Unbelievable skills

For those of you that have unbelievable skills, you may be disappointed with the current job market trends as seen on the graph at Indeed.com

If you indeed have unbelievable skills, you apparently missed your chance in September of last year.

You can perform some other searches as well, which will probably keep you entertained for at least the next 5-10 minutes or so. I am absolutely tickled at the fact that Ruby has finally caught up with Fortran in the job market.

The Big M Engaged!!!!

For those of you who haven't yet heard (because you're caught in Infidelity Prison or Novell), our fearless leader Mark (aka The Big M) is engaged to be married on September 15th. From what I've heard, the big event is happening 7pm at the Mount Timpanogos temple. An open house is scheduled for the 22nd at an as of yet unknown location. Make sure to congratulate The Big M if you get a chance.

Code annoyances

The problem I have with working on other people's code sometimes is that I find certain things that hurt my eyes so bad that I need to fix them all. For example, today I was looking at code where this guy for some reason decided he needed to tack on "? true : false" onto everything. I really felt like emailing him (and others) something like:

Just one thing folks. Before you go and write expressions like:

 <boolean expression> ? true : false

Just take a minute or two to think about that to yourself. Just a little bit of quiet time. Thanks.

Any thing else you guys have to add?

BTW, Don't you just hate people that write:

if (strcmp(string1, string2) != 0)

instead of:

if (strcmp(string1, string2))

I just can't stand those people! ;)

JavaScript

I don't normally make a post to the blog for the sole purpose of posting some dumb link, but nobody has posted anything for a while, and I'm in programmer prison right now, so it's not like I can just instant message somebody.

Here's the dumb link: Free iPod!

I'm wondering if Jason would like to put together a PeopleSoft version.