Joel Spolsky has provided some wisdom on hiring the top 1%.
My theory is that the best way is to find them (the top 1%)before they realize there is a job market–back when they’re still in college.
Joel has hit the nail on the head and re-iterates the driving philosophy behind the Summer of Code. Get smart coders into smart start-up companies.
Hmmm. Now that one of the secrets is out, we’ll have to try harder… (Summer of Code 2.0 is coming)
Here’s a collection of post’s on the relationship between Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOA) and SaaS.
We really believe in SOA at ProjectX. All of our new services have been designed as a part of SOA. As we refine and improve our services, we’ll be making to available to developers to enable their own applications.
Dell has release 32Gb flash hard disks into their new range of laptops.
* Sigh * Looks like I’ll be waiting a bit longer until I can upgrade my laptop. I’ll have to wait until apple includes them into their powerbooks….
Saw this on youtube – Simpsons poking fun at google maps.
Hilarious!
Spotted on internet travels…
Donkey Kong made from Post-it Notes..
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Was just reading the homepage on stuff and noticed there’s a huge “When X meets Y” ad for Yahoo Xtra.
It goes to show that Telecom will do anything and spend anything to promote their brands.
A friendly warning to anyone using google’s gmail or “hosted email”, the spam filter can be a little more agressive that you might like. I have been experiencing a number of problems where several of our customers emails had disappeared into the junk mail.
I suggest that you keep an eye on your junk folder to make sure that you don’t lose anything. Also you should periodically upload your contacts to gmail which will help make sure that the email you want remains in the INBOX!
Any suggests on how to tame hosted gmail would be appreciated !
Paul Graham’s Y-combinator has created new news site called Start-up news. Here is Paul Graham’s annoucement for the launch. He states the intention of the site as
..the most important goal of news.ycombinator was to create a place where founders and would-be founders can meet and talk.
He is also using the forum as a means to interact with potential Y-combinator candidates.
Again, Paul Graham is leading the way on how to promote ideas and encourage would-be entrepreneurs.
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Here is a cool picture of all Met link bus stops (Ferry stops), and schools in Wellington. Its looks like some nature picture with huge flocks of Pink Flamingoes!
Tomek was playing with visualising lots of points of the map and he created this picture of some of the ZoomIn data. Cool Huh !