Good cover letter writing tips by smashingmagazine.com

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I think everyone has heard or been part of a “What is an example of a good cover letter” before and unless your a recruiter or something it may not be completely obvious.

Today was i was going along my daily routine looking at some blogs i stumbled upon this article at smashingmagazine.com about writing a good cover letter. This article is of particular interest because it has feedback directly from companies that advertise on major web oriented job sites like krop.com, Continue reading

Blogging a real career in 2010

The last thing that you may hear when you think of blogging is, “Hmmmm this could actually be a career.”  According to the reliable wikipedia a blog is defined as,

A blog (a contraction of the term “web log“)[1] is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.

So essentially is the act (continuous) of of creating new content and adding to your weblog with frequent posts. Now with that said there are a couple of questions that arise:

  1. What does “Frequent” entail?
  2. Why does how frequent i write matter? Continue reading

Free Premium quality WordPress Podcasting Plugin

As another way to go grow and offer different types of media to keep your blog going. Podcasting is a definite way to add more dynamic content, and now you can with the free, premium quality WordPress Podcasting Plugin.

The project was initially developed by Ronald Heft over at  but it is now maintained by TSG. I think that there are currently two really good and free choices when it comes to adding multi-media content to your site, with the TSG podcasting plugin being one and the Blubrry Powerpress Podcast Plugin. Unfortunately it seems that the old podpress plugin that used to be an option isnt really going to be going any further. Continue reading

WordPress Elastic themes generator from GSOC 09 is intriguing

A few days ago (Sunday 21st march) on the WordPress facebook blog they released this post about the Google Summer of code (GSOC)and WordPress 3.0 sneek peeks. The Official release by WordPress where there are a couple of announcements, but the one of particular interest that was from the GSOC 09 by Daryl Koopersmith, and is called Elastic Themes.

The WordPress elastic themes generator

The generator can best be desribed as, Continue reading

The Seattle Ruby on Rails Developers Meetup Group Weekly Meetup

photoThe Seattle Ruby on Rails Developers Meetup Group Our weekly events are very informal and non-presentational. It's a good place to come hang out if you have questions about something specific or if you want a smart group of railers to hang with while you code. We meet in the same place and at the same time as the Seattle Ruby Brigade, another group of really smart railers. And although many of the members of the Ruby Brigade aren't actualy members of our meetup.com group, they're all super nice and all are welcome. There are a lot of top tier ruby experts in the Ruby Brigade, and most are willing to help out and share. Continue reading

jQuery 3-D plugin jParallax

So as i was working on getting the site updated and ready, i was going through some links and just checking out some resources. Finally i stumbled upon, what may be for me the most exciting Jquery plugin in recent memory!!!

What could be so great? well it is this jQuery plugin called the jParallax. I think to really understand its best to answer the age old questions: Who, What, Why, Where, How, When. Continue reading

jQuery & URL parameters

If you have ever had to work with PHP the luxury of becoming used to simple things like request parameter processing can be lost. Sometimes you have no alternative if you are working with a simple HTML file.

Hence comes in this nifty little jquery plugin, it allows you to grab parameters from the url and then process them accordingly. One way that this could be useful is if you wanted to detect a page state or to display or hide an element depending on the state.

You can download the plugin here and its also fairly light too which is good.

Here is an example of the source, its relatively short so i am posting it here and you can give it a try: Continue reading