Quite some time ago I wrote a three part series on how to calculate your billing rate. Not enough of you appear to have learned from it given various conversations I’ve had. It appears the majority of people who actually read it were bottom feeding pimps because now they’ve reverted to asking consultants for their “standard rate.” Most of you knee jerk an answer for what would be a good rate with you able to … The Standard Rate TrapRead more
Experience
What life gives you when it doesn’t give you want you want.
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Worst User Interface In The History of Man
Once you’ve been in IT for a while you get really offended by sucky user interfaces. For quite some time the rank of worst user interface in the history of man was held by the Yahoo redesign team. The previous interface wasn’t pretty, but at least it had everything one would need to do proper investing. Now it has the second ugliest interface ever and is fill with nothing but pump & dump paid advertising. … Worst User Interface In The History of ManRead more
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Why You Suck As a Technical Recruiter – Again
It never ceases to amaze me how the most unqualified people tend to become “technical recruiters.” I had a big conversation a while back with the head/owner of a “consulting” company about why he can’t ever find Qt consultants capable of landing a contract. You only work W-2. Qualified people only work 1099. Your primary qualification for technical recruiters is that they are “priced right.” I told him flat out, when someone calls me, or … Why You Suck As a Technical Recruiter – AgainRead more
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A TCP/IP Software Appliance
In the very near future, every viable business class operating system will incorporate a TCP/IP Software Appliance. This is not a firewall. What we have today serving as firewalls may or may not server any purpose in the future, but one thing is for certain, we cannot solve our security problems via any hacks to our existing socket and IP libraries nor can security be improved by any future tweaks to SSL/TLS. I have been … A TCP/IP Software ApplianceRead more
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Old is New Again
If you live long enough in IT, everything happens at least twice. The first book I ever wrote, “Zinc It! Interfacing Third Party Libraries with Cross Platform GUI’S” has become somewhat current again. Some number of years ago I was contacted by a gentleman asking about this book. He was embarking on a journey to port a now OpenSource version of ZAF (Zinc Application Framework) to a current C++ compiler. We exchanged a few emails … Old is New AgainRead more