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Flotsam and Jetsam #3

By Nick at July 24, 2010 00:02
Filed Under: Flotsam and Jetsam
  • A number of you have noted that the Computer History Museum (which has both online content and a physical building up in Silicon Valley) has released the original Pascal source code for one of the seminal Macintosh applications, MacPaint.  I remember that application well – my dad had it on his original Macintosh.  I also have a strong memory of the graphic of the geisha for some reason.
  • I’ve stared using Thunderbird for my nickhodges.com email address, and I really like it.  (I used Outlook at all of my previous jobs….) and it has this cool feature that I’ve never seen before that can use keywords from your post to remind you that you haven’t attached a file when you said you had.  We’ve all done that one.  That has probably been around on other mail clients, but I confess to never having seen it.
  • I now have a public CV at StackOverflow.  And let me add that this is about the 34th time I’ve typed in my resume.  Okay, that’s a few too many times, but it feels like it.  Business idea: A central resume location that employers can just pull from.  LinkedIn, I’m looking at you.
  • If you are interested in HTML 5 (and you can include me in that group), you might find this tutorial interesting. It’s an interesting project – Be sure to read the “Did You Know” note at the bottom of the Table of Contents.
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7/24/2010 8:20:19 AM #

cjrh

This is the most important line in your CV:

"Led the successful shipping of four versions of RAD Studio"

I, for one, remember only too well what things were like between the time of Delphi 7 and later when you became employed by CodeGear.  It was obvious to me that you had a big influence on the process.  In the one release, we finally got some specific attention paid to fixing long-standing bugs.  I bet that version (D2007?) sold really well.  I have a feeling we're going to be on D2010 for a while, and that's ok, because it was a solid release.

cjrh South Africa |

7/24/2010 8:36:35 AM #

Marjan Venema

As a developer I'd rather use careers.stackoverflow.com as a central CV database for developers. You choose whether to make it public/searchable or not.

StackOverflow is targeted at and used by the sort of companies and people interested in the same kind of things I am when it comes to developing software.

Of course, when you are looking for a non-developer position in software development (or any other field of interest), linked in may indeed be a better choice. Not in the least because many HR departments have found their way to linked in as well.

Marjan Venema Netherlands |

7/24/2010 12:30:30 PM #

Will Watts

Thunderbird was indeed not the first to pick up on 'attached'. Pegasus - Window's oldest living emailer - has had it for several thousand years and IMO implements it better. A modal dialog appears when you click 'Send' with a message along the lines of 'Didn't you mean to attach something, stupid?'

Thunderbird's reminder is a bit too discreet and polite, and I have overlooked it. Somebody said that there are add-ons that do it more robustly, but I haven't gone looking for them.

Incidentally, if you are in the market for TB add-ons, I do recommend Nostalgy very highly if you sort mail into folders.

Will Watts United Kingdom |

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