I agree with this.
Personally I think it switching to a digest would lesson the chances
of someone seeing a job that might apply to them. But guess that
opinion only applies if they subscribe to the CF Jobs list itself in
non-digest format.
Sent from my iPad Nano
On Apr 12, 2012, at 8:52 AM,
I do not blame the companies one bit. I think they are getting around the
H1B visa need here via just bringing them stateside briefly for training and
then shipping them back to their home countries to do the job. Perhaps I am
wrong on that though, I do not know much about how all the different
Interesting outlook although over here at least the CIO's message to
managers is move all development to the east(they are referring to India)
because we are not an IT company. I had a meeting last week with a local
manager and he told me they are seeing a 50% drop in efficiency by moving
things
From what I gathered last week it is not just within their boarders. Like I
mentioned someone here is already looking into outsourcing work to an outfit
out of Brazil. About 7 years ago I worked on a project here that was with a
Brazilian. Shared an office with him for about a year before he
Or even themselves for the long run but in the shortrun it will make the
stock holders happy.
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Jeffry Houser j...@farcryfly.com wrote:
RobG wrote:
I like Ravi's positive outlook, but I have to somewhat disagree and say
that there are lots of companies that
I know plenty of senior people making around that, some more and some less.
So do not see that out of the range of possibility, now if you lack a
college degree it becomes a good bit harder since the big companies that pay
that much for employees do want those pieces of paper. The vacation
I am not looking for work and have not been in a long time but I still
continue to get contacted by places looking to hire people with my skill
set. To me it does not seem like the market has lesson any and perhaps has
even increased. I am sure that greatly depends on where someone is located
I have been working with it since it basically came out in the 90s. I do
some OO and some procedural, it really depends on who I am doing work for.
For example some of the places I do work for have their own inhouse
frameworks and methodologies which are not OO but that is what you use when
you
What is so wrong with having publicly viewable resumes? I come across
people's personal websites all the time that have that. I could
understand how maybe having them viewable to lord and everyone else
and containing perhaps a home address might be a mistake.
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:53 PM,
Yeah but your friend was hunting for a job and pushing/leading people
towards a resume and him. My question was more towards people who just have
their resumes sitting out there on their personal sites and in a completely
unprotected manner. I would guess that 90% of the blogs I randomly go to
I am not sold that getting a BS in Computer Science/Software Engineering
would be a huge stepping stone to management when you already have a 4 year
degree and regardless of what it is in. Reason I am not sold is in all my
years of doing IT work not one of my managers or their managers had an IT
The school I am going to for this CIS degree had some tracts similar to
those and one for databases. Unfortunately by the time I got to the point
where I could take those classes they did away with the tracts and actually
are talking about changing it from a CIS to an MIS degree. Actually would
though. I do think that the BSCS is
probably not a good idea.
Dave
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Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 11:39 AM
To: CF-Jobs-Talk
Subject: Re: The next level...
The school I am going to for this CIS degree had some tracts
hah ... that is better than what my friend gets working for Blackwater out
of Baghdad, now if I only could find an IT management job in Dubi(sp?)
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Alex Puritche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
PI whats the pay like?
$50K/mo I guess.
It takes a special type of person to be able to manage people they can not
see in person. Some people can manage that just fine and others can not.
Telecommuting is one of those things that is slowly picking up but I foresee
it taking a long time before it is more mainstream. My biggest hangup
True, although when they get that trust lets just hope the trust also does
not direct them to just sending the work to a telecommuter who will work for
pennies on the dollar overseas. :)
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Scott Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
When proper life cycle development
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From: Aaron Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:55 PM
To: CF-Jobs-Talk
Subject: Re: What is it with telecommuting?
True, although when they get
Crud, guess I better take notepad off my resume ;)
Aren't most job descriptions written by people who typically are in
ignorance of how the work is actually done? Most of the descriptions that I
pay attention too certainly give me that impression at least.
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 9:24 AM,
If you write off a home office, just keep in mind you have to pay back some
deductions if/when you go to sell your home. I do not know all the
specifics on it but have been warned by many so just passing on the same
warning. You can write off certain aspects of a car purchase as well
although
cpa when i get one? ! Live in california,any help would be
appreciated.
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From: Aaron Rouse [EMAIL PROTECTED
own taxes. I'd recommend an accountant
of
course.
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From: Aaron Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:33 PM
To: CF-Jobs-Talk
Subject: Re: Consultant vs. Employee
If you write off a home office, just keep in mind you have to pay back
at 7:37 PM, Bobby Hartsfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Yes. You should have proof of everything you claim in case of an audit and
OMG I hate those receipts that fade to nothing! They should be illegal.
