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Just a few thoughts...

I cannot remember how many various job interviews I have passed in my professional career. Maybe fifteen, or twenty, or maybe more. Some of them were successful, some of them not. However, very rarely I have met a really good recruitment process. Whether in Eastern Europe or in Canada – I noticed that everywhere.

Sometimes it was just a waste of my time when, for example, the potential employer declared something like: "Actually, we are looking for a specialist with a slightly different skills set" or "Unfortunately, we are limited with our budget and cannot offer you the salary that you are seeking. How about a salary 20% less than you are making now?". Seriously?!! Guys, you were aware about my salary expectations before you asked me to come for the in-person interview!

Keep in mind that for every such interview candidate should make some time to prepare, leave early from the current job (or come in later), and maybe even take a day off. Also, potential employers are spending their time too! So, why should they both waste time if a short phone call may help to figure out whether it makes sense to meet or not?!

Just a little bit of humour from programmer's life. :-)

If you have a problem and you have to solve it using regular expressions, then you have two problems! :-)

Basic approach and main idea

Very often, web designers use CSS rounded corners to make websites nicer. This blog uses rounded corners too. You could use different methods to create rounded corners on your web site, but from my point of view the simplest one of these methods is the method that uses CSS3.

Unfortunately, this method won't work in IE (what a surprise!), but, fortunately, there is a hack exists that can fix this problem.

For most of web browsers the following code will work:

<style>
#container {
  width: 200px;
  height: 200px;
  background-color: #cccccc;	
}
.rounded {
  -moz-border-radius: 10px; /* Works in Firefox */
  -webkit-border-radius: 10px; /* Works in Safari, Chrome */
  border-radius: 10px; /* It's CSS3 */
}
</style>

<div id="container" class="rounded"></div>

This is a very frequently asked question: "How much should a web site cost?". It's not that easy to answer this question because of a lot of a number of nuances related to website creation.

By chance, I found a very good post where professionals try to determine a formula to calculate the cost for web site creation.

There is also a nice calculator where in a few clicks you can calculate approximate total cost.

Enjoy - http://www.webpagefx.com/How-much-should-web-site-cost.html.

For some programmers (especially for begginers) it might be a bit difficult to understand how do SQL joins work in real life. In fact, sometimes even experienced software developers are not able to explain what is the difference between JOIN, LEFT JOIN and RIGHT JOIN.

Luckily, I found, perhaps, one of the best visual representations of SQL joins I have ever seen which will definately help to understand the mechanism of SQL joins.

See more graphical diagrams and explanations here

I have already posted a post with some SEO optimization tips. Let's continue this topic.

1. Try to put your keywords and key phrases closer to the beginning (top) of the page.

2. Use sitemap.xml to give search engines more information about the structure of your web site and pages.

3. Use mod_rewrite to build user-friendly URLs. www.yourdomain.com/cars/toyota/corolla looks better much than www.yourdomain.com/index.php?cat=cars&make=toyota&model=corolla.