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2 years ago
in Life experiences on Zac Bowling's Blog
Hi Zac,
In France, we use to say that the wheel turns...
I'm not as young as you do (Oh! God! Am I really saying this?!?) as I am 29 almost 30.
But I went over your own experience maybe even worse. As a quick fact sheet, I earn my first computer at 12 (back to 1989) which was at that time an Atari and I quickly entered in the development/graphics field. At 14, I used to program assembler for Atari and Amiga demos for some piracy groups. In 1994, I was then 17 and I worked with the Columbia university to attack some of their internal IP networks using BBS, FTP and Gopher accesses (this was the starting blocks of the known Internet).
I then entered in the Web Start Up industry and built several websites for some companies (most of them are not here anymore) and I was hired as CTO at the age of 21 for one of them.
2 years later, 2001, the bubble exploded and I was unemployed and I kept this way for 2 long years because I couldn't make myself coming back to a developer level after managing a team of 15 engineers where some of them were twice my age.
Life is hard and that's a real fact but everything is solved if you put the right effort and have patience.
If I can give you an advice, during these hard times, don't think about it too much as stress is the worst thing any person can feel.
And moreover it won't change a thing to your situation.
No, just visit some friends (don't go out, it costs money ;-)) make some sport outside while the weather allows you to (this is definitively true in France!!!) and do not hesitate to ask your friends for a hand: good friends are also those who support you when trouble comes.
My 2 cents for your cause ;-)
In France, we use to say that the wheel turns...
I'm not as young as you do (Oh! God! Am I really saying this?!?) as I am 29 almost 30.
But I went over your own experience maybe even worse. As a quick fact sheet, I earn my first computer at 12 (back to 1989) which was at that time an Atari and I quickly entered in the development/graphics field. At 14, I used to program assembler for Atari and Amiga demos for some piracy groups. In 1994, I was then 17 and I worked with the Columbia university to attack some of their internal IP networks using BBS, FTP and Gopher accesses (this was the starting blocks of the known Internet).
I then entered in the Web Start Up industry and built several websites for some companies (most of them are not here anymore) and I was hired as CTO at the age of 21 for one of them.
2 years later, 2001, the bubble exploded and I was unemployed and I kept this way for 2 long years because I couldn't make myself coming back to a developer level after managing a team of 15 engineers where some of them were twice my age.
Life is hard and that's a real fact but everything is solved if you put the right effort and have patience.
If I can give you an advice, during these hard times, don't think about it too much as stress is the worst thing any person can feel.
And moreover it won't change a thing to your situation.
No, just visit some friends (don't go out, it costs money ;-)) make some sport outside while the weather allows you to (this is definitively true in France!!!) and do not hesitate to ask your friends for a hand: good friends are also those who support you when trouble comes.
My 2 cents for your cause ;-)
3 years ago
in HR-XML, FlyVideo3000 Support, Mono turns 5 years old! on Zac Bowling's Blog
Just a quick addition on my previous comment regarding HR-XML.
Another huge topic for HR-XML consortium is how to handle culture specifics:
Basically, in some countries, some fields are mandatories while other aren't.
Therefore, the schemas can't easily provide restrictions such as mandatory fields without moving into local versions of each HR-XML schemas.
Another huge topic for HR-XML consortium is how to handle culture specifics:
Basically, in some countries, some fields are mandatories while other aren't.
Therefore, the schemas can't easily provide restrictions such as mandatory fields without moving into local versions of each HR-XML schemas.
3 years ago
in HR-XML, FlyVideo3000 Support, Mono turns 5 years old! on Zac Bowling's Blog
Hey Zac,
My company is a HR-XML certified member and quite funny you did this.
The thing is HR-XML is not promoting their schemas to the public area but rather to software publishers in the HR market so those companies have their products talking to each other using a standard set of definitions.
The only issue why they are not pushing HR-XML to be the standard candidate Resume structure is because of competencies management: there is today no standard reference library of skills shared commonly therefore, your resume can't be processed automatically by systems understanding HR-XML.
It still helps on structuring your resume in a standard way for presentation purposes.
That's one of the big issues commonly shared by Application 2 Application or Business 2 Business integration (using either web services or any other remoting capability): the lack of common references for huge business hierarchal datasets.
My company is a HR-XML certified member and quite funny you did this.
The thing is HR-XML is not promoting their schemas to the public area but rather to software publishers in the HR market so those companies have their products talking to each other using a standard set of definitions.
The only issue why they are not pushing HR-XML to be the standard candidate Resume structure is because of competencies management: there is today no standard reference library of skills shared commonly therefore, your resume can't be processed automatically by systems understanding HR-XML.
It still helps on structuring your resume in a standard way for presentation purposes.
That's one of the big issues commonly shared by Application 2 Application or Business 2 Business integration (using either web services or any other remoting capability): the lack of common references for huge business hierarchal datasets.
3 years ago
in Flash for Linux, libmozembed progress on Zac Bowling's Blog
How about exposing a property that exposes the UserAgent? That was the purpose wasn't it?
3 years ago
in reverse p/invoke and libmozembed on Zac Bowling's Blog
Can't wait to see that in my toolbox!!!! Any idea when you think you may get an alpha control for us to test?
3 years ago
in Subversion, MSDN, Mozilla+MWF on Zac Bowling's Blog
Hi, do you have any rough estimate on your expected delivery date for this WebControl?
Thanks
Amadrias
Thanks
Amadrias
