Posts made in December 2006

Interview with SAP

I just got back from my interview at SAP America. SAP is the world’s third largest software company with about 38,000 employees and 36,000 customers. I was interviewing for a paid 6-month internship as an Application Developer for their SAP Enterprise Portal group.


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Computing MySQL Queries Per Second

I need an excuse to test out the code highlighting plugin I just installed here, so I’ll share how I display the “visits per second” in the Random Statistics box in the sidebar of this site. The visits per second being processed by W3Counter is computed by dividing the queries per second the database is [...]


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The Pixelotto Experiment

This topic seems to be stirring up a lot of emotion on a couple forums I frequent. Pixelotto is the successor to the Million Dollar Homepage, the “pixel advertising” success of Alex Tew which attracted huge media attention and over a million dollars in advertising sales. The idea is simple – the site consists mainly [...]


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Upcoming Job Interviews

It’s time for me to look for a job for my third and final required coop. I need 18 total months of work experience as part of my degree requirements at Drexel University. I’ve applied to paid jobs at SAP, Microsoft and Google. All three have responded with interview offers.


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Tempted to test higher prices

December’s usually a really good month for my sales, so I’ll let it pass before doing anything. As I wrote earlier, I relaunched VisitorBoost.com and TargetedVisitors.info in November with, aside from all new code behind the sites, new pricing. As my costs have risen since I set my initial prices in 2004, due to higher [...]


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New Code Finds CC Fraud Easily

Check out the risk section when viewing this order through my administration area:


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