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Reasons why you don't apply to some Companies

Just a note, this is just a joke. So for some companies, I would ask you to evaluate me first not base your judgement for hiring me in this post. :) Recently, I planned on getting another job. This time with programming languages I'm not familiar with. Just to get my hands on. Something like Python or Ruby, or JS and NoSQL. You know what I mean. Then came, job posts at some Ads. Recruiters really think they are smart. They're not even reviewing what they're posting and not getting consultation from experts offering a job. For example SEO Experts (20k to 30k) with GREAT “DAYTIME” CAREER OPPORTUNITIES A NEW COMPANY soon to expand OPERATIONS in CEBU!!! I'm sure 30k is not that great. And what's with the DAYTIME? Also Perfect Worklife Balance: “Daytime Work” and Guaranteed 5 day work week only Easy to Manage Accounts Excellent Compensation based on expertise, we are only looking for top talent and pay accordingly Performance and Attendance bonuses...

Lithium first glimpse

I decided to review my PHP and now I’m interested with the Lithium project. I wanted to get my hands on it just to see what it can do and what are the good stuff in it. Lithium by the way is a PHP web framework, it’s RAD. If you don’t know what a PHP web framework is, I don’t think I can help you. But a Google with the topic can result to many useful resources. I almost forgot most of my PHP background because it’s been 2 years since I coded it. And it was with 4.3 and Oracle. I’m not too sure about what to do next. Instead of installing everything from scratch, I decided to install XAMPP . It’s easy and good stuff (I think). Unlike before, installing PHP and Apache, make Apache recorgnized PHP, add a module to it, install MySQL… You know what I mean. It’s a hassle. But with XAMPP, it’s just a single install and everything is in there. Of course, this doesn’t help if you’re a geek and pretend to know everything and installing everything by hand makes you happy. But for me, it’s fine...

Not fashionable enough to be arrested

 I’ve been playing with .Net on one of my projects now and we’re using C#. Other teams are in the enterprise. Or the so called Java. You know what I mean, “the IMPLS”. Now I’m diverting. Anyway, Java people on the other teams have check styles. Ok, let’s just call them jTeam for now. Checking styles are one way to set rules on your codes. Some people usually think it’s useless but I have my liking to it. I think codes should be beautiful as oppose to fanciness. I don’t like fancy, simple is useful and should be at least beautiful. What I mean with beautiful is that code shouldn’t be messy. One example is spacing. Having code like x = y+z; and in another code there’s z=y + x * 2; There’s not much of a problem here. It’s just that the spacing is inconsistent. And I think it shouldn’t be that way. I think it’s irritating to look at. Checking all of these inconsistencies in about 2000 lines of code is awful. Horrible if you’ve got tens of thousands of lines or hundreds. But do not ...