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Sent: Thursday, March 27
and upload the
images
as well.
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Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 8:48 PM
To: CF-Jobs-Talk
Subject: Re: Consultant vs. Employee
Yeah, but prior to this year my CPA said that a log book was sufficient.
I
still kept the actual
of the total mileage drove.
Although I do have the records for repairs, oil changes, etc... I've
always taken the mileage deduction for business car expenses.
Aaron Rouse wrote:
Yeah, but prior to this year my CPA said that a log book was sufficient.
I
still kept the actual proof but just found
I am able to write off my commutes from my home office to clients and I do
the commute often times 5 or more times a week and the bulk of my work is
done for the same client. The CPA is the one who figured out how to apply
that and what I am able to write off is the cost of the commute. But just
Some collective representation for IT workers has its advantages and I am
sure disadvantages as well. One thing that has always annoyed me is how IT
workers are treated by the tax man vs some other occupations and I think a
collective representation could have the power in numbers to change
I think that is normally the case, I am seeming to recall certain forms of
labor in some of our businesses we had to do sales tax on. One could maybe
debate if code is a product though.
On Feb 3, 2008 10:24 PM, s. isaac dealey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In fact, I'm probably treated a bit
Interesting, $40/hr is really not a ton cheaper than what a lot of U.S.
developers will work for. We have paid anywhere from $40-60/hr for CF
developers. I personally have worked for anywhere from $30-80/hr, just
depended on the job, my schedule, and many other factors.
I have had trouble with
They are trying to outsource things to other countries here, something they
have tried in the past and failed at. I personally do not see how it is
cheaper when their current method includes hiring up 36 IT Architects to
help develop all the paper work that will be used to build things. After
30, 40, even 50% of everything we earn to a government,
and we do it willingly without rioting. =P How times change huh?
Warm regards,
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http://www.viviotech.net/
BlueDragon Alliance Member
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Aaron Rouse wrote:
Certainly, I actually
The only thing that sucks about that is 1/3rd goes to taxes, correct? That
really is not a whole lot of money when you break it down. I can understand
rates to compete with people who telecommute from other countries although
quite honestly I have never ran into the need to compete with them
Was not meant as an insult. I have two good friends who joined the armed
forces and later after leaving became programmers. One was just a couple
credits shy of having a degree upon leaving the military and other had one,
both done through the armed forces, I think both associates degrees Both
Most jobs I have applied for required a 4 degree and some did prefer a
masters. Seems to be happening more and more these days. Matter of fact
the sole reason I have been doing contract work for 6+ years for the same
company is because they require a 4 year degree and I am a year or two away
this degree and will then move on.
On 8/27/07, sherri sonnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wow... if you have been contracting with them for 6 years only because
you
did not have your degree. Not cool. I would look into that
On 8/27/07, Aaron Rouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most jobs I have
if you don't agree. :)
Aaron Rouse wrote:
I currently take night and weekend classes for a computer based degree
and
most of the classes I have taken did not deal a whole lot with
computers. I
have learned a lot though that I have been able to apply to my daily
work.
On 8/27/07, Phillip
sorry I started a major upset on the list. My point
comes down to a simple statement.
No job should put college experience above work experience.
Sorry if you don't agree. :)
Aaron Rouse wrote:
I currently take night and weekend classes for a computer based degree
and
most
Join the military, just try not to join a branch that will make ya a bullet
stopper
On 8/27/07, Jeffry Houser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Still, I think it is an expensive way to gain a focus. Surely there
must be more cost effective ways?
Why not just install Homesite+ off of a DWMX or DW8 CD?
On 12/27/06, Ray Champagne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There was a CF5 Studio?
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Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 1:14 PM
To: CF-Jobs-Talk
Subject: Need CF 5
I do not know what the cost of living is in SF these days but imagine it has
not gone down since I looked into it a couple years back. So that does seem
really low to me but it has been my experience that often time job postings
get one title/description when in fact the job itself is something
Personally I'd rather see stronger CFC and less CSS or perhaps just stronger
CFC. For 99% of the companies I have done work for they had designers who
made all the CSS, graphics, etc then had the CFM people come in and work the
magic to make it all dynamic. So with that being the case knowing
Same here, was amazed the first few times it happened that recruiting had
been outsourced like that. I tried to nicely tell the first couple I was
not interested but after rewording that statement a few times without them
understanding what I was saying I finally just gave up. Probably does not
I think ugly commutes should be factored in. You get the added expense of
maintaining a vehicle more so it lasts day to day. Plus the huge added
aggravation of dealing with the commute. For the past 5-6 years I have been
commuting an insane amount and primarily because the money was just so
So the S stands for Sherry?
