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CFUnited Survery out - Vote for me !

The CFUnited topic survey is up so go vote!

http://cfunited.com/go/survey/166

And while you are there, do remember to vote for me as I'll be speaking about "Continuous Integration - Automation for people".

See you at CFUnited 2009, hopefully :)

We are Hiring @ SRA International, Durham, NC

We are looking to hire a medium level ColdFusion developer in our dynamic and challenging work environment. The position is full time, on-site position with SRA Global Health Sector. Here are the few highlights

  • Strong knowledge of ColdFusion including experience with CFCs and custom tags
  • Strong knowledge of XHTML, CSS, AJAX, XML and JavaScript
  • Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Patterns
  • Experience with frameworks such as MachII, Fusebox, ColdSpring is a big plus
  • Must be a quick learner and able to take initiative

For further details and application process. please follow this link

http://sra.com/careers/search.php

and search for requisition number "21107BR"

or you can contact me at qasimrasheed AT gmail DOT com

IT Cartoon

I have not blogged for a while - combination of MBA classes, work issues and Ramadan have kept me quite busy. Anyways here is an interesting list of various cartoons related to IT and Programmers. Most of them are quite hilarious.

Comics Related to IT/Programmers

Enjoy

Edit:

I just realized that this is the original source of these cartoons

Stack Overflow

MBA - Orientation

I am going to start part-time MBA this fall at Jenkins School of Management which is part of the North Carolina State University. Today was our first full day of orientation which turned out to be very informative and exciting. The day started with breakfast and an introductory session by the Dean of Business School. It was followed by following sessions and then lunch (which was just ok).

  • Academics and course sequence
  • Logistics
  • Q&A session with existing MBA students
  • Career resources and coaching available to NCSU MBA students

However the most interesting part of the entire orientation was the team development session by Dr Tony O'Driscoll who is definitely an excellent and entertaining speaker. I'll try to write more about this session later however these were few highlights.

  • How to be effective and efficient at the same time
  • Paradigm
  • P/PC Balance
  • Ladder of Inference
  • Win-Win Thinking

Overall I am feeling excited to start this new chapter in my life. More about all this later.....

Site was down briefly

My site was down for almost two weeks as I wasn't aware that my hosting company decided to phase out the server where this site lives. I was in no position to complain as this site was hosted there for free :)

Anyways last weekend, I decided to move the site to a new host HostingAtoZ whose prices are very reasonable for a site like this which doesn't get a lot of traffic.

Everything went smooth except that this new host has setProfileString and getProfileString functions blocked which are used by the version of BlogCFC running this site. Anyways it took few modification to the code based on the direction here and everything seems to work well (at least for now).