was here, which alludes to the potential for civil rights violations.
Illegal? I've never heard of that before, but damn, I'd be thrilled if it were.
I switched from private school to public school for middle school. The private school had accelerated math, but didn't teach us French. The public school, on the other hand, had average math and had already been teaching French for two years. I simply could not catch up to two years of French, so after failing it miserably, they switched me out of the class.
But in order to accommodate me switching out of the class, I also had to switch out of every other class due to scheduling constraints. At first I had no idea that the other classes were different levels, but I quickly realized that I was just put into all the idiot classes.
I was flabbergasted. I mean, yes, I did feel better about myself because I wasn't in a class where I was failing miserably anymore, but now I had become massively bored because I was completing all the work in a fraction of the speed all my new classmates could. I was getting A's without a smidgen of effort. I was doing now the same work for the third time (first in private school, then in the accelerated classes, and now once again in the slow classes).
I was miserable and angry. My teachers attempted to mitigate my anger by making me the official class tutor. Once I figured out that scheduling constraints made it impossible to be in different levels for each subject, I confronted my math teacher. I asked her point blank if I was in this class only because I couldn't take French. Her eyes widened with this pained look on her face, "No, thats not true," she gingerly told me. "Then why is it that even though I was getting A's in the previous math class, I was placed in this one? I am tutoring half the people in this class! Shouldn't I be put in the higher level?" Her face just drained of color and she didn't say a word.
Subsequently, I was behind in high school and had to catch up. All because I didn't know French.
I used to be pretty neutral regarding Hillary Clinton, leaning towards a bit supportive because, hell, it'd be cool if we finally had a woman president.
But now I hope she doesn't get elected. I feel as though she is too pro-regulation and "protect the children" oriented. I don't like how she's been handling the gaming issues of the last few years, such as Hot Coffee. I want our government to leave us alone and stop this "protect the children" bullshit, and I believe she'd just continue it, if not, ramp it up a few notches.
It's not the mass firings themselves that is at question... it's the reappointing. Congress is supposed to approve all new appointees, but there is a new clause recently passed that allows the president to "temporarily" appoint someone new indefinitely, effectively removing Congress oversight.
In this day and age, any worthwhile professional web developer will go through cross browser compatibility. Small time developers, though, will likely have difficulty supporting browsers on an OS other than their own simply through a financial limitation. It took me a long time to be able to afford a Mac Mini.
Personally, I use Drupal to run my sites. Even though the content is stored in a database, and the site is run on PHP, I still have hand written my template files.
Sometimes, it's more efficient to go back to the basics:) I just created my first static site in three years the other day. It's a four page site, and the owner knows HTML rather well. It actually would have been more complicated for him to learn how to use Drupal to change the text on the site than it would be for him to edit the HTML pages directly.
And thats where a close integration with CSS comes in handy. The amount of HTML tags I needed were very minimal, and all of the "cool dodads" were created through merely CSS classes (like rounded corners). That way, the owner will likely make less mistakes while editing - quite the contrast from keeping track of a bunch of TR and TD tags!
Really? Thats considered old fashion? I figured everyone these days hand coded their HTML with close integration with CSS, because thats the only way you can really ensure a minimal amount of code, cross browser compatibility, good SEO, and ease of updates.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem to matter all that much if you can't see the identity of the bidder. Isn't it pretty trivial to have some small network of people that agree to shill bid for each other?
I was trying to buy a particular item, and bid on several different auctions of it, but kept losing to the same two users. I kept changing my mind of how much I wanted it, and actually kept lowering my max bid for each auction. Now, despite that these two users won the 5 previous auctions, they continued to bid on my auctions. I started to get suspicious, but finally noticed something was wrong when there were two other auctions for the same product from the same seller, and they weren't getting any bids.
I finally retracted my bid for suspicion of shill bidding. I wouldn't have noticed there was a problem if I hadn't been able to view their usernames.
