Top Jobs for October 1st, 2011

October 1, 2011
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Top Jobs for October 1st, 2011

As found on our new Technically Speaking Jobs page (job feed, job board). C++ Windows Developer at Apache Search (Chicago, IL) scalable, and maintainable applications and services. Technically Speaking 5+ years C++ and C# development experience in a Windows environment Real time data and/or financial markets experience required. Strong Object Oriented Programming… Ruby on Rails Developer –...
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Isn’t Western Sky just legalized Loan Sharking?

September 30, 2011
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Isn’t Western Sky just legalized Loan Sharking?

Back in the day I thought what Western Sky advertises was called loan sharking. You know the Italian guy you’d meet at the dark corner bar like a Soprano’s episode. How does Western Sky get away with blatantly advertising their loan sharking business? Just something I’m curious about. They flat out say, if you...
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Technically Speaking, Ruby, Startup, PHP, MySQL jobs listed

September 29, 2011
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Technically Speaking, Ruby, Startup, PHP, MySQL jobs listed

Decided to put together a quick RSS look – Technically Speaking Jobs - a psuedo job board page if you will. It’s listed above so you can just come here and click that page listing. You may have already seen the tweet, and if so, that’s great. If not, the page is real, it’s...
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There are things I’ll do (and things I won’t do)

September 29, 2011
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There are things I’ll do (and things I won’t do)

People seem to hit me up all the time about their startup. I find it quite interesting as half the time all they really want is an introduction to someone that I know. That’s fine, just ask for that intro. I’ll usually give you my full attention to what it is you want to...
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What’s up with all the Kanji and foreign language stuff?

September 28, 2011
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What’s up with all the Kanji and foreign language stuff?

As I looked at the main page of my blog the other day when I decided to break out and start writing again, I too noticed that the main page was filled with Kanji and other languages. I found it humorous at the time, but looking back, as you can also see by the...
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Is LinkedIn really that good or how to bug the shite out of me

September 27, 2011
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Is LinkedIn really that good or how to bug the shite out of me

I get invites to be part of people’s LinkedIn all the time it seems lately. It’s almost as bad as how when MySpace was a valid social network, people would bug you to be friends with them. Almost as bad as how Facebook is. How bad Google+ will become if they don’t watch out...
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Getting the band back is sometimes not a possibility

September 26, 2011
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Getting the band back is sometimes not a possibility

If you long to get the band back together, that sometimes just isn’t going to be possible. For a gruesome example of that, take a look at any recent death by overdose or otherwise of bands of the past ~20 years or so. They’ll never reunite or get back together. Same goes for some...
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Full Circle Blogging

September 23, 2011
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Full Circle Blogging

Well it seemed to have started here, and it’s almost like coming home in a way. Full circle blogging. I just found a new favorite blog by a serial entrepreneur that actually has inspired me to write again. Eric’s new blog or revived site has quite a few interesting posts so far. I’ve read...
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Six Reasons Why your Marketing Message is Spam

August 5, 2011
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Six Reasons Why your Marketing Message is Spam

I see spam daily. In fact most of us see too much of it. We mostly ignore it and here are some reasons why. If you are in the business of affiliate marketing or email campaigns, you’ll want to review these reasons. English is not your native language. That is probably one of the...
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