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  • New grad; To overcome complete lack of experience, should I ditch a creative pet project in lieu of one that would demonstrate more applicable skills?

    - by Hart Simha
    I am currently working on a project on github that I think would be a good demonstration of my initiative, creativity and enthusiasm. It is an educational game I am developing in pygame that enables the user to learn to improve their development productivity by using vim, specifically with python, though learning to code faster with vim should be transferable to any language. I think this is something that might have a mass appeal and benefit to a lot of people in a measurable way. -However- I am graduating from college in a month (my degree is computer science with a minor in English), with no experience that is relevant to helping me get any kind of job in the field, and a gpa that doesn't tout my merits. I could pursue a career in game development, but it's not necessarily what I'm most interested in, and see myself applying to startups around the country. To the places I am looking at applying, showing that I have experience with pygame is going to be largely irrelevant, except in demonstration of my ability to code, period. A lot of skills that ARE more marketable, such a data modeling, GIS, mobile application, development, javascript, .net framework, and various web development technologies, are not going to be showcased by this project (on the upside, employers do like to see familiarity with git and python). I'm wondering if I should sink all my free time in the next couple of months into this project, since I'm motivated and interested in it, and if the value of being able to demonstrate ambition and 'good ideas' (for lack of a better term, and in my own opinion) will compensate for the absence of demonstrating more sought-after skills. I am probably at a point where I should either commit fully to this project now, or put it on the backburner in favor of something else, and I am leaning towards continuing with what I am already working on, because I think it's a great idea, and something achievable to me with enough dedication over the next couple months. But the most important thing to me is being able to get a job out of college, which I am exceedingly concerned about as the professional landscape which I am navigating for the first time is a lot more intimidating than I could have anticipated, with almost every job (even short-term contract positions) requiring years of experience which I lack. So in brief, the common denominator to answering the question "How can I overcome experience requirements for a job" seems to be "Show off your own project." I want to know WHICH project I should work on to best increase my chances of getting a job out of college, keeping in mind that I have no experience. I believe this question is applicable to any new grad that lacks demonstrable experience.

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  • Oredev 2012: Summary and source code

    - by Laurent Bugnion
    This week, I had the pleasure to be invited to talk at Oredev, a really cool conference taking place in Malmo, Sweden. The whole event is awesome, including a very special dinner on Monday including sauna and swimming in a 6 degrees cold Baltic sea, and a reception with dinner at the town hall, including the mayor himself. Considering Malmo is a town of 300'000 inhabitants, it is a pretty nice occasion and the historical building itself is really worth seeing. For those interested, I placed my pictures on my Flickr account. I had a workshop on Tuesday morning about Windows 8 development with XAML/C#, and then a session on Wednesday about MVVM in Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8, of course using MVVM Light. I was very nervous because I reworked some of my demos as recently as this morning, in the wake of the Build conference last week and the release of both the Windows Phone SDK and MVVM Light V4.1. Everything went well however, and if I judge by the people I talked t after the talk, and Twitter, everything went pretty well. Before my talk on Tuesday, I had the pleasure to see a talk by Iris Classon (@irisclasson) on the challenges of being a "n00b" and a woman in software development. I especially appreciated her research and conclusions on the lack of women I our industry, a topic that is dear to my heart (because I want the best possible future for my two daughters, and also because I really enjoy working with women on projects, and getting a different insight on the art of software development. I really want to thank the excellent organization committee for their hard work and their fantastic welcome to Malmo. In particular Emily Holweck did a wonderful job and was super helpful throughout the preparation and the conference itself. I made a few pictures during my stay, all with the new Nokia Lumia 920, and hope you will enjoy them too. The source code and the slides… The source code is available for download from Skydrive. You will find the following: Windows 8 workshop slides. MVVM Applied slides Source code package with Win8Demo: The demo I built during the 4 hours workshop, with some light MVVM, web services (JSON), GridView, Design time data (Blend / Visual Studio designer), Bing maps integration, location sensor, Search pane integration. SemanticZoomSample: a sample I put together to demonstrate the SemanticZoom control, with two GridViews and of course full design time data for Blend work. Due to time constraints, I was not able to show this demo during the workshop, but I publish it anyway, hoping it will be useful to someone. PictureUploader: The demo I built during my 50 minutes session about MVVM Applied in Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8. Code sharing, design time data, MVVM Light are used in Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 apps. And in video… You can also see the video of my MVVM talk thanks to the good services of the Oredev team! MVVM Applied in Windows Phone and Windows 8 from Øredev Conference on Vimeo.   Laurent Bugnion (GalaSoft) Subscribe | Twitter | Facebook | Flickr | LinkedIn

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  • JavaScript tip a day: Pretty Print, Debugging Events and $0

    - by Sahil Malik
    SharePoint, WCF and Azure Trainings: more information Debugging is a pain. Debugging events on a web page is an especially bigger pain. This video will make that pain go away! Also check out the previous videos, performance profiling, console.info, warn, assert, error, console.group, console.count, console.table and  console.log   Read full article ....

