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On a recent job post on a certain site, for the very first time I have seen the requirement of having code published on github.com. Some employers must rethink about their job postings. You must know that github is not the only one social coding website. For example I host my projects on sourceforge.net. You can see my code any time, you just need to know how to use a browser, also you can download my code and send me patches if you find any bug on my hosted projects. Everything will be registered and will be public if you use the proper channel to do your commitment.

Reading resumes is — sometimes — a little bit fun. You can find very interesting ones, but others are wrong focused. Reading programmer resumes, now mostly called Software Engineers, can be more fun. The programmer market is focused to fit the needs on the local industry, so many resume readers, such as IT recruiters just pay attention to programmer certifications, educational grades, and some acquired experience, also a little of motivation and scope of the resume. Many times with a lack of a cover letter, and limited to certain number of technologies to cover the local industry needs. But no one asks for side projects or personal projects, they are not interested. Here is why I am only using the email address on this site (dmw at coder dot cl) from October 10th of 2009.

Usually we work with certain characters who can make us laugh, or definitively can make us want to leave out our current job. There are well defined patterns that are running a wide range of management mistakes, which makes of our projects to be a nightmare or simply can make us waste our time on unnecessary tasks. Despite how efficient we are, and how faster we can get things done, those characters can convert your workday into a long period of 12 hours of work — and certainly much more.

Microsoft is huge company, it has very good resources, but can’t do good software — at least, good software for me — and probably you will notice which details are you missing by using Internet Explorer as your main browser. Did you ever used another browser on the Internet? Internet Explorer is hard to use, on every task that you know. It doesn’t supports a wide variety of standards that are being currently used by many sites.

Netiquette (RFC1855) is a set of standard rules on writing electronic mail. Many of those conventions appears to be lost in time, and bad practices on writing emails are more popular around the Internet. I agree with those rules, but I think that some additional stuff can be used to get more organized electronic mail. Here are some rules, some of them extracted from the netiquette used on mailing lists and Usenet.