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Bill Guard : Seek out the nasty exceptions

I came across this in my travels.
It looks promising for those of us with bills
and has a great price : $00.00.

BillGuard alerts users of unwanted charges such as hidden fees, billing errors, scams and fraud on credit card bills. The startup essentially crowdsources scams by alerting you when a charge on your bill is flagged by anyone else using BillGuard or posting scams on online forums.


Bill Guard

The PHP Learning Trail : Working with NetBeans Tutorials

PHP Learning Trail

Developing PHP Applications In NetBeans IDE AT a

VERY REASONABLE Cost. 

Actually I think it's FREE.

Go Here

Topics Include :

Frameworks
Creating a Database Driven Application With PHP
Configuring Your Environment for PHP Development
Testing and Debugging

Free Webinars This Week Javapassion !

Oct.24th-28th week free webinars from JPassion.com/JavaPassion.com (Please forward/tweet/facebook to anybody who might be interested.)

Oct.24th-28th week free webinars from JPassion.com/JavaPassion.com
(Please forward/tweet/facebook to anybody who might be interested.)

Wednesday (Oct. 26th) 11AM-noon EDT (New York time)
Topic: "Serialization"(from Advanced Java course)
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/282364102

Wednesday (Oct. 26th) Noon-1PM EDT (New York time)
Topic: "JRebel with Java EE 6 - JSF 2.0" (from JRebel course)
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/718511766

Wednesday (Oct. 26th) 9PM-10PM EDT (New York time)
Topic: "JSP and JavaBeans, Using NetBeans" (from Web programming course)
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/478902038

Wednesday (Oct. 26th) 10PM-11PM EDT (New York time)
Topic: "Spring AOP" (from Spring course)
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/728193246

Thursday (Oct. 27th) Noon-1PM EDT (New York time)
Topic: "JRebel with Myeclipse Blue"
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/824655310

Friday (Oct. 28th) 10PM-11PM EDT (New York time)
Topic: "JMS and EJB MDB" (from Hibernate/JPA/EJB3.0/JMS course)
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/632249470

As always, you can see all scheduled webinars from below

http://www.javapassion.com/webinars

The recordings of previous webinars have been posted to the
relevant course website of http://www.javapassion.com.

How Recruiters Use Social Networking to Screen Candidates

A worthwhile read.

Screening Candidates

Tech Talks & Startup Dinners.

Thanks to Judith, one of our members, who thought we might find these small tech 
talks and startup dinners interesting. 

This month, five companies, Dropbox, Quora, Causes, Meraki, and Stitcher (company details below) are each having private tech demos and dinners for Bay Area professionals.

1. If you'd like to be on the mailing list for future dinners, please don?t hesitate to hit reply- blank mails are fine- and I'll be sure to put you on the monthly mailing list. 

2. If you're interested in exploring engineering opportunities at these companies, and would like to meet the teams behind these brands, just hit reply, type the company's name, and attach your resume. That's it. We?ll get back to you about your place at the dinner. It would be great if you could let me know by Sunday of this week.

Alternatively, feel free to sign up on the site: http://startupbyt.es/landingpageoct.html

Companies from upcoming and past dinners include:

Useful Firefox Extensions for Web Developers

I've found several useful Firefox extensions that have helped a lot in our project to redevelop the Marin Professionals web site:

Firebug: A top quality web page debugging tool. Opens a separate window in Firefox that shows your HTML code and the associated CSS. Allows you to make temporary changes to your tags and styles to see how they change the appearance of your page. Recommended by Joomla for figuring out what their generated pages are doing.

Colorzilla: Versatile Firefox color picker tool. See a color you want to match? Use Colorzilla to find out what its parameters are so you can duplicate it on your page.

Measureit: Use to check the width, height and alignment of elements on your web page.

Aardvark: Draws red rectangle around elements on web page; shows associated tags. Keystroke driven functionality can isolate, remove elements from page.

Hope you find these helpful.

Sources for Memory (and Other Stuff) for Older PCs

Since the topic of memory for older computers came up at a Marin Pro IT Group meeting, I thought I'd pass on the names of a couple of computer surplus places I shop.

HSC Electronics

Weirdstuff Warehouse

HSC also has a brick-and-mortar store in Rohnert Park.

A Few More Articles Of Some Interest

Of Some Interest To Some Anyways !
Perhaps even you.

New Intel Processors Reviewed
Too much time on your hands ?
Windows 7 : Positive Spin
Some Androids have wee problems ..
My Pad Beats YourPad, so there


Best Apathetic Tee Shirt :

Print Media Adapting to Mobile

I thought this was an interesting article.

Seeing as how I am now subscribing to

free mobile versions of publications

like the Economist, I am thinking there

may yet be hope for the "print" media.

Magazines Adapting to Mobile