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  • Will Beej's Guide to Network programming point me the right way to be able to make multiplayer games and a web broswer?

    - by Logan545
    I'm new to socket programming in C, and I've found the Beej's Guide to Networking programming. It looks fine and all, however, I just wanted to ask whether this tutorial will point me in the right direction in terms of network programming. I plan to build a game in opengl that will be multiplayer using c+ and possibly a web browser. I know this tutorial would by no means teach me how to do this, but would this be a good way to start off on my path?

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  • Making Room for Innovation - Oracle Interactive eBook

    - by Javier Puerta
    Innovation and complexity are two critical topics on the minds of business leaders. Innovation is what gives them a competitive edge; increased complexity is their greatest challenge. Learn how Oracle is helping customers change the game and make room for innovation by simplifying IT. Access the new Oracle interactive e-book, “Simplify IT and Unleash Innovation”. You can download it here.

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  • Draw images with warped triangles on a web server [migrated]

    - by epologee
    The scenario The Flash front end of my current project produces images that a web server needs to combine into a video. Both frame-rate and frame-resolution are sizeable enough that sending an image sequence to the back end is not feasible (in both time and client bandwidth). Instead, we're trying to recreate the image drawing on the back end as well. Correct and slow, or incorrect and fast The problem is that this involves quite a bit of drawing textured triangles, and two solutions we found in Python (here and there) are so inefficient, that the drawing takes about 60 seconds per frame, resulting in a whopping 7,5 hours of processing time for a 30 second clip. Unacceptable. When using a PHP-module to send commands to ImageMagick for image manipulation, the whole process is super fast (tenths of a second per frame), but ImageMagick seems to be unable to draw triangles the way we do it in the front end, so the final results do not match. Unacceptable. What I'm asking here, is if there's someone who would know a way to solve this issue, by any means necessary that would run on a web server. Warping an image Let me explain the process of the front end: Perform a Delaunay calculation on points in an image to get an evenly distributed mesh of triangles. Offset the points/vertices in the mesh, distorting or warping the image. Draw the warped triangles on a new bitmap. We can send the results (coordinates) of steps 1 and 2 to the back end, to then draw the warped triangles and save it to an image on disk (or append as a frame to the video). But that last step is what I need help with. The Question Is there an alternative to ImageMagick that can draw triangles in a bitmap? Is there some other library, like a C library, that would allow us to do this? Or could we achieve this effect more easily by switching back end technologies, like Ruby? (.Net and Java are, unfortunately, not really options right now) Many thanks. EP. P.S. I'd appreciate re-tagging efforts, I don't quite know what labels to put on this question. Thanks!

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  • Switching from an Ubuntu derivative to original Ubuntu

    - by SteliosSk
    I installed Zorin 6 (based on Ubuntu 12.04), because I like all the whistles it has (plymouth screen,compiz effects,installed codecs, sound themes, etc.). I miss though the modern and futuristic unity environment (launcher, dash, HUD, indicators etc.). Is there a way to switch from Zorin to Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS and keep all these effects? Or What additional software should I install in an Ubuntu clean install to add the effects Zorin has (plymouth, compiz effects, sounds, audio and video codecs etc.)

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  • Friday Fun: Archers Oath

    - by Asian Angel
    This week’s game puts your archery skills to the test as you race against time to save innocent captives from the hangman’s noose. Are you good enough to show Robin Hood a thing or two about using a bow or will you be shot down in shame? How to Stress Test the Hard Drives in Your PC or Server How To Customize Your Android Lock Screen with WidgetLocker The Best Free Portable Apps for Your Flash Drive Toolkit

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  • Next lowest value in MySQL Database [migrated]

    - by Justin Edwards
    SELECT * FROM `experience` WHERE `reqexp` <> '4793' ORDER BY 'lvl' DESC LIMIT 1 Here is what I want to do. I am making an online game for a client, and need to be able to use a mysql query with a random value, and find the level associated with that amount of experience. In this case, I need to find the next value lower than 4793 that already exists in the database so I can determine the players appropriate level. Any Ideas?

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  • A Batch of LinuxFest Northwest 2010 Videos at Montana Linux

    <b>Montana Linux:</b> "I recorded them with a Samsung SC-MX20 which is a very inexpensive / budget rig. The sound quality is fair to good considering the camera does not have the ability to use an external mic. The video quality is fair to good considering that most of the rooms had the lights turned off for viewing projected presentation slides."