For some situations, what you suggest will work (I'm doing that myself, actually).
The problem, though, is that it takes a few years to be able to afford the big catastrophe things. The GP mentioned in another post that his son needed open heart surgery for $100,000. Thats not something he could have afforded through investing $1000 a month in semi-liquid accounts by that time.
Even if he had carefully planned to ensure he had enough money for fully supporting a family through health savings, it would have been difficult to predict and prepare for having a special needs child with heart problems.
But, lets bring it back to my situation - I'm a young, generally healthy freelancer who cannot afford health insurance. Instead of scraping together pennies to afford a whopping $500+ a month insurance bill (because I have to pre-pay for a potential child I could have), I decided to go into health savings. If I remain healthy, I'll have money for investments and retirement. If I'm not, then at least I'll put the money to good use.
But, of course, problems arise. I suffer from depression, and can't afford to continue seeing my therapist, let alone any medication. I dropped out of school due to depression, and subsequently lost my health insurance. Figures. Due to my erratic depression attacks, I can't hold a 9-5 job, and make due freelancing so I can give myself "mental health days" whenever they are needed.
I figured out how to manage my own problems, and now my partner has an inner ear problem. We can't even hope to afford a doctor's visit, so he remains with pain and ringing. And we hope.. well.. maybe next year we'll have money so we can get that checked up.
That is, if a doctor will see us without insurance. Many refuse to accept patients without insurance. I called around inquiring for services and they inevitably ask, "What health insurance do you have?" the immediate response to having none is always, "We're not accepting new patients. Sorry." Hmmmm.... why would they wait to tell me that only after they find out about my insurance status?
You never use cash? Not for getting a haircut? Buying a newspaper? Buying a coffee? Buying a bus ticket? How about buying a beer in a bar - do you pass your card to be swiped for each drink you purchase?
... Yes. The only time I ever have cash is when someone gives it to me. Then I promptly deposit it in the bank.
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A lot of you are completely missing the value of someone who is an expert with HTML and CSS.
I call these people "Front-end developers" and their skill set can range from from HTML and CSS, to Javascript expertise and the ability to integrate their work into the system themselves. Cross browser compatibility and clean, extensible, maintainable work is an extremely valuable skill set.
And a skillset that many regular 'ole web developers just don't have. My previous company had no clue of the value of a good front-end developer and just figured they could do it all themselves. They then had, literally, 50% of their bug database filled with front-end related issues. Just because you can write awesome algorithms, and a content management system from scratch doesn't mean you can also "do" HTML, CSS and Javascript.
For my current project, I am specifically looking for a front-end developer. We have plenty of people to code, and a good design. But if I have to spend anymore time fixing IE bugs and trying to make the "perfect" WYSIWYG editor I'm going to start pulling my hair out. The front-end developer I am looking for would not be treated any differently from the rest of my team. They are a developer who focuses on front-end issues.
A front-end developer is not a designer. A "Web designer" is a designer who specializes in web as a medium. Some designers are capable enough to produce very good HTML, CSS and Javascript... most, however, should try to not leave their primary skillset because they suck balls as developers. Quite frankly, the personality type that would make one a good designer simultaneously makes them really shitty developers.
A similar thing happened to me, but where someone with my name from my home town was in a newspaper article talking about how she did drugs, had children, and was trying to find her way in this world.
Flood the market by telling everyone and anyone who you are. Create a website with your name as the domain name, and talk about yourself or interests. If you're a developer, make it a developer blog talking about the things you've contributed and discovered. Ensure the sites you develop have good SEO, like by putting your name in the title, and an h1 tag at the top of the HTML document with your name in it.
If you have multiple varied interests, create a website of your work for each one and link to each other. Join other sites and create profiles using your real name, and interlink each other.
Eventually you'll end up showing Google that your name means you, and not that other guy.
The theory I have had is that autism is a genetic trait. I see it woefully common that people with severe problems are children of one or both parents who had only marginal problems.
