I just finished up a career move and have to say that where you're at matters a great deal in terms of "what's hot".
For instance I was working as a developer for an advertising company doing PHP, Perl, Linux, Javascript, etc where I live now. When that job dried up I needed to find work in my area but 90% of what's going on in Baton Rouge is in the Microsoft environment. I couldn't find a job for quite a while because I didn't have 2+ years of Microsoft development.
I got plenty of job offers out of state(for some reason Tampa Florida companies like my resume) but nobody around here.
So I purchased a few.NET 2.0 books and learned enough to talk my way into a position. Working with Microsoft development is ridiculously easy for me. I can't believe I had a hard time finding a position because I'd done non-Microsoft development but oh well.
Location is extremely important. I'd definitely take a look at what's going on where you want to live before you take a career focus. Now that I've been working with.NET I feel pretty secure that I could jump from opportunity to opportunity if I needed to.
A DMB I worked with a few years back was trying some sort of fancy trick working on the production database. Well he did something wrong then realized he did it wrong and all you could here was "fuuuuuuuuuuuck". The poor guy was beet red and shaking when I walked over.
Couldn't get the development database to work for the production. Couldn't get the backups to come up. I think he stayed up for like 2 days. In the end we ended up replicating the original installation. I have no idea why the development setup wouldn't go over.
The company owner put some absurd price tag on the amount of money he thought it cost him. Something like $250,000. I thought that was strange since all he lost was stats that were never used.
I worked for an online advertising company for a number of years. Years back when we were trying to figure out how to make more money using the search engines we figured out the now well known tactic of buying up domains that expired and putting up our own content. The promotional work had already been done for us so we wrote a suite of programs to evaluate soon to expire domains and started scooping them up. This was before it got to be such big business so we could pick them up for $5 each. We picked up about 10,000 domains belonging to people who let their registration lapse.
Well people start calling us threatening to sue because we were cybersquatting.(usually it started off with "stealing" then they did a little research and found the buzz word "cybersquatting") We would tell them "sorry it's ours" until one day a guys says "I'll give you $5,000" today for the domain. So we started offering them up for sale even though our initial reason for the purchase was ads and search engine manipulation.
We got a few lawsuits, nothing ever happened.
As for new registrations tough luck if you don't get your choice domains. Just because your letters run together the same way some other guys do doesn't mean it's rightfully yours.
Defaming an entity actively would understandably draw legal action for that offense but why should the entity being defamed get ownership of the domain for that?
As far as pricing is concerned who's to say what a domain's worth to it's owner? My company paid me to write and update software, analysts to sit there and find domains and then eventually a small registration cost. After registration there was hosting, research for parked content pages, etc.(not to mention answering phone calls of pissed off former owners) Just because the end registration cost was small didn't mean they hadn't invested a good deal of money developing the process to uncover specific domain criteria for purchase.
I've just rambled my way into figuring out what point I wanted to make in this post....
When someone searches for a search engine at your search engine why not suggest that they just stay where they are? Joe User might not realize he's at a search engine since Yahoo comes off as a portal first and search engine second.
I wonder if Yahoo could be sued if Yahoo were to return advertising results with a link to Yahoo when a user searched the YPN for Google? They don't show any ads as it is? Shouldn't there at least be some SEO spam in there?
Couldn't he just take the trip, not pay the taxes and then pay the price later on? Let them lean on you and pay it off man but don't pass on what could possibly be a once in the life time trip to space.
Didn't I see a guy holding a rabbit hostage and taking paypal donations? he got so much publicity from the stunt that he made savetoby.com into a very valuable domain name. This guy could design a similar stunt around his "I'm going so throw me in jail for taxes" angle
I'm going through a tough employment spot myself. I've been doing PHP/Perl/Javascript stuff for a web advertising company for the previous 5 years. Thats come and gone and I've put my name out there for hire. Everyone in my area is doing their online development in.NET so its either switch or move out of state.
So I've started interviewing but my.NET experience has been strictly learning for personal gain. I got the impression that despite my experience they still see a developer with less than 1 year of experience instead of a developer with 5 years of experience. I've kept up with other concepts and development environments but despite all that they're still looking at me as someone not developing in.NET professionally.
