David Mintz wrote:
I'm not styling with class attributes, but I am linking to my own
stylesheet via fully qualified URL -- is that a crime or something?
Hi David,
I'll second what John said--yes, external stylesheets are evil and will
give you nothing but grief in HTML emails.
CSS support
Mark Armendariz wrote:
As for large projects. While I agree that you won't easily find a big
gig when solo - it is very possible. Every large gig I get usually
involves being invited to a team put together by one of my clients. So,
sure big gigs can be difficult, but they are absolutely poss
Sorry to enter the conversation so late (had a minor outgoing email
issue with the list)...
After 8 years of working from this desk in the windowed corner of my
Brooklyn apartment, I couldn't disagree more with a lot of the sentiment
in this thread. Like tedd, I never have to look for or ask
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Kristina Anderson wrote:
> My question to you Urb: Would you consider me, a person with a non-CS
> university degree (B.A.), and 10 years of actual paid experience, to
> be "self taught" or merely "non traditionally formally educated"...?
> It's true that the skills to be a
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Urb LeJeune wrote:
> profession: "An occupation, such as law, medicine, or engineering,
> that requires considerable training
> and specialized study"
So someone who has degrees in Computer Science has not undergone
"specialized study"?
--
Aj.
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on 2008-04-18 15:09 Kristina Anderson said the following:
tedd,
Like I said, I was (and am) 100% sure he was not talking about me!!
Geez youse guys are dense.
Hans and Kristina are the only ones among you who've actually *seen* me
to know who I'd be referring to when I said "fat people".
-
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 1:54 PM, David Mintz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not styling with class attributes, but I am linking to my own stylesheet
> via fully qualified URL -- is that a crime or something?
Yes, it is. All kinds of evilness could happen with an unvalidated
external stylesheet.
tedd,
Like I said, I was (and am) 100% sure he was not talking about me!!
NO way would he go there. LOL!!!
-- Kristina
> At 12:41 PM -0400 4/18/08, Jerry B. Altzman wrote:
> >on 2008-04-18 12:31 tedd said the following:
> >>At 12:03 PM -0400 4/18/08, Jerry B. Altzman wrote:
> >>>And fat people
Hey, I was 100% sure you were NOT talking about me :)
LOL!!
-- Kristina
> on 2008-04-18 12:31 tedd said the following:
> > At 12:03 PM -0400 4/18/08, Jerry B. Altzman wrote:
> >> And fat people should simply just not eat so much! It's just that
simple!
> > Hey, no reason to get personal ! :-)
Maybe IT people are devalued because when the bosses aren't looking,
we're jacking around online on mailing lists?
Food for thought... I'm one of the mods in the DCPHP community and I
often get pinged by people looking to hire, make an entrance in the
community, or just make their presence known f
I'm not styling with class attributes, but I am linking to my own stylesheet
via fully qualified URL -- is that a crime or something? Anyway, the
problematic snippet looks like this (sorry for the extreme boringness of the
content):
Interpreting Assignment Information
Date and time
Friday, April
I don't get the credits argument -- I think Urb was saying that Drexel counts
their hours in a totally different way (btw, I'm the one who mentioned
Drexel). As far as I know, there is no federal mandate to count hours in a
certain
way -- in other words, standardization is not mandated.
Yo
At 12:41 PM -0400 4/18/08, Jerry B. Altzman wrote:
on 2008-04-18 12:31 tedd said the following:
At 12:03 PM -0400 4/18/08, Jerry B. Altzman wrote:
And fat people should simply just not eat so much! It's just that simple!
Hey, no reason to get personal ! :-)
Ask Hans or Kristina who *they*
Umm -- that was meant to be a bit tongue-in-cheek ...
In a message dated 4/18/2008 12:43:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Maybe I'm being jingoistic, but I really feel that there's an "umph"
> that developers in the US have that isn't as readi
on 2008-04-18 12:31 tedd said the following:
At 12:03 PM -0400 4/18/08, Jerry B. Altzman wrote:
And fat people should simply just not eat so much! It's just that simple!
Hey, no reason to get personal ! :-)
Ask Hans or Kristina who *they* thought I had in mind.
tedd
//jbaltz
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jerry b.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe I'm being jingoistic, but I really feel that there's an "umph"
that developers in the US have that isn't as readily available elsewhere.
Cue The Star Spangled Banner!!
Which is why stuff gets sent to India, China, or now Russia. Or in my case
Germany (how iro
Urb LeJeune wrote:
You may be comparing apples and oranges. Some schools use
quarter semesters
which are 12 week semesters. The most common are 16 week semesters. So 150
quarter hours would be equivalent to 112 semester hours.
