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Re: Subversion, MSDN, Mozilla+MWF

amadrias — Tue, 09 May 2006 11:16:09 -0000

Hi, do you have any rough estimate on your expected delivery date for this WebControl?

Thanks

Amadrias

Re: reverse p/invoke and libmozembed

amadrias — Wed, 31 May 2006 12:07:06 -0000

Can't wait to see that in my toolbox!!!! Any idea when you think you may get an alpha control for us to test?

Re: Flash for Linux, libmozembed progress

amadrias — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 06:13:15 -0000

How about exposing a property that exposes the UserAgent? That was the purpose wasn't it?

Re: HR-XML, FlyVideo3000 Support, Mono turns 5 years old!

amadrias — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:54:11 -0000

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.

Re: HR-XML, FlyVideo3000 Support, Mono turns 5 years old!

amadrias — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:56:47 -0000

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.

Re: Life experiences

amadrias — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:50:33 -0000

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 ;-)