So I have to bulk up on my knowledge, practice and sell them the fact that I understand all the core aspects of software development and will quickly get familiar with the tools they're using. I've purchased a over a half dozen books on.NET development, studied and started developing in the environment. I'll get in someplace as a developer, learn faster than my new peers, work harder than my new peers and move up the ladder.
sell yourself on your positives and work on everything else.
For someone who's just getting into doing.NET development full time and coming from a PHP based development environment I'm really happy to see it. Nothing worse than my old employer coming at me with a different AJAX suite every week. If its as easy as everything else I've done with ASP.NET then it'll be a wonderful treat.
If virus creation were rewarded in order to further explore options for improving software then perhaps improved development would increase. Draw up a set of rules and reward monetarily those who can create the most effective exploits of other "secure" software.
Generally acceptable to develop virus software if you're competing in a contest. Sounds so simple its probably been done already and I haven't heard about it.
For the important stuff that you hardly ever have to look at? We all have an attic doesn't NASA have an attic they can put stuff in?
Someone probably brought them home 20 years ago for movie night then died of old age. They're in someones attic. I suggest we check every attic of every NASA employee for the past 20 years.
Maybe go garage sale hunting?
"The transplanted white blood cells not only killed existing cancers, but also protected normal mice from what should have been lethal doses of highly aggressive new cancers. "
So we need to find the possible human running around who has the same genetic WBC born abilities of these mice? Maybe start injecting cancer patients with WBC's of other random ultra healthy humans until we find similar effects? If it doesn't cause ill side effects then I don't see why not try?
I think people will watch it. Stargate Atlantis is pretty weak but I still watch it because of its connection to the original series. That John Doe series they're running is weak.
They need to bring back Serenity/Firefly
They made Doom already so its time for the Duke Nukem. Really at the rate they're going they could cast the movie, make the movie and relase both at the same time.
Alot of times you see companies patent broad things, don't use them and then show up with a hand out but MercExchange looked to be trying to use their ideas, met with Ebay and then Ebay took their from ideas and ran with them.
At least thats what I got from this article which is an interview with the guy who owns MercExchange
I wasn't aware that people were running geothermal power stations but I guess I don't spend quite enough time reading popular science or watching Discovery. Up into this article I thought Geothermal energy use was just something they did on one Stargate Atlantis episode. *sigh* I need to catch up.
After hundreds of years of compertition the Brits and the French are working together in improving their Navies? Talk about setting your pride aside for the sake of strength. The French must really be getting sick of being second rate naval powers.
This must be part of the Projet de loi de programmation militaire 2003-2008
So we don't have to hear any more arguing over terminology and research as its being reported from the field. Then we can put aside all the religious arguments, segmented scientists on theories and update how "where we came from" is taught in school.
So it takes us three days max to find out if the Moon mission succeeds vs. 6 months to Mars after putting 10 years+ into setting it up? How is it more forgiving? If you're screwed you're screwed regardless if you fail at the max time.
Should say "Ultimately we just want to cut the Chinese off at the Moon being that'll be their next stop."
The state of Internet advertising isn't great because now people are worried about fraud from Google & Yahoo. Especially with Google having to make that settlement for click fraud recently. Even before that there has been increasing chatter about cost per action advertising as opposed to cost per click/views. People want something new, they're looking for it and that research is showing in more and more news articles coming out about tracking, etc.
Tracing people through a webpage isn't new. I can't remember the exact name of the software but a piece of live help software I've seen allowed you to track people's movements through your site in real time. People have been using these metrics for years. I haven't heard or used the name Doubleclick in years?
I learned more about OOP in my Java programming courses at LSU than I did in any other class I had while I was there. It was just cleaner than any other programming language I learned in and not near as hard for me to debug as C.
Visual Basic was an experience and I felt I didn't learn much. I noticed that the other students in the class learned primarily just how to be lazy through use of VB. It promoted programming that was lazy, clunky and bad interfaces.(However I haven't programmed in VB since 2002.)
I wonder why they don't initially teach students control structures, functions, data structures etc. on something like PERL at first since its so much easier to debug or PHP since it can be done from most any computer and works with web pages easily. Then again I'm not a teacher so I suppose there's a perfectly good reason for doing what they do.
