Posts made in January 2007
I’ve been tagged, which means I have to share 5 things most people don’t know about me. Since I’ve only resumed blogging about a month and a half ago, that’s pretty much everything, so here goes:
A lot of people in technology fields consider themselves or strive to be entrepreneurs — to work for themselves, seeking out opportunities to create new value and profit. They’re self-motivated hard workers trying to grow businesses and offer new products and services. There are thousands of web designers and developers out there, many still in [...]
I just got a voice mail and e-mail from one of the Microsoft recruiters I interviewed with last week letting me know I have a job. They’re hiring me as an Application Developer. I’ll be writing both Windows and web applications with C#/ASP.NET and SQL server.
Agile processes, are they killing our children? A cynically comical look at how software life cycles are really done.. among other things. Thanks to dagfinn at SitePoint for that link.
I finally had the last of this round of interviews — my first attempt to find a coop job for April through September to finish the work experience requirement of my degree at Drexel. I met with two really nice people from Microsoft in the morning. First, a recruiter for the IT department that just [...]
Step-by-step: From notes to working screen. The first draft of the new dashboard — the first report shown when viewing a site’s stats in W3Counter 4.
Where the Hell is Matt? Another YouTube viral marketing video. Did you notice the Stride gum logo appear several times? Would you have noticed it if I didn’t mention it?
The change in the mug on my desk and in my car added up to a bit more than expected. Apparently Coinstar machines now count dollar coins as well.
I try to decide what reports W3Counter should include and how they should be presented by formulating questions a website owner might pose about their visitors. W3Counter now answers two new questions I often ask about my own sites — “Who’s started linking to me today?” and “What new searches am I showing up for [...]
It’s only been three days since I put out my WordPress Review Site Plugin and it’s been viewed hundreds of times. I’ve already been shown more than half a dozen sites running on it. It’s now been updated to version 1.1 sporting much easier installation and a couple new features. WP-DG-Review-Site now auto-embeds the ratings [...]
