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Under 9000 and Starting Up

Most college seniors are sweating now due to the economic downturn: How am I going to find a job? But maybe there’s also a bright side to all of this. As bad as it might seem to do a startup, right now might be the time to do so. You might be thinking, “What? Crazy!” [...]

Design Coding by SEO Rapper

The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper). lol, word.

VB GUI Interface on CSI New York

There are TV doctors, lawyers, and businessmen. What about all the engineers? Well here’s a funny clip from CSI New York. Either the writers had no idea what they are talking about or they put in for some laughs.

“I’ll create a GUI interface using Visual Basic. See if I can track an IP out of [...]

CakePHP vs. Ruby on Rails

I can’t decide whether or not to just go with Ruby on Rails, or stick with CakePHP. Working off a framework is important nowadays. It is very hard to maintain a large project at startup without a proper Model View Controller (MVC) setup.
Here are some of my quick thoughts:

I like PHP because I am [...]

Back to Firefox, on SEO and Hacker News

I’ve recently changed back to FireFox to my default browser preference because of its invaluable extensions (sorry Safari). One extension that I use is an SEO tool. One of the features of this extension is that it highlights in red the a href links that have the nofollow attribute defined. Setting a nofollow tag basically [...]

Cloud Computing for Students

Google and IBM have teamed up to provide data centers to help students and researchers write software for large-scale applications. This is a large push for colleges to emphasize the needs of parallel computing; it is a relatively new field not taught traditionally at the undergrad level. In addition, the number of computer science majors [...]

Chinese to English Annotations

A while ago, I made a tool that annotates Chinese to English. The Chinese language is particularly hard because the characters are not phonetic. In order to read, you must memorize each character one by one. I just wanted a simple program that shows me the pronounications, and many websites are too bloated.
With China always [...]

Ajax Web Developer: $240k per year… with only one catch

Anyone looking for a job? Just read this on Ajaxian:
We recently got pinged about a job request that we just had to post about
If you like coding in Ajax, and know how to shoot a gun, this could be for you.
Title: Web Developer
Salary: $200K plus DOE
Taxes: No Federal taxes taken out for the [...]