I spend more time writing on forums than on this blog, so I’m going to start sharing the more interesting threads I participate in here as well. WebDesignofMaine: Google is number 1. I think Google is going to take over the world. Think about where we are as a civilization, the information age, and who [...]
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:
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?
Looks like I won’t be packing up and moving out to California in April; Google turned me down for the job I applied to. Maybe that second interviewer‘s questioning really did mean they wanted a C coder despite the job description listing C++.
It began with Google. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the company’s founders, decided to build a search engine which didn’t rank pages primarily by keyword density like their competition. Early search engines were easy to fool — fill your page with the same phrase over and over and you’d appear near the top of search [...]
The end of the year is the perfect time to stop and take a “big picture” look at just how much I’ve spent on search advertising, what that money has bought me, and what changes I should make in the new year. While I purchase advertising for my websites from many search engines, ad networks [...]
I’ve just finished an hour and a half on the phone doing two interviews for a software engineer intern position at Google. Those were definitely the most interesting, challenging and enjoyable job interviews I’ve ever done.
There have been four phases to the evolution of my PHP development environment. First, I used notepad, FTP and a shared hosting account. WS_FTP to be exact, made by IPSwitch which once sent me a free t-shirt for sending in a testimonial for their website. Once I took on a job working on a PHP [...]
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.
