What Not To Write In Your Resume Introduction

August 18th, 2005 "Well I am at the tip of the door of a saucer that’s taking me round giving me a chance to take a plunge in to the turbulent sky around. I am sure that plunge will land me at the doorsteps of your company, where I would like to make a mark in that stellar of software professionals who took a jump thinking the way I did." - A Job Applicant This ought to be included in Ripley's Believe it or not show.

February 10th, 2007 Here is an (real) example of what you don't want to write on a cover letter with explanations. Dear Sir/ Madam, I am looking forward to a job, which matches my qualifications and where analytical skills & logical reasoning are involved.

July 13th, 2007 Poromenos, a greek student, has written a nice tutorial on Python, a rapidly growing and ever popular Web 2.0 language. I think it will take you somewhat longer than 10 minutes to go through all the examples.

July 1st, 2009 In the recession-hit scenario, downsizing seems to be emerging as a viable solution. In such an unfavorable situation, grabbing a job is a tough-nut to crack.

October 12th, 2006 It is hiring time again! Srini has devised an algorithm for hiring at Taragana which I think very appropriately describes our hiring funnel: if (isClueless()) { goToIBM(); } else if (runOfTheMill()) { goToWipro(); } else if (thinkUMLIsDesign() && bigAmbitionToBeADesigner() && chooseVariableNamesLikeTheLengthOfThisOne()) { goToAccenture(); } else if ( appreciateDesign() && (knowJava() || knowPHP()) && isTrueDeveloper()) { welcome(); } If that looks like you and you are located in India (or willing to relocate) please send your resume to hiring[at]taragana[dot]com. Note: No animals or companies were harmed in the making of this algorithm.

November 18th, 2007 This is how you create an infinite loop in bash to run a piece of code perpetually at pre-defined intervals. #!/bin/bash while [ 1 ] do # Your code goes here # Modify sleep time (in seconds) as needed below sleep 2 done For example I used this code to write a bash script to monitor long running mysql queries.

November 14th, 2005 After enhanced for loop was introduced with J2SE 1.5.x aka J5SE, I made it a delightful habit to use it. You know what I am talking about, right? For example previously I used to write: private gbWay() { ....

June 21st, 2006 Paul Adams explains how you can develop Firefox extensions using the handy Extension Developer's Extension. The example is easy enough but don't be fooled.

February 9th, 2006 I have been interviewing several freshers who were taught Java in engineering schools under computer science curriculum. Interviewing them highlighted serious problems with their education as well as with the system.

February 10th, 2009 problems may be very silly as they come but it gets increasingly difficult to handle them if you don't know the easy way out. Just the other day my friend was scratching his head out to know the last time when his Winserver was last booted.

April 20th, 2008 PHP is not only a very competent web development language (and part of LAMP stack). It is also a very capable language for writing (command line) scripts.

October 25th, 2005 Java Software - TinyDisk provides a way to store large amount of data anonymously (write once - read multiple times - delete admin only) on the internet. It overlays a write-once-read-many anonymous, persistent and globally shared filesystem.

September 7th, 2007 WordPress provides you the capability to write an excerpt for your post. A post excerpt is displayed as a summary of the post in front page and archive pages.

October 14th, 2008 The download manager of Firefox is one of the most advanced features of a modern internet browser. From the age old Windows' default download options in Internet Explorer to Opera or Maxthon's improved download managers, we have seen them all.

February 16th, 2006 Often we come across procedures which need to be performed by issuing commands in a telnet session. It is relatively easy to do it manually but is definitely not suitable for automation.