That a person like this Trading Standards official in question is put in a position to make decisions and communicate with IT companies such as Mozilla. You would think that they'd at least hire people with some knowledge on the subject or have their people educated on the subject?
Perhaps they should make reading Slashdot.org for a half hour daily mandatory for all employees?
Slashdot Mirror
Have dem der keyboard warriors brought up on assault charges. Bet they'll shut up quick.
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For instance I was working as a developer for an advertising company doing PHP, Perl, Linux, Javascript, etc where I live now. When that job dried up I needed to find work in my area but 90% of what's going on in Baton Rouge is in the Microsoft environment. I couldn't find a job for quite a while because I didn't have 2+ years of Microsoft development.
I got plenty of job offers out of state(for some reason Tampa Florida companies like my resume) but nobody around here.
So I purchased a few .NET 2.0 books and learned enough to talk my way into a position. Working with Microsoft development is ridiculously easy for me. I can't believe I had a hard time finding a position because I'd done non-Microsoft development but oh well.
Location is extremely important. I'd definitely take a look at what's going on where you want to live before you take a career focus. Now that I've been working with .NET I feel pretty secure that I could jump from opportunity to opportunity if I needed to.
A DMB I worked with a few years back was trying some sort of fancy trick working on the production database. Well he did something wrong then realized he did it wrong and all you could here was "fuuuuuuuuuuuck". The poor guy was beet red and shaking when I walked over. Couldn't get the development database to work for the production. Couldn't get the backups to come up. I think he stayed up for like 2 days. In the end we ended up replicating the original installation. I have no idea why the development setup wouldn't go over. The company owner put some absurd price tag on the amount of money he thought it cost him. Something like $250,000. I thought that was strange since all he lost was stats that were never used.
Well people start calling us threatening to sue because we were cybersquatting.(usually it started off with "stealing" then they did a little research and found the buzz word "cybersquatting") We would tell them "sorry it's ours" until one day a guys says "I'll give you $5,000" today for the domain. So we started offering them up for sale even though our initial reason for the purchase was ads and search engine manipulation.
We got a few lawsuits, nothing ever happened.
As for new registrations tough luck if you don't get your choice domains. Just because your letters run together the same way some other guys do doesn't mean it's rightfully yours.
Defaming an entity actively would understandably draw legal action for that offense but why should the entity being defamed get ownership of the domain for that?
As far as pricing is concerned who's to say what a domain's worth to it's owner? My company paid me to write and update software, analysts to sit there and find domains and then eventually a small registration cost. After registration there was hosting, research for parked content pages, etc.(not to mention answering phone calls of pissed off former owners) Just because the end registration cost was small didn't mean they hadn't invested a good deal of money developing the process to uncover specific domain criteria for purchase.
I've just rambled my way into figuring out what point I wanted to make in this post....
All your domains are belong to us!
When Brian purchased Jerry Garcia in a pouch.
I wonder if Yahoo could be sued if Yahoo were to return advertising results with a link to Yahoo when a user searched the YPN for Google? They don't show any ads as it is? Shouldn't there at least be some SEO spam in there?
Didn't I see a guy holding a rabbit hostage and taking paypal donations? he got so much publicity from the stunt that he made savetoby.com into a very valuable domain name. This guy could design a similar stunt around his "I'm going so throw me in jail for taxes" angle
I'm going through a tough employment spot myself. I've been doing PHP/Perl/Javascript stuff for a web advertising company for the previous 5 years. Thats come and gone and I've put my name out there for hire. Everyone in my area is doing their online development in .NET so its either switch or move out of state.
.NET experience has been strictly learning for personal gain. I got the impression that despite my experience they still see a developer with less than 1 year of experience instead of a developer with 5 years of experience. I've kept up with other concepts and development environments but despite all that they're still looking at me as someone not developing in .NET professionally.
.NET development, studied and started developing in the environment. I'll get in someplace as a developer, learn faster than my new peers, work harder than my new peers and move up the ladder.
So I've started interviewing but my
So I have to bulk up on my knowledge, practice and sell them the fact that I understand all the core aspects of software development and will quickly get familiar with the tools they're using. I've purchased a over a half dozen books on
sell yourself on your positives and work on everything else.