On 3/8/06, S. Isaac Dealey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Heh. I've mentioned it on cf-community in the past. :) Actually I
accidentally posted the story to cf-talk too...
http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/messages.cfm/forumid:5/threadid:
15629
Susan's a new
I think with it being quite commonly spelled both ways it might be good to
mix it up on resumes ;) That way it might make it through any automatic
filtering
On 1/25/06, Cameron Childress [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, as Beau points out, it's quite common to see it used both ways
in job
At one of the places I do work at there are some people there who have been
doing CFM work for every bit of 5 years and have no idea what cfqueryparam
is amongst many other things. Then I know we have Lotus Notes people who
have similar flaws
On 1/11/06, Jeffry Houser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been rather busy starting sometime around the begining of December.
I have been turning down a few new jobs since most of my existing network of
contacts has been keeping me busy. I know in my area of at least 1 full
time CFM job but not sure if any others.
On 1/5/06, Jeffry Houser [EMAIL
I have never been in the position to hire someone to do telecommuting work
for me. I have however done telecommuting work for several places and some
of which get on these lists. Hopefully some of these comments help.
I do not think for any of them there was something I'd label as a interview
Perhaps it is in Beta or Alpha or RC, of course talking about such things I
am sure is against an NDA
On 8/8/05, Johnny Le [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Merrimack is not out yet and this person already has experience with it.
S/he is truly an expert:-)
Sorry, I don't mean to be mean, but I
I think every person is different in their ability to learn things. I state
this because when I got around to learning CFCs I picked them up in no time
at all, probably a matter of days. I did not even use any online tutorials
or really even look much in the documents. What I did was looked at
could count on one hand how many people/places outside of work I have given
the number to. Did not dawn on me during the phone call to ask how they got
it, did email the person though asking them but never got a response.
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From: Aaron Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 11:13 AM
To: CF-Jobs-Talk
Subject: Methods of contact
I was just curious how many times people end up getting contacted by
recruiters via methods you never have given out
paid way too much for that job), we
want you!
I really like how the URL at the end refuses connections.
On 7/4/05, Aaron Rouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By reading that job posting, ANY benifit would be considered decent. I
know
what walmart offers is a lot better than the nothing I get
By reading that job posting, ANY benifit would be considered decent. I know
what walmart offers is a lot better than the nothing I get right now.
On 7/4/05, Adam Haskell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Decent benifits and Walmart don't go together...
Adam H
On 7/3/05, Aaron Rouse [EMAIL
There are some jobs with Walmart that pay more than $10/hr and offer some
decent benifits and take very little brain thought.
On 7/3/05, Adam Haskell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yikes I know people that work in our stores' deli deptartments
cutting slices of Meat that make more than that w/ 20
I just glanced at the first article but do any of them mention if there is
any relation between certified workers and job security?
On 6/21/05, Jeffry Houser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting read:
http://www.computerworld.com/careertopics/careers/labor/story/0,10801,102324,00.html
Very true, also sometimes a CFUG will get contacted by a company directly
and then the posting is passed onto the members.
On 6/10/05, Cameron Childress [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd also try finding and getting involved in your local CFUG. Many
(most?) of the best jobs are never posted to a
CFQUERY will not return back a new identity either, well depending on the
database chosen it will not without a second cfquery. Just curious, not
implying anything wrong with it one bit, but what are your reasonings for
using almost all SPs for your DB work? Also curious the reasons for that
That syntax is not even valid for all databases. An example I am thinking of
is how to return the identity when using Oracle. I know the syntax to use if
just in a SQL client, tried it with a couple of versions of DB drivers with
CF and never had it work. Of course it could simple just be done
It is SEQNAME.NEXTVAL in Oracle and I'd like to see how you get that to work
in a single CFQUERY that returns NEWID to the CFM page. Using two CFQUERies
would at least avoid the need to lock anything.
On 5/12/05, Douglas Knudsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
with oracle vernacular the word is
Which still does not return the unique identifier(the value of
SEQNAME.NEXTVAL) to the CFM page. The lack of returning a the unique
identifier was one of the big hang ups given against CFINSERT. A simple
trigger in the database and making sure form fields use the same names as
columns would
This could be purposely done and part of someones style. I always do the
cfif IsDefined() AND ... method but have seen the other route taken from
rather knowledgable people. At what point do you decide it would be easier
to follow some nested if's over one single long if statement. I can not
I tend to scope these, it is not out of worry of me not knowing what I am
referencing or even of someone else coming in and not knowing. I think it is
more of just out of habbit and it just gets typed. I do know at one time I
came across a prior developers work who would be in a cfoutput
What I have seen some do is put URL and FORM into the REQUEST scope and then
reference that scope.
