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I’m giving a talk on “How to have a kick-ass ICT career” at Victoria University tomorrow.

How to have a kick-ass ICT career
Tuesday 15th July 2008 – MYLT 101 13:10 – 14:00

Summary:

Getting a job can be tough. In the first of the career seminars,
John Clegg will provide some information on how to get a great ICT job and
kick start your career. John will tell you what the hottest companies like
Trade Me, Sidhe, Weta and a host of start ups are acutally looking for in a
new graduate. He’ll also offer advice on how to get a job, where to look,
who can help you and some tips on how to impress.

Should be interesting, I’m trying to graduate my presentation style to Presentation Zen style. (Looking for good images is time consuming!)

The Xlinks digest is a interestig collection of links as discovered by the ProjectX team.

Yahoo Boss – an insiders view
Added on 07/11/2008 at 10:12AM
Google Lively
Added on 07/11/2008 at 09:42AM

What good is collective intelligence if it doesn’t make us smarter
Added on 07/11/2008 at 09:39AM

Economics of Software
Added on 07/11/2008 at 09:37AM

37 signals on Pixar’s tight knit culture is its edge
Added on 07/11/2008 at 09:35AM

Scaling on EC2
Added on 07/11/2008 at 09:34AM

Amazon and Google discover erlang
Added on 07/11/2008 at 09:32AM

Live full text search on ruby on rails
Added on 07/11/2008 at 09:30AM

First fullscreen demo of Android
Added on 07/11/2008 at 09:23AM

Why Project Management is important to Start-ups
Added on 07/11/2008 at 07:41AM

Auckland University rolls out gmail to 50k
Added on 07/10/2008 at 08:48AM

Understanding YSlow
Added on 07/10/2008 at 08:46AM

State of the web Summer 2008
Added on 07/09/2008 at 05:09PM

B-Trees – Balanced Search Trees for Slow Storage
Added on 07/08/2008 at 02:08PM

Google Zen Master of the Market
Added on 07/07/2008 at 05:57PM

Easy Development setup with mod_rails
Added on 07/05/2008 at 04:41PM

Sparklines – Theory and practice
Added on 07/05/2008 at 04:20PM

LBS developers wary of iPhone
Added on 07/05/2008 at 04:14PM

Rat proxy test out those security issues in your web app
Added on 07/04/2008 at 09:38AM

Why the Helio didn’t connect
Added on 07/03/2008 at 09:33PM

The net is ablaze with all the iPhone pricing rip off.(Although that haven’t stopped some from queuing up already)

My 2c on the whole pricing thing is Vodafone have set the prices so that they don’t marginalise the rest of their smart phone line up.

If you sell a iPhone 3Gfor $500 or $199, then why would you buy a Nokia N95 at $1399 ?

Steve Jobs set the pricing in US so that iPhone would blow away the competition. The pricing here doesn’t reflect that

Unfortunately, NZ’s probably not big enough to invoke Apple pulling the iPhone from the Canadian marketplace.

We’ve just completed an update to the underlying data on ZoomIn. We’ve just switched to a new suburb set on ZoomIn base onto the “New Zealand Fire Service” (NZFS) suburb set.

Why?

Its about accuracy, we want to provide the most up to date map service around. The NZFS suburb set is being used by all of New Zealand emergency services ie. Police, Ambulance and Fire Service. This update will better represent the way that you think and use addresses in your neighbourhood. The update adds another 1500 suburbs to ZoomIn. We’ve now got a total of 2986 suburbs in our address database.

We’ve completely rebuilt our address system from scratch, which gives us a chance to get all of the address cobwebs out of the system.

Changes to ZoomIn urls

The new address data means changes to the ZoomIn URL’s. Don’t worry, all of the old URL’s will still work, they’ll automatically redirect to the new address url.

Here are some examples:

OLD: http://www.zoomin.co.nz/map/nz/wellington/wellington+wharf/waterloo+quay/28/
NEW: http://www.zoomin.co.nz/map/nz/wellington/pipitea/waterloo+quay/28/

OLD: http://www.zoomin.co.nz/map/nz/auckland/auckland/queen+street/
NEW: http://www.zoomin.co.nz/map/nz/auckland/auckland+central/queen+street/

We’ve just completed the update to the map imagery on ZoomIn. It’s now live on ZoomIn maps API. (There’s no need to change any code, its an seemless update)

We’re in the process of completing the update to the addressing backend and geocoders.