I think the rise in autism, then, is 1) increased social acceptance of differences, 2) changes in "mating patterns", 3) the ease of finding like-minded individuals.
I'm honestly shocked that his list for web CMS options leaves out Drupal in favour of Alfresco and OpenCMS. Especially when he mentions that OpenCMS merely has promise to be great. Well, Drupal is already great.
Drupal has been making such great waves, that I haven't had to advertise my Drupal services for the last two and a half years. Potential clients just come directly to me specifically requesting Drupal.
As a web developer, the open source CMS I use *is* my livelihood. I contribute a small amount, and everyone else contributes a small amount. We're all helping each other make the web a better place.
Perhaps it is analogous to unions - we all pitch in a little more so we can take advantage of working as a team.
I learned of this bug late last night and confirmed it. This morning I was prompted for an update which fixed the bug. Updates, BTW, are extremely easy to install.
Your question of "how quickly" was answered: Pretty damn fast, actually.
"the look alike" phenomenon is from poor front end developers who won't put in the energy for theming. My website is built in Drupal, and doesn't look like any other Drupal site out there.
No one should lose 100% of their life savings due to one stock going wonky. If that's true, they're dumbasses for not diversifying.
My great aunt died of cancer caused by asbestos exposure. She was only exposed to it through her husband - her husband had preventative treatment, but she did not because they didn't realize she could be exposed through the residue left on his clothing.
From my experience with watching how the companies I work for treat patents, they aren't used offensively. They are used to:
A) Show proof of innovation to venture capitalists, stock holders and management
B) Ensure they will have the right to use that process, so some other guy won't use a patent offensively against them.
I would say the patent you're discussing falls under A.
However, that certainly doesn't stop a patent troll from buying the company who has the patent and then using it offensively.
ha, no, certainly not. I for one have been using it as my main CMS since 2004.
Hacking a bunch of new and modified functionality it a CMS like Drupal is a PITA.
With Drupal's modular framework, and abstracted theme layer, it makes it much less of a PITA to add new and modified functionality.With the rate at which content was getting taken down, I thought that this was actually true.
I've been hitting my limit regularly for the past few weeks, remaining at around 95% capacity. It now got raised to 3138mb, giving me 87% :D
I started using gmail in 2004, and today have over 45k conversations. I have not been using it for any sort of storage. I just simply get a lot of email.
Illegal? I've never heard of that before, but damn, I'd be thrilled if it were.
I switched from private school to public school for middle school. The private school had accelerated math, but didn't teach us French. The public school, on the other hand, had average math and had already been teaching French for two years. I simply could not catch up to two years of French, so after failing it miserably, they switched me out of the class.
But in order to accommodate me switching out of the class, I also had to switch out of every other class due to scheduling constraints. At first I had no idea that the other classes were different levels, but I quickly realized that I was just put into all the idiot classes.
I was flabbergasted. I mean, yes, I did feel better about myself because I wasn't in a class where I was failing miserably anymore, but now I had become massively bored because I was completing all the work in a fraction of the speed all my new classmates could. I was getting A's without a smidgen of effort. I was doing now the same work for the third time (first in private school, then in the accelerated classes, and now once again in the slow classes).
I was miserable and angry. My teachers attempted to mitigate my anger by making me the official class tutor. Once I figured out that scheduling constraints made it impossible to be in different levels for each subject, I confronted my math teacher. I asked her point blank if I was in this class only because I couldn't take French. Her eyes widened with this pained look on her face, "No, thats not true," she gingerly told me. "Then why is it that even though I was getting A's in the previous math class, I was placed in this one? I am tutoring half the people in this class! Shouldn't I be put in the higher level?" Her face just drained of color and she didn't say a word.
Subsequently, I was behind in high school and had to catch up. All because I didn't know French.
I used to be pretty neutral regarding Hillary Clinton, leaning towards a bit supportive because, hell, it'd be cool if we finally had a woman president.