On 5/9/05, Jeffry Houser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If a page can be accessed via both url requests and form posts how
does one handle a variable that may be in either scope? Do ya'll use a
I see, this explains why one of our senior developers matches your beginner
developer description.
On 5/6/05, Gregory Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Senior implies pure tenure IMHO...I figure you earn the title senior
when you've been at your company longer than 75% of the developers there
I was curious about that as well. Right now I am doing 1099 and making my
quartly payments. I figure about 35% of my income towards taxes. When I look
at my paychecks I feel like a rich man, too bad once I pay taxes(on my own)
and deal with medical and so on, I am not really clearing a ton of
Perhaps what you think is mid-level, others think is jr level? What does a
Jr level CF person get in that area?
I once applied for a Sr level full time job here with this company I am at
now as a contractor. They never posted the pay range, I just assumed it
wouldbe around what everyone else
I believe it is in reference to a question/answer site online for technical
related issues. It used to always be one of the first links from google when
I would be searching on a specific thing.
On Apr 11, 2005 12:37 PM, Jeffry Houser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm confused...
when you say
It is a specific site, I tried some random searches on google before
replying earlier. However as luck would have it, I can not find the thing
when I actually want to find it. Here is what I thought it was in reference
to, now that I found it maybe I am wrong since it is experts exchange
Actually, no I have been looking into the onTap framework during my
free time because I was thinking about proposing we branch into
something else that might allow better projects to be whipped out of
here. Really was not to resolve any problems, they are actually are
very content with their
Is there really such a thing as job security? :)
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:20:21 -0500, Larry C. Lyons
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...it needs to be made inefficient.
looking for job security Aaron?
larry
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:04:48 -0600, Aaron Rouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
, Aaron Rouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But sadly I see no change happening here. Just yesterday a co-worker
was talked to for using a UDF and some inner joins on a page that I
helped him with. The reason was that they did not understand the
syntax used so that was wrong and it needs
Guess it depends, I could see how learning a new language could be
called learning a new skill.
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:07:21 -0500, Jeffry Houser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I hear people say that a lot. I really don't know if I agree. Languages
come and go, but the concepts behind the
off my .NET shirt and
wear it :)
Adam H
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:59:29 -0600, Aaron Rouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
haha ... well I have never made it to one of those conventions so have
not been able to wittness such hecklers. I am planning to go to
CFUnited this year though, so maybe I
Been my experience you only get those rates from rather big companies.
My pay range has fluctuated so much over the years of doing CF that
I'd hate to see a graph on it.
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:50:54 -0800 (PST), Joshua OConnor-Rose
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Holy Cow!!! I need to reconsider my
Man, I need to write a book and speak at some conferences. Do I have
to be an official speaker or can I just hang out in the parking lot?
;)
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:03:35 -0500, Jeffry Houser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I chose those numbers because 100 is easy to break up into percentages.
haha ... well I have never made it to one of those conventions so have
not been able to wittness such hecklers. I am planning to go to
CFUnited this year though, so maybe I could dig up some odd-ball shirt
and be That Guy
I doubt there are many CF people just flat out rolling in dough. :)
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Interesting subject, because of something that happened just
9 and betting it has been 10 as well.
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:58:17 -0500, Michael Dinowitz
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From: Aaron Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 5:50 PM
To: CF-Jobs-Talk
Subject: Re: was a tricky situation
When I was working at Rice University a few years back there were numerous
code examples
One way is things such as chamber of commerce meetings.My wife goes to
one for the hispanic community in the area of town that she works and it
is a great way to find small business owners and network out.I have to
agree with what some of the others have said, most small businesses are
not going
A brief overview of how I did it:
1. Loop over my file count
2. Read the file and convert it all to lowercase
3. Removed all punctuation and replaced all line breaks with spaces
3. Make a structure and looped over the file variable, adding each unique
word if not present or increasing the counter
I think the hippie one was the one mentioning dart throwing and being able
to hit the board, not the secretary.It was the one that said they do not
care if you are CF certified and forgot to put it on the resume or
something along those lines.It was a job I believe out in San Fransisco,
posted I
Ah, you are right I just went through my inbox, I saved Bnanas.Another
thing that was in the hippie one was that if you smoke they are right by
the stair well and you can smoke there.I must have entirely too much
free time during my job search if I am remembering this tiny details ;)
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