For someone who's just getting into doing .NET development full time and coming from a PHP based development environment I'm really happy to see it. Nothing worse than my old employer coming at me with a different AJAX suite every week. If its as easy as everything else I've done with ASP.NET then it'll be a wonderful treat.
If virus creation were rewarded in order to further explore options for improving software then perhaps improved development would increase. Draw up a set of rules and reward monetarily those who can create the most effective exploits of other "secure" software. Generally acceptable to develop virus software if you're competing in a contest. Sounds so simple its probably been done already and I haven't heard about it.
For the important stuff that you hardly ever have to look at? We all have an attic doesn't NASA have an attic they can put stuff in? Someone probably brought them home 20 years ago for movie night then died of old age. They're in someones attic. I suggest we check every attic of every NASA employee for the past 20 years. Maybe go garage sale hunting?
"The transplanted white blood cells not only killed existing cancers, but also protected normal mice from what should have been lethal doses of highly aggressive new cancers. " So we need to find the possible human running around who has the same genetic WBC born abilities of these mice? Maybe start injecting cancer patients with WBC's of other random ultra healthy humans until we find similar effects? If it doesn't cause ill side effects then I don't see why not try?
I think people will watch it. Stargate Atlantis is pretty weak but I still watch it because of its connection to the original series. That John Doe series they're running is weak. They need to bring back Serenity/Firefly
They made Doom already so its time for the Duke Nukem. Really at the rate they're going they could cast the movie, make the movie and relase both at the same time.
When you're right you're right. And you're right. ;)
At least thats what I got from this article which is an interview with the guy who owns MercExchange
http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y04/m09/i30/s0 1
I wasn't aware that people were running geothermal power stations but I guess I don't spend quite enough time reading popular science or watching Discovery. Up into this article I thought Geothermal energy use was just something they did on one Stargate Atlantis episode. *sigh* I need to catch up.
After hundreds of years of compertition the Brits and the French are working together in improving their Navies? Talk about setting your pride aside for the sake of strength. The French must really be getting sick of being second rate naval powers. This must be part of the Projet de loi de programmation militaire 2003-2008
So we don't have to hear any more arguing over terminology and research as its being reported from the field. Then we can put aside all the religious arguments, segmented scientists on theories and update how "where we came from" is taught in school.
So it takes us three days max to find out if the Moon mission succeeds vs. 6 months to Mars after putting 10 years+ into setting it up? How is it more forgiving? If you're screwed you're screwed regardless if you fail at the max time. Should say "Ultimately we just want to cut the Chinese off at the Moon being that'll be their next stop."
The state of Internet advertising isn't great because now people are worried about fraud from Google & Yahoo. Especially with Google having to make that settlement for click fraud recently. Even before that there has been increasing chatter about cost per action advertising as opposed to cost per click/views. People want something new, they're looking for it and that research is showing in more and more news articles coming out about tracking, etc. Tracing people through a webpage isn't new. I can't remember the exact name of the software but a piece of live help software I've seen allowed you to track people's movements through your site in real time. People have been using these metrics for years. I haven't heard or used the name Doubleclick in years?
I learned more about OOP in my Java programming courses at LSU than I did in any other class I had while I was there. It was just cleaner than any other programming language I learned in and not near as hard for me to debug as C. Visual Basic was an experience and I felt I didn't learn much. I noticed that the other students in the class learned primarily just how to be lazy through use of VB. It promoted programming that was lazy, clunky and bad interfaces.(However I haven't programmed in VB since 2002.) I wonder why they don't initially teach students control structures, functions, data structures etc. on something like PERL at first since its so much easier to debug or PHP since it can be done from most any computer and works with web pages easily. Then again I'm not a teacher so I suppose there's a perfectly good reason for doing what they do.
One of those books you purchase just because you may stumble upon an explanation to a problem you're not finding in your more robust guides.
That a person like this Trading Standards official in question is put in a position to make decisions and communicate with IT companies such as Mozilla. You would think that they'd at least hire people with some knowledge on the subject or have their people educated on the subject? Perhaps they should make reading Slashdot.org for a half hour daily mandatory for all employees?