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04.26.08CakePHP vs. Ruby on Rails
ProgrammingI 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 more familiar with it, and don't have the time learn a completely new language. Many libraries I use are written in PHP; it would seem like a big hassle to find all the tools again for Ruby. It does seem like the ...
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04.25.08Back to Firefox, on SEO and Hacker News
ProgrammingI'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 tells a Google crawlers to not crawl through pass credit through that link. One specific use case is in Wordpress comments, where nofollow tags are set to the commentator's url. This prevents spammers from simply commenting for PageRank. Installing this SEO tool gives me ...
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10.08.07Cloud Computing for Students
College, ProgrammingGoogle 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 have been on the decline and "industry executives and computer scientists say a shortage of skills and talent could limit future growth." Randal E. Bryant, dean of the computer science school at Carnegie Mellon University, states ...
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10.05.07Chinese to English Annotations
ProgrammingA 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 in the news, I figured I'll share the site. Here is the link to my Chinese to English Annotater. Note that it is not a translator. That is an entirely different problem, which requires much much much harder algorithms....
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07.26.07Ajax Web Developer: $240k per year… with only one catch
ProgrammingAnyone 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 contractors that accept a 12 month. (6 month contractors will have taxes taken out) Location: Iraq Start date: ASAP with 2 weeks training (one in Washington DC and another in Ft. Bening GA) # of Openings: 1 Summary:A principal Department of Defense agency is looking for programmers, developers or ...
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Writer: Jeff Wang. I am currently a student at UC Berkeley, majoring in Computer Science. Most posts will be dedicated to young entreprenuers.
My previous work experience include Microsoft and TechCrunch. I am an aspiring entrepreneur.
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