Joomla Course on youtube

These danscourses on youtube seem to be very helpful.

Joomla ... WAMP Install

Network subnetting (Cisco)

A Game in Flash ActionScript

The price is certainly right and the ones I've looked at,
mainly Joomla, are of good quality.

Useful News Blog for IT People

I keep forgetting to post this, but here is a useful news blog for techies that I've been reading for a long time:

Slashdot

I've got a lot of useful tech news off of this blog over the years. It's somewhat oriented toward Linux, but they cover a lot of other topics.

Diving into HTML5

Useful resource for those of us looking to pick up
some knowledge on html5 :

Dive into html5 book

Please consider contributing to the author Mark Pilgrim
as you could be paying O'Reilly a lot more for this information.

Sologig

Take a look at Sologig.
This is a site for contracts.
I have found several that are worth a look.
Specify title / skills and zipcode.

Happy contracting, all you 1099 dudes.

Words in Pictures : Impressionistic Resumes ?

Run your resume and the job requisition you're
trying to match through wordle to see how well they line up.

Wordle picks out the 'hot' terms and highlights them in a more
or less artistic way that produces an affect of the character stream
you feed it.

See what my resume looks like when wordled :

Wordle Gallery
Then look for the Resume by Anonymous Rex.
It will probably be older by the time you get there.

And run yours :

Wordle !

Microsoft vs Google

Microsoft and Google agree that hosted productivity suites offer unique benefits for evolving business needs. Of course the two behemoths traveled very different paths to reach this conclusion, and bring different strengths to their respective offerings. Which one is right you?

Inquiring minds want to know, so look here :

MS vs Goog

Technical Library

There's an interesting collection of white papers and such
here :

Application Development Trends Tech Library

Topics include :

Scanning directly to Google Docs
Definitive Guide to Issue Tracking
Monitoring Services in the Cloud
Web Apps Come of Age.
Short guide to MySql High Availability options
Accelerating Innovation in Automotive
 Engineering : Software Quality
Making the Development Cloud Real.

This is a good place to work on keeping up to date.

Sage Advice

Here are a few articles I've run across recently.

Each one has something worthwhile to say, even if I've
previously heard similar wisdom.

Eventually, I think, it will all settle in and voila!, I'm hired ?

Read on MacDuff :

Common IT interview mistakes.
Strategic branding : Your competitive edge.
Yes, I have no weaknesses, just hire me already !
The Social Media Resume
Socks BEFORE Shoes : Dress For Success.
Crafting job interview questions.
Help, I need a job counselling therapist.
Developing Confidence.
 Career Building.


I hope you find some of these to be helpful.