How to get answers to your questions. Priceless: “Your first email needs to be professional. After we’ve established a relationship, sure, bypass that final grammar check, but I’m not the only who won’t take you seriously if you email me like ur on im omg can u help me???? how cum no 1 will hire me??? No way in a million years will I refer you to any of my industry contacts. r u kidding me???? Go buy a vowel and a clue.”
But being clueless is not always a bad thing …
Dillema. Would you embrace constraints, or go for job security? “Only one of these guys is doing the IT job, but success fails, and failure succeeds: the other guy is going to get more offers at higher salaries.”
Speaking of technologies that provide job security …
EJB’s 101 Damnations. I can’t believe someone went through the motions of listing all of them.
On the other hand …
RubyForge Gem. If you have a RubyForge project and releasing Gems, do yourself a favor and use this. It will handle the release and uploads for you. (And check out the other gems in that collection)
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Eran
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