Couple of days ago I came across a  blog post about VentuRocket, an alternative way to find a job. This is a neat little startup that is hoping to change how people find jobs and how companies find good employees. It works very much like Google AdWords, you specify how much you are willing to… Hankering to read the remainder of “Adwords, VentuRocket And Low-Ball Offers?” Click this link!

I don’t really watch much in the way of television these days. I’m more of an accidental watcher, encountering shows when they are on the TV whilst I am visiting friends. I’ll watch an occasional movie, but most of the stuff that Hollywood puts out bores me to death. I’m not a film snob, I… Continue reading the remainder of “Hulu needs my what now?.”

Seems that over the Christmas holidays whilst I have been laid up with some weird “non-specific” illness that mailchimp.com and their spam email servers decided to increase the spam load in my inbox, because you know, I need to know about “this week in sarasota” and other vital “marketing campaigns” that have absolutely no relevance… Click here to read the remainder of the article

I’ve never understood why manufacturers of artificial Christmas trees do not sell half-trees or three-quarter trees. Take a Christmas tree and cut it in half, length-wise, so that it can be placed flush up against a wall or in the corner of the room, which is what most people do anyway. Hardly anyone decorates the… Click to continue reading the remainder of this post

“You can have it small, fast, understandable. Pick two.”  – Justin Lloyd

Need to convert a string in to an int in C#? That sort of task is trivial thanks to the TryParse method of the System.Int32 structure which is a standard part of the .NET Framework. TryParse does exactly what you need by taking a properly formatted string and converting it to an integer. The great… Yearning to get the remainder of “C# How To Convert String To Integer Value?” Click the link!

Got a folder full of images that need to be converted from one format to another? Use Image Magick and do in a few seconds what it could take hours in Photoshop or other image editing applications to achieve. One of the simplest ways to convert a directory full of images from one format to… Click to read the remainder of the post

.NET offers the programmer many strongly typed data types. One of those is the System.Boolean structure which represents a Boolean value. System.Boolean, though programmers normally use the bool alias when declaring Boolean variables, have a value of either true or false. These two logical values permit the Boolean data type to represent anything that needs… Needing to read the remainder of “C# What Is The System.Boolean Structure?” Click this!

.NET and C# provides the programmer with the bool (Boolean) data type to represent values that are true or false. Any need to represent a two-state mechanism, such as a light switch, can be represented by a bool, e.g. on or off, yes or no, and so on. C# bool Type Definition The intrinsic data… Continue reading the rest of “C# What Is The Bool Data Type.”

Why do many recruiters these days even bother to show up for work? I got a bunch of emails today from what are apparently reputable companies that went straight in the trash. Definitely worth a laugh on a gloomy day like today by pointing out someone else’s ineptitude at their job. I’m just going to… Click here to continue reading the rest of this article