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  • Google I/O 2010 - Keynote Day 2 Android Demo, pt. 5

    Google I/O 2010 - Keynote Day 2 Android Demo, pt. 5 Google I/O 2010 - Keynote Day 2 Android Demo, part 5 Video footage from Day 2 keynote at Google I/O 2010 For Google I/O session videos, presentations, developer interviews and more, go to: code.google.com/io From: GoogleDevelopers Views: 2 0 ratings Time: 05:30 More in Science & Technology

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  • Hulu Desktop for Linux Review

    <b>IT World:</b> "Hulu is one of the most popular video sites on the web. You can watch all kinds of different television shows and movies right in your browser. But there's also another way to watch Hulu and that's to download the Hulu Desktop application for Linux."

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  • SignalR Book

    - by eddraper
    Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/eddraper/archive/2013/06/30/signalr-book.aspx  Just finished SignalR: Real-time Application Development from Packt Publishing.  It’s a really great read for those wanting a holistic view of SignalR as a true application building block.  In many respects I think that SignalR could end up being a game changer for entirely new classes of both apps and frameworks. I’d love to see the puppy plugged into a rich client side ORM…

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  • How to rewrite a TCP MMOG server designed to run in a single machine, in a distributed way?

    - by Dokkat
    I have a MMOG server running on C++, using winsockets. My server won't support more than 200 players. I had the idea of redesigning it so it will use multiple servers instead of one, so, maybe, for example, each server could take care of a number of players, and, if it was too laggy, it could transfer the responsability of that player to other server. I'm not sure of how to program a consistent game logic like that, though. Are there techniques for this?

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  • Installing Oracle Forms 11g - how do you do it correctly?

    - by Grant Ronald
    Every now and then on the OTN lists we see customers having a few issues installing Oracle Forms 11g.  To try and address this, we've put together a couple of support notes to help people.  If you have access to MyOracleSupport, you should access note:854117.1 which shows the steps with nice clear screenshots.If you want to see a video of the install steps then check out note:1088873.1To configure SSO with 11g you should go to note:852352.1 and for maintenance information go to note:1073776.1

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  • Week in Geek: Firefox 17 Beta now Forces Secure Connections for List of Selected Domains

    - by Asian Angel
    Our first edition of WIG for November is filled with news link coverage on topics such as Gmail has become the #1 e-mail service in the world, Borderlands 2 video game characters are being killed off by a sabotage attack, Ubuntu 11.04 has reached its end of life, and more. How To Play DVDs on Windows 8 6 Start Menu Replacements for Windows 8 What Is the Purpose of the “Do Not Cover This Hole” Hole on Hard Drives?

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  • Chiro One's Success with Oracle Sales Cloud

    - by Richard Lefebvre
    "As we strive to be a world-class company for our patients we needed to align with a company like Oracle who also is a world-class brand," says Roger Gold, National Director of Customer Engagement. Chiro One Wellness Centers is a national healthcare provider. It plans to grow to 1000 offices across the globe by 2020 and Oracle Sales Cloud will make that possible. Watch the 4'33 YouTube video featuring Chiro One success with Oracle Sales Cloud

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  • Follow the action: OTN's YouTube Channel

    - by Bob Rhubart
    If you're not one of the 50,000 people participating in Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco next week you can still be a part of the action. Members of the OTN crew will be interviewing various community luminaries and subject matter experts and capturing some of the color and exitement on video. These videos will be posted on the Oracle Technology Network YouTube Channel daily.  Of course, you can also keep tabs on what's happening through social media via OTN's Facebook and Twitter (@oracletechnet) channels. Stay tuned...

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  • Friday Fun: 40xEscape

    - by Asian Angel
    This week’s game literally lives up to its name…forty locked doors and forty tests of your problem solving skills. Some of the solutions will be obvious, but others will test your patience to solve them. Do you have what it takes to escape forty times or will you be locked up in defeat? 8 Deadly Commands You Should Never Run on Linux 14 Special Google Searches That Show Instant Answers How To Create a Customized Windows 7 Installation Disc With Integrated Updates

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  • Google I/O 2010 - Keynote Day 2 Android Demo, pt. 2

    Google I/O 2010 - Keynote Day 2 Android Demo, pt. 2 Google I/O 2010 - Keynote Day 2 Android Demo, part 2 Video footage from Day 2 keynote at Google I/O 2010 For Google I/O session videos, presentations, developer interviews and more, go to: code.google.com/io From: GoogleDevelopers Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 09:58 More in Science & Technology

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