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Table Tips

July 30th, 2009
Posted in Software Development

Everyone once in awhile I get have to go for coding mode to designing and writing HTML and CSS for an internal tool or translating it into Velocity. I’ve learned to use Firebug to debug most HTML and CSS issues. Lately, I’ve been running into table formatting and layout issues, here are few tags and [ READ MORE ]

Technical Interviewing 101

July 28th, 2009
Posted in My Experience

Having been at Mint.com for nearly 3 years I have had the unique opportunity of interviewing each of my bosses, and several of my co-workers. Not to sound like a sycophant, but there is a reason why we hired each one of them. During the interview process they surpassed all their peers in terms of [ READ MORE ]

Teaching non-techies how to make trade-offs

July 26th, 2009
Posted in My Experience

The one mantra I left undergrad chanting was, “it depends.” Translation: for any given problem the solution involves making trade-offs; space vs. time, time vs. money, quality vs. quick and dirty. Most programmers think in terms of trade-offs, because they are constantly faced with limited resources whether its memory, disk space, or the scarcest resource [ READ MORE ]

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