But now I hope she doesn't get elected. I feel as though she is too pro-regulation and "protect the children" oriented. I don't like how she's been handling the gaming issues of the last few years, such as Hot Coffee. I want our government to leave us alone and stop this "protect the children" bullshit, and I believe she'd just continue it, if not, ramp it up a few notches.
Theres now a module to have a wiki-text filter for Drupal, so if you want to format text like usuale wikis, just install that module.
It's not the mass firings themselves that is at question... it's the reappointing. Congress is supposed to approve all new appointees, but there is a new clause recently passed that allows the president to "temporarily" appoint someone new indefinitely, effectively removing Congress oversight.
In this day and age, any worthwhile professional web developer will go through cross browser compatibility. Small time developers, though, will likely have difficulty supporting browsers on an OS other than their own simply through a financial limitation. It took me a long time to be able to afford a Mac Mini.
Personally, I use Drupal to run my sites. Even though the content is stored in a database, and the site is run on PHP, I still have hand written my template files.
:) I just created my first static site in three years the other day. It's a four page site, and the owner knows HTML rather well. It actually would have been more complicated for him to learn how to use Drupal to change the text on the site than it would be for him to edit the HTML pages directly.
Sometimes, it's more efficient to go back to the basics
And thats where a close integration with CSS comes in handy. The amount of HTML tags I needed were very minimal, and all of the "cool dodads" were created through merely CSS classes (like rounded corners). That way, the owner will likely make less mistakes while editing - quite the contrast from keeping track of a bunch of TR and TD tags!
Really? Thats considered old fashion? I figured everyone these days hand coded their HTML with close integration with CSS, because thats the only way you can really ensure a minimal amount of code, cross browser compatibility, good SEO, and ease of updates.
I would hope that diff documentation would show that it was a pure evolution rather than a code insert.
I was trying to buy a particular item, and bid on several different auctions of it, but kept losing to the same two users. I kept changing my mind of how much I wanted it, and actually kept lowering my max bid for each auction. Now, despite that these two users won the 5 previous auctions, they continued to bid on my auctions. I started to get suspicious, but finally noticed something was wrong when there were two other auctions for the same product from the same seller, and they weren't getting any bids.
I finally retracted my bid for suspicion of shill bidding. I wouldn't have noticed there was a problem if I hadn't been able to view their usernames.
For some situations, what you suggest will work (I'm doing that myself, actually).
The problem, though, is that it takes a few years to be able to afford the big catastrophe things. The GP mentioned in another post that his son needed open heart surgery for $100,000. Thats not something he could have afforded through investing $1000 a month in semi-liquid accounts by that time.
Even if he had carefully planned to ensure he had enough money for fully supporting a family through health savings, it would have been difficult to predict and prepare for having a special needs child with heart problems.
But, lets bring it back to my situation - I'm a young, generally healthy freelancer who cannot afford health insurance. Instead of scraping together pennies to afford a whopping $500+ a month insurance bill (because I have to pre-pay for a potential child I could have), I decided to go into health savings. If I remain healthy, I'll have money for investments and retirement. If I'm not, then at least I'll put the money to good use.
But, of course, problems arise. I suffer from depression, and can't afford to continue seeing my therapist, let alone any medication. I dropped out of school due to depression, and subsequently lost my health insurance. Figures. Due to my erratic depression attacks, I can't hold a 9-5 job, and make due freelancing so I can give myself "mental health days" whenever they are needed.
I figured out how to manage my own problems, and now my partner has an inner ear problem. We can't even hope to afford a doctor's visit, so he remains with pain and ringing. And we hope.. well.. maybe next year we'll have money so we can get that checked up.
That is, if a doctor will see us without insurance. Many refuse to accept patients without insurance. I called around inquiring for services and they inevitably ask, "What health insurance do you have?" the immediate response to having none is always, "We're not accepting new patients. Sorry." Hmmmm.... why would they wait to tell me that only after they find out about my insurance status?