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What a good job board looks like?

Many questions on hiring are posted to Stackoverflow. What a good job board looks like in your opinion (example link if any). What features should it provide? What information (form fields) should a post form contain guys? ...

Oracle dbms_job with invalid owner

Ok, database at a clients site that has dbms_job entries where the schema_user is invalid. (It appears to be the effect of bringing over a schema from another machine using exp/imp.) I would like to get rid of these jobs, but standard operating procedure says that you must connect as the owner of the jobs to dbms_job.remove() it. I th...

Job-hunting techniques - should we contact company employees for information

Hi First I can understand it is not programming related but you are welcome to Re-tag it as appropriate. This question is purely targeted to those who are in a position to make hire or fire decisions. I am a bit confused about taking the following action. I have the third and final interview with the senior management in a few days ...

You are a web developer. How many languages (and related skills) do you know?

Hello guys, I am not sure if my question is appropriate here. If not, please close. I just wanted to know how many languages an average web developer in this site know? For me, I can do html, css, xml, javascript, php/mysql, ajax, photoshop, illustrator, flash, flex, Actionscript 3, wordpress. I can do medium level graphic design and...

Does occasional open source contributions make much sense?

I made some open source contributions to existing projects in form of patches(which were eventually accepted). But I don't understand how this occasional contributions can be a good thing when looking for a job.. Most likely that your customer won't look for patches in different places. For me, it looks like OSS contributions can be he...

How to get business domain knowledge (except actually working on them).

Many a times companies prefers candidates who has prior experiences in a particular domain. e.g. Banking, Telecommunication etc. And it is not possible for a person in the middle of his career to gain knowledge of each and every domain even though he has the required technical skills to do the job. What in your opinion should be done i...

Home programming task for job applicant

I'm looking for a programming task for job applicants to do at home. The task should give an idea of the applicant's coding style and more specifically if the applicant: - knows how to separate GUI and logic. - understands threading. - understands efficient memory management. - practices good error handling. - uses patterns correctly. - ...

You need experience for a job, but if you can't find a job how can you make exp ?

Possible Duplicate: How to get hired when lacking experience. Hello, I am a student, currently programming in java. I would like to improve my chances in finding a job, but everywhere is mentioned that experience is important, to write code, good design etc. The question is, what is this 'experience' ? A good portofolio (w...

Is Python (Django) experience professionaly comparable to Ruby on Rails?

I ask this because there seems to be a few more jobs available (at least by telecommute) in RoR. If an employer sees significant Python/Django experience on a resume, would it be plausible to believe that the developer would be able quickly learn Rails? ...

Critical Problem with Sharepoint Timer Job Properties

Some minutes ago I tried to create a time job A added some properties like this.Properties.Add("fileName", fileName); this.Properties.Add("username", new NetworkCredential("username", "passworD"); After updating the job a get a critical error in the Timer Job list of the Central Administration occured. The platform does not know how...

Creating Hudson jobs and views from command line

Can I create Hudson jobs from the command line?? If yes, can views be created the same way?? ...

Sharepoint Timer Job process doesnt release file (IOException)

I created a timer job (via Feature Deployment) that creates a file in hostserver´s filesystem. private static void myMethod(Byte[] results, string fileName) { using (FileStream stream = File.OpenWrite(fileName)) { stream.Write(results, 0, results.Length); stream.Close(); stream.Dispose(); } } als...

INSERT INTO results_table EXEC sproc from within a scheduled job

I'm trying to setup a scheduled job that with one step that would insert the results from a sproc into a table. INSERT INTO results_table EXEC sproc The job executes and reports a success. Yet nothing gets inserted into a table. When I execute the same script from the SSMS the results are inserted. What might cause the problem? ** E...

Running two jobs with Quartz in Java

Hello I have Quartz coded as follows and the first job runs perfectly: JobDetail jd = null; CronTrigger ct = null; jd = new JobDetail("Job1", "Group1", Job1.class); ct = new CronTrigger("cronTrigger1","Group1","0/5 * * * * ?"); scheduler.scheduleJob(jd, ct); jd = new JobDetail("Job2", "Group2", Job2.class); ct = new CronTrigger("c...

How to get job handle if I have HANDLE to one of the windows of the job

My application tried to scrape IE8, here we somehow obtain HANDLE to Internet Explorer Window/UI. Now I want to get the job handle for IE8. One Idea is to - Determine first the process id using the IE Window HANDLE using GetWindowThreadProcessId() but after this I am stuck. There is new implementation in IE8, here every tab opened is a ...

Using systemdiagnostics.process to run background jobs in Powershell

I know Powershell has background job functionality with Start-Job, Wait-Job, etc., but is it possible to use the Process class from System.Diagnostics in .Net to achieve the same thing? If so, what would be the best way to do it/what advantages would it have over the default Powershell mechanism of running background jobs? ...

As an EE/CE, what languages/concepts should I become more familiar with before graduating?

I am currently entering my senior year as a dual major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, and have touched on a wide variety of different languages: C, C++, C#/XAML, Java, bash, python, VHDL, assembly, etc. I was wondering what you think would be a good language/few languages to become more proficient in, or to explore f...

Programming Job Boards - [UK ONLY]

Ok, so i've just finished my degree and I'm scouring the internet for jobs - and it's not easy. There is just so many sites. I've seen a few posts on SO regarding jobs but they are mainly for America. So if you know of any good sites specific to the UK and IT(Software Development, Design, etc) please let me know. I'll try and add to th...

Language for back-end math-intensive sections

I have recently begun working at a company wherein there are very few (2-3) programmers and many more engineers. As a result, the default language of choice has become VB.net. I look at some of the math-intensive portions of the programs that have been written thus far and I'm certain that these portions could be improved considerably if...

How terminate child processes when parent process terminated in C#

Task: Auto kill all child processes if parent process terminate. Parent procees can be terminated not only in correct way, but also by killing in ProcessExplorer, for example. How can I do it? Similar question in С topic advice to use Job objects. How to use it in C# without exporting external DLL? I tried to use Job Objects. But th...