Required Skills:
* Fluency in HTML and CSS
* Experience taking mockups and turning them into standards-compliant HTML/CSS
* Expertise in achieving cross-browser compatibility in IE, Firefox, and Safari
* Experience in implementing grid-based layouts in HTML/CSS
* Experience in an agile development environment
Pluses:
* Interest in user experience design and graphic design
* Experience in Javascript and Ruby on Rails
* History of side projects and interest in social media, browsers, and mobile web
* Obsession with new technologies and open source tools
* Experimental, user focused, and iterative
* Previous startup experience
I felt the Pluses section was very interesting, specially (you kinda see the others on Rails related job boards anyway):
* History of side projects and interest in social media, browsers, and mobile web
* Obsession with new technologies and open source tools
Shows how today’s start-ups value people who are really interested in what they do (and not just in for the money). An encouraging view of the world indeed – now I just have to get on it and get those much needed Plusses into my skills bag
Note to my employers, friends, well wishers and anyone else interested: This does not mean I am looking for a job! I love the job I have right now and am just happy to see the importance of “passion” in the world’s view of an ideal employee increasing!
And so far I am loving it. It’s better to read on compared to Kindle 1 (which, BTW, Ujwala had gifted to me last year) – and the native PDF support (and the search-anywhere) is awesome! The experimental browser that comes with the DX is much much improved compared to Kindle 1st Gen.
So I was reading more about Rails Routing in the rails-guides. And while I was in the bus today morning I wanted to read that on the Kindle (coz it is a pleasure to read on it). So I fired up the guides page on the experimental browser – it works, but reading a PDF or a Kindle-formatted book is so much better.
So I got this simple idea. Print the web page as a PDF and e-mail it to your Kindle. Here’s what I did:
Go to the site
Print – (PDF format “saved to file” instead of sending it to a printer). I was on Linux – Mac also has the “Print to PDF/PS support by default, for Windows you’ll need to get CutePDF installed)
e-mail it to your Kindle address (I also uploaded it to my dropbox – so I can get it later on) and you are done!
(BTW, dropbox is an amazing thing – if you use multiple computers/OS, you have to try this thing. If you are going to try it out (for free), help me out – use my Dropbox referral link)
So there you go – another easy way to get web-content for free on your Kindle. Go on enjoy the book now.
Assuming you know about “guarded logging”, a Java logging best
practise. If not, get an overview in this IBM article or in this blog.
Basically it is the practice of checking if a particular log message
will indeed be outputted to the log (based on the severity level)
before calling the log statement. This is a performance improvement.
Here’s a Java example:
So I heard from one of my colleagues that Ruby’s logging performance
can also be improved the same way, by putting the message in a block
(instead of just passing it as an string arg to the method):
See various ways to log a message at the ruby-docs (search for
“How to log a message” in that page). I looked into the source-code
and, just like in Java, the first thing that is done is to check the
severity and return (true) if the severity is higher than the
message’s. So like in Java, it should not have any effect (except
creating the strings etc.).
Just to test it out, I wrote a benchmark test:
Here’s what I noticed:
with n <= 10,000 (number of logging calls), there was really no
difference between the three ways:
with n = 100,000: It looked like the simplest way to log (with a
string-arg) still performs the best:
Final takeaway: it really does not make that big a difference and
keeping it simple (with a string-arg) should work. If you are worried
about performance, this probably is not a trick that will give you a
big bang for the buck.
The first album consists photos from Hamilton Park and Alki Beach, a beautiful area in West Seattle. Because of it’s location, you get great views of Seattle and the Harbor from here, specially great in the evening.
Here are a few excerpts:* [![macbook][4]][4]
* [![Seattle downtown basking in the evening glory][5]][5]
* [![Downtown Seattle Closeup][6]][6]
* [![Pinkish sunset over Mt Rainier][7]][7]
* [![a couple getting married][8]][8]
* [![A state ferry with the Space Needle and Cascade mountains in the backdrop][9]][9]
* [![another shot with the mountains and the needle][10]][10]
* [![On the way to Death Valley][11]][11]
* [![On the way to Death Valley][12]][12]
* [![Badwater Basin][13]][13]
* [![Bad Water Basin][14]][14]
* [![Red Rock Canyon][15]][15]
* [![Vegas Strip][16]][16]
* [![Fabulous Las Vegas][17]][17]
* [![Fabulous Las Vegas][18]][18]
* [![Around US][19]][19]
* [![Red Rock Canyon][20]][20]
* [![Red Rock Canyon][21]][21]
* [![Red Rock Canyon][22]][22]
* [![ARCL Summer 2008 3rd Place Trophy (Eagles)][23]][23]
* [![Arnab Deka][24]][24]
* [![Arnab][25]][25]
for a birthday gift! Thanks Ujwala!