Job Site Brings Back Viral Monkeys
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Hot off of the success of its "Monk-e-Mail" Web site, online job placement company Careerbuilder.com is seeking another viral hit with "Poo, peel, pound." This time, college kids are encouraged to have the brand's monkey mascots battle via a prehistoric version of rock, paper, scissors.
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Hasin Hayder has started up a new project that he's documented in a new blog entry - the creation of a new jobs website in PHP.   I was involved in making a job site few days ago. During the development, I have studied how easily anyone can develop a job site using PHP (language independent in true sense) . So I decide to write a blog post about my experience and here it goes. But note that this article is not about scaling or balancing the load on your site during heavy traffic, heh heh.   He comments on the startup process surrounding this type of site and makes suggestions about something to consider for your careers site - pulling job content from other sites in two ways - screen scraping and using the job search APIs out there.
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By ROCHELLE STEWART  Job seekers beware. Your personal information on the Web just might cost you that coveted interview.
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Both employers and prospective employees are finding that blogging can be useful in the job search process.
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By JONATHAN RENNIE  THINK playing around on MySpace or Bebo is just a bit of a laugh? Think again.  The majority of recruitment consultants believe it could become the best way of finding a job in the future - but only if you are clever with what you post on your webpage.
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I'm back, with a very interesting topic too!  Joel Spolsky, ex-Microsoft Manager and software engineering guru has a new essay, How Microsoft Lost the API War that is creating quite a big storm in the blogging communitiy.  Joel posits that the priests in the holy Temple of Microsoft have lost their way, because it has split into two factions, and the wrong faction is winning. One faction worships on the alter of backward compatibility, while the other is led by fervent priests who are proselytizing to raise up the new gods of .NET and Longhorn. Joel suggests that the new gods will cause the destruction of the holy Temple because Microsoft's great victories were built on the altar of keeping customers happy with backward compatibility. Furthermore the old gods of the Windows API continue to grow more grotesque and cruel with the passing of time, driving former worshipers into the arms of the friendlier gods of World Wide Web.  This story sounds extremely plausible. I must admit that i fit the profile of the developer who used to develop on the Window's API, is familiar with COM and Win32 who now develops mostly using PHP and Python. However I continue to develop and maintain Windows apps that keep our customers happy, and we still plan to develop new Windows apps. Some points:  Temple of the Blind? Firstly, Microsoft is still a compelling place to work for to people who feel that they can make a difference. The Temple continues to attract talented people with a Unix background. For example we have the recent hiring of Ward Cunningham, author of the Wiki.  Microsoft is still able to keep talented people like Raymond Chen, and others like him who continue to look after the Windows API, and Longhorn apparently will still give high priority to backward compatibility. Open sourcerers like Miguel Icaza are sufficiently attracted to the .NET vision to stake their careers on Mono. Longhorn and .NET are compelling technologies, so even if Win32 is not so cute anymore, M'soft is providing something that remains very attractive.  What i do see M'soft doing wrong is that they aren't disseminating the .NET runtime fast enough. It remains an optional install in XP Service Pack 2 for example. Also their IE dev team appears to be hog-tied due to political reasons; nevertheless IE remains good enough, particularly when I can embed IE as an activeX control, something I cannot do with Mozilla (AFAIK) - Update: I'm wrong.  Temple of the Spider?  Secondly, people don't merely use a web browser. They run the web browser in the OS.  So let me ask you, if you are using DreamWeaver or HomeSite or Photoshop or vi or emacs or Gimp, how many of you are willing to give it up for a java applet (or whatever your favorite technology is) running in your web-browser? Precisely.  Temple of the Abandoned?  Third, Joel makes the claim that developers are not developing to the Windows API. Well he could be right. But I bet a lot of them are still calling Win32.  If you are using a framework or IDE like Delphi or wxWindows (or .NET or VB) then you certainly are insulated from the Windows API, but that doesn't mean that you're not calling the Windows API all the time. I don't see Borland dropping their Windows version of Delphi at any point in time.   In fact, the fact that many developers are using some form of framework is a compelling argument for Microsoft to enhance the .NET framework to attract developers who are using other frameworks.  Today, not that many students learn x86 assembler, but that doesn't mean that Intel lost the CPU wars. Just because fewer people are learning Win32 doesn't mean Microsoft has lost the API wars, if the frameworks run predominantly on Win32.  Temple of the Lost  Joel even warns you in the beginning that "because I'm talking about big trends, I need to exaggerate and generalize". But you still get sucked in because Joel Spolsky is a first-class writer, in the same order as Philip Greenspun or Eric Raymond. That makes him so persuasive and plausible. But this is not Indiana Jones and doomed temples, but Steve Jobs and reality distortion fields.  Other opinions:  Harry Fuecks (PHP is ASP's upgrade path),  Dennis Hamilton (M'soft is just covering all bases), Robert McLaws (Joel is wrong in 7 points), Oliver Travers (the web is not good enough), One Run-time to Rule them all....
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By ANICK JESDANUN NEW YORK - At first glance, the posting looked like any number of Internet classified ads explicitly seeking sex.
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A job recruitment Web site is offering to pay top workers for interviewing with companies.
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A job posting for social news site Newroo, which was purchased by Fox Interactive Media last year, hints at the possible future launch of
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Fending off predators, preteens and malware perpetrators on the most-visited Web site in the nation? Meet the guy who's got the job you're glad you don't have.
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Surging popularity of MySpace, eBay and LiveJournal fuels the photo-sharing site's success. In Monkey Bites.
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Huge crowds in social networking sites draw money-minded malware authors.
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Thanks to a new job recruiting strategy, employers posting their job  openings on Geebo.com now get their openings broadcast to sites across  the Internet, including the three most highly trafficked web sites in  the United States: Yahoo!, Google, and MySpace.
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Scientists in the United States find a way to turn lazy monkeys into workaholics using gene therapy.
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Rojo  is trying to hire a few Engineers .  Rojo is an amazing company to work for.  We're working with some really impressive technologies and doing some really cool work.  If you're interested in RSS/Atom, Social Networking, Open Source, Java, Linux, etc then I'd highly recommend that you come and work with us.  If you suggest someone to Rojo, and we hire them, we'll give you a free iPod. At the very minimum its a nice gesture for your help.  Also if you want a free invite to Rojo please let me know.  We'd love to have more feedback.
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Job hunters using Monster.com, the employment Web site owned by Monster Worldwide, received fake job offers by e-mail that asks for their Bank of America account information.
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$133K salary awaits Fujacks fiend A Chinese virus writer sent to jail for four years earlier this week has being offered a well-paying job by one of his victims.â¦