Update your LinkedIn profile. Detail is good as long as it is specific and relevant. Make your profile public and searchable. For example, here's my profile.
Recommendations:
Get relevant connections to write you LinkedIn recommendations:
Faculty advisors
Teachers
Co-workers (current and former)
Clients
Vendors
Once you have a few good recommendations, copy and paste them into a word document and print that to a PDF. You should email this document every time you email someone your resume. You should bring this with you to interviews in addition to your resume.
Post your resume on Monster, Dice, and Indeed. Be ready for a flood of spam, so maybe use a different email address other than your usual email address.
See if you can get it on one page without making it look crammed, while giving some relevant details.
Then make a different version which is two to three pages long with all of the detail from your LinkedIn profile.
Print both versions on high-quality paper using a laser printer.
Put your LinkedIn profile URL at the bottom, and when your LinkedIn profile starts accumulating good references, note that with the URL.
Have several people review it who are experienced resume reviewers.
Recruiters:
Contact these people:
expanxion
805-496-3500
Say 'hi' to Drew Greeley for me -- he got me my current job
JobSpring Partners OC
(949)553-4200
Say 'hi' to David Belsky for me
JobSpring Partners LA
(310)996-0200
Say 'hi' to Rameet Singh and Erin Wilson for me
Workbridge Partners OC
(949)833-1300
Say 'hi' to Cory Eustice and Brett Sterling for me
Workbridge Partners LA
(310)445-3300
Say 'hi' to James Valone for me
Ask them at the end of each phone call when you can next follow up -- and if they don't have an answer, ask them if you can call them in a week or two. Your goal is to be fresh in their minds without being a nudge. Make sure you follow up.
Read up more about resume writing, interviewing, etc. on the Internet.
Consider contributing to an open-source project on GitHub or SourceForge
FYI #1: a single parent company owns both Workbridge and JobSpring.
FYI #2: I don't receive anything back from these references -- except (hopefully) gratitude from the recruiters if and when I ever re-enter the job market.
$(textarea).append(txt)doesn't work like you think. When a page is loaded the text nodes inside the textarea are set the value of that form field. After that, the text nodes and the value can be disconnected. As you type in the field, the value changes, but the text nodes inside it on the DOM do not. Then you change the text nodes with the append() and the browser erases the value because it knows the text nodes inside the tag have changed.
So you want to set the value, you don't want to append. Use jQuery's val() method for this.
I'm heading up an effort at my current company to write integration (browser) tests. We're using Selenium as our integration testing tool.
Here's the problem: many tests require one to log in as an administrator. But it would be crazy to check into source code an administrator username and password.
Recently I had to use some HTML, PHP, & JavaScript code that mixed both single- and double-quotes (' and "). The problem was that I had to display names that at times would include both single- and double-quotes that were escaped (\' and \"), which was causing premature closure of HTML tag attributes, so what to do?
htmlentitites() didn't work stripslashes didn't work I wasn't allowed to replace a single quote with a backtick (`)
FlowerPoop found that ' is the ASCII representation of single quote. str_replace("'","'",) did the trick!
To have another Flickr user add you as a contact in Flickr:
That user needs to log into Flickr ( http://www.flickr.com )
Near the top middle of the main Flickr page is "Contacts" -- to its right is a drop-down arrow. That user needs to click that drop-down arrow to open the Contacts drop-down menu.
That user needs to click People Search, which will be an entry in the Contacts drop-down menu.
That user needs to search for your email address or Flickr screen name in the search field and click the blue and white Search button just to its right.
Your username should appear in the search results; that user needs to click Add as Contact for your username. That will then bring up a window where that user can also designate you as Family and/or Friend.
That user then has to make sure photos in their Flickr photostream have been marked either as (a) public or (b) viewable by Friends or (c) viewable by Family.
You'll get an email once you're added with a bunch of links; I believe the third link is to add the user as a contact. Make sure to click the appropriate link to add the user to your Flickr contact list.
Assuming that this all works out, here's how you now look at the user's photos going forward:
Log into Flickr
Near the top middle of the main Flickr page is "Contacts" -- to its right is a drop-down arrow. Click that drop-down arrow to open the Contacts drop-down menu.
Now click Contact List, which will be an entry in the Contacts drop-down menu.
You should now see a list of your contacts. The user with whom you've been communicating should be listed. If you click on the username, you should see any photos that the user has listed as being viewable either:
In your web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, etc.), type: http://www.flickr.com (or click this link: Flickr Home Page )
Click the big grey and pink button in the upper-right named "Create Your Account"
If you have a Yahoo! account, log in with that username and password.
Otherwise, if you have a Google or Facebook account, you can link either of those accounts to your about-to-be-created Flickr account. You'll be requested to log into Google/Facebook, then will be prompted to grant Flickr access to your Google/Facebook account.
Flickr will then ask you to choose a screen name -- this is how you'll be known on Flickr. Click the continue / next button.
Flickr will then ask you for three pieces of information for verification purposes: a) First name b) Last name c) Birthdate
