R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah

How to interview a candidate/programmer -- Version 0.0.1 Note : It's based on my process of short-listing candidates/programmers and experiences so far in selecting and building my great team. I'll expand it whenever I get time and will amend versions. Not many of you were wise in the way the world judges wisdom. Not many of you had great influence. Not many of you came from important families. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and he chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. - St. Paul Core facts Interviewing is a serious effort and interviewing has great career prospects. Take it as a serious profession. Interviewer/interviewee – no one is genius. You cannot find a person who knows everything. You're not a foreteller and so you cannot identify people by appearance. That's the need for the interview. No interview question is right or wrong. You need to take good decision based on many factors—not just...

It's easy to add little favicons next to all or external links using CSS's background properties: a[href ^="http://jquery.com"] { background: url(http://jquery.com/favicon.ico) center right no-repeat; padding-right: 16px; } But, to automate that for all links in a page, I wrote a nifty jQuery plugin-- favicon (posted to jQuery group). Side note I don't know of anyway to parse the domain name of a link using JavaScript and so thought of using RFC compliant regexp and had to write a PHP helper to import regexp in JavaScript: <?php // Generate JavaScript regexp for matching URL for getting host part // set user agent; otherwise getting 403 ini_set('user_agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11'); echo str_replace(array( "\n", // remove newline '/', // escape / to \/ '?:' // remove--we really need mach ) , array( '', '\/...

When my spirit was high in pain, I wrote "If there is a God, he must be a sadist!" and also added that in my Usenet sig-block. God proved to be cruel again, by taking Suresh Kumar, a great hacker, a good human being, an inspiring Team Leader who worked with me on February 25, 2009. Suresh joined my team in October 2008 and have shown his leadership skills immediately around November 2008 and started building his own team. His knowledge and involvement in CSSilize.com, an online PSD to XHTML conversion website that we're developing was a great asset. It's a great shock that a low BP or any unknown disease can kill him at the very young age. We have had a discussion on February 24th but a bad news came the next day--all to prove absolute vanity in life--and to prove "We live to die; we die to live" May his soul rest in peace.