In my studies, we had a couple of courses on project models and the business end of things etc. The exam materials consisted of several pdfs and/or powerpoints. The exams were remote and not monitored.
Technically it was pretty easy to use the materials on the exams, but this was limited by setting pretty short time limits on these tests. So you’d have to know the answers instead of going through the materials in several different files. Or that was the idea.
My solution was to build a desktop application that parsed through pdfs and powerpoints in a given folder and presented all these pages in a zoomed out view. You could click and open the pages for closer view, etc. The juice was that you could feed keywords to a search and it’d show all pages where the keywords hit. So I could open up all the materials at the same time, write a keyword from the exam question and look through the relevant pages.
Admittedly this didn’t teach me that much about the actual subject, but I think it was a net-positive by coming out as a better programmer.
I was solicited to improve an Amazon review in exchange for a partial refund. I refused. They tried again and I told them I would reduce the review by a star for each additional email. I forwarded the interaction to Amazon, and they did nothing.
Collage.com is a technology company that makes custom products easy for everyone. We are a profitable, 100% bootstrapped company with about 40 employees that has rapidly grown from zero to $22M annual revenue over the past five years. We are seeking ambitious, nice individuals to join us in our quest to bring great custom products to the world.
Your job will be working on our core software for designing and ordering custom photo products. You will work on a Backbone.js / Handlebars / HTML5 canvas front-end that communicates via REST with a PHP/MySQL backend.
Required Skills/Experience - Strong JavaScript skills, including asynchronous programming, object-oriented design patterns, and architectural best practices - Server-side development with PHP and SQL, including data model design - Spatial/geometric reasoning -- for basic rendering, animation, and image manipulation - HTTP/REST
Nice to Have - Familiarity with web frameworks such as Backbone.js + Handlebars, Flux + React, etc. - User interface design - Handlebars, JSX, or other client-side templating / expression engine - JavaScript performance and frame rate optimization (e.g., hunting down calls to offsetWidth) - SASS/COMPASS - Version control with Git - HTML5 canvas-based rendering engines - Node.js - Grunt.js build systems - CDNs, caching, and page load optimization
Collage.com is a technology company that makes custom products easy for everyone. We are a profitable, 100% bootstrapped company with about 40 employees that has rapidly grown from zero to $22M annual revenue over the past five years. We are seeking ambitious, nice individuals to join us in our quest to bring great custom products to the world.
Your job will be working on our core software for designing and ordering custom photo products. You will work on a Backbone.js / Handlebars / HTML5 canvas front-end that communicates via REST with a PHP/MySQL backend.
Required Skills/Experience
- Strong JavaScript skills, including asynchronous programming, object-oriented design patterns, and architectural best practices
- Server-side development with PHP and SQL, including data model design
- Spatial/geometric reasoning -- for basic rendering, animation, and image manipulation
- HTTP/REST
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with web frameworks such as Backbone.js + Handlebars, Flux + React, etc.
- User interface design
- Handlebars, JSX, or other client-side templating / expression engine
- JavaScript performance and frame rate optimization (e.g., hunting down calls to offsetWidth)
- SASS/COMPASS
- Version control with Git
- HTML5 canvas-based rendering engines
- Node.js
- Grunt.js build systems
- CDNs, caching, and page load optimization
Collage.com is a technology company that makes custom products easy for everyone. We strive to deliver the best customer experience with great software and excellent service. We sell an expanding variety of photo and home products, including photo blankets, photo books, canvases, pillows, and more. Collage.com has been featured on the TODAY Show and Good Morning America several times. We are a small, profitable, 100% bootstrapped start-up with about 40 employees that has been growing 4x annually for the past three years. We are seeking ambitious, nice individuals to join us in our quest to bring great custom products to the world.
Our jobs website (http://jobs.collage.com) lists these positions in several places, but really they are all remote (though someone in New York would be preferred for the Digital Advertising Strategist). Please use the jobs website to apply if you are interested, or feel free to ask any other questions here (or email craig@collage.com).
These are very cool, but unfortunately the last time I tried using BLE (specifically Estimote beacons with their sdk) in an Android app the interference with wifi made the experience unbearable. Presumably not all chipsets have the problem, but every single one I tested had trouble.
I agree this wasn't that technical, but it was mostly just for laughs. If you wanna see some more technical stuff I haven't posted about check out one of my youtube videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51JW-_s-ecE
