Yesterday was interview day! We're looking for a junior developer, 1 or 2 years out of school, with a bit of experience / exposure to Microsoft Technologies. We use .NET, C# and SQL and I expect to have to train them some, (I'm not expecting a Chris Sells or Rory Byth to come walking through my door looking for a Jr. Developers job). A brief synopsis of my 3 candidates yesterday - all of them are CS graduates, and all have the required 1-2 years experience, and each one has spent the last year working in .NET (either VB or...

  Its tax time again, which means that I am once again struggling with  my various bank accounts, IRA's, 410k's. I expect to struggle with this, I'm no financial wizard and the tax laws were evidently written by people who were doped out of their collective minds. What I don’t expect to struggle with, is the downloading my accounts into MS-MONEY. Believe me this has not been easy. Lets take American Express for example, I have an AMEX card, an IRA and I use their online bank. The card and brokerage account I can set up from within Money, the online bank...

So today I decided I’d take a break from my normal routine of reading blogs, looking at code and such like. Thought I’d read the news instead, find out what was happening around me, get my finger on the pulse of the nation as it were. Based on todays experience I have decided to make reading the news a weekly feature - it is definately more entertaining and enlightening the what the mainstream media has been handing out namely Kobe Bryant Janet Jackson and Martha Stewart.   Lunch-time breast lifts?Women can get lunch-time injections of...