You mentioned Drexal, I believe they use quarter h
At 12:03 PM -0400 4/18/08, Jerry B. Altzman wrote:
And fat people should simply just not eat so much! It's just that simple!
Hey, no reason to get personal ! :-)
Cheers,
tedd
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On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:56 AM, David Mintz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I had a user complain that the data column was empty on Yahoo! with IE 7.
> She forwards the offending message to my own Yahoo, and it displays (in
> Firefox 2).
I wonder if Yahoo! is sending different stylesheets to IE an
on 2008-04-18 10:38 tedd said the following:
Because, well, sometimes hard and fast specs aren't available, and
working face to face with someone allows better communication.
It's as simple and as profound as that.
It may allow quicker communication, but that can be handled by telephone.
Some
Hey everybody
My script builds and sends and HTML email using Zend_Mail. The resulting
email shows up fine in some email clients but not others. On gmail and
Thunderbird it's fine. On Yahoo! email it doesn't (for some browsers,
apparently). The body contains a bi-columnar HTML table, as in label =
I think there shouldn't be a general rule -- or maybe it's correlated with
the size of the system and the level of specialization desired. I assume a lot
of independents are catering to small and medium-sized businesses.
Maybe it's apples and oranges. It's actually kind of nice that the var
Good question :-)
I actually have one full time - and very valuable - employee working completely
from home, in FL nonetheless. I have a graphic designer working full time from
Croatia. Both are important to the company, neither is part of a team.
For the dev group - which is where my heart lie
I agree with you about the WWD article, Jason, and I'm actually not a
CIO or upper management.
I telecommuted for a company out of state for a year, and then quit
because I could see that it simply wasn't going to work out. I agree
that you need some face-to-face time to iron out specs.
However,
-Original Message-
From: Scott Trudeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Relevant article:
"Why your boss doesn't want you to telework" - Web Worker Daily
[http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/04/10/why-your-boss-doesnt-want-you-to-telework/]
http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/04/10/why-your-boss-doesnt-want-y
Written by a telecommuter...and complete crap
As a real life CIO, and not the fictional "suit" manager - you know, the kind
that "can't understand true technology" - please know that nothing at all
mentioned in that article even comes close to the reasons I like my developers
to be here.
For t
At 4:48 PM -0400 4/17/08, Jason Scott wrote:
I am not against working from home, but I believe it works better as
the exception, and not the rule, which is the complete opposite of
what I'm hearing so far.
The digital nature of the work is changing the work ethic.
For the exception of discuss
Relevant article:
"Why your boss doesn't want you to telework" - Web Worker Daily
http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/04/10/why-your-boss-doesnt-want-you-to-telework/
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:50 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe I'm being jingoistic, but I really feel that there's an "umph"
Maybe I'm being jingoistic, but I really feel that there's an "umph" that
developers in the US have that isn't as readily available elsewhere.
Cue The Star Spangled Banner!!
In a message dated 4/17/2008 4:50:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On the upside, getting used
Suit types? Geek types? Windoze vs Mac? Discrimination?
I think it is time for my involvement in this thread to end :-) Either that or
my head is going to explode.
Jason Scott | Chief Information Officer
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Ph: 212.509.5218 ext 226 | Fax: 866-797-0971
Yeah, the IT culture is a lot different, and I guess business culture is
still trying to fit IT into their standard model.
It's too bad in a way -- the beauty of not working in a 9-5 workplace is that
independents are often available for a lot more hours. I'm basically
available from 9am to
on 2008-04-17 15:46 Tim Lieberman said the following:
Why people insist on on-site work is a bit beyond me. If you're willing
Because, well, sometimes hard and fast specs aren't available, and
working face to face with someone allows better communication.
It's as simple and as profound as th
And that is my point. As mentioned in other emails, the BSEE program I
randomly picked as it was one of the top results from Google asked
for a total
of 132 credits and from those 60 credits that were basically labeled as
non-major courses, so that is about half of all course work required. I
At 1:46 PM -0600 4/17/08, Tim Lieberman wrote:
Why people insist on on-site work is a bit beyond me. If you're
willing to pay well, you should be able to attract capable
developers who can be trusted to work remotely. If you want to hire
a bunch of juniors to churn out hacks all day, and have
Oh yeah -- I'm sure a lot of independents comtemplate that, that being
independent may deprive one of a large infrastructure, more money, big complex
projects, that independents may not get access to.
My comment was that perhaps it's sort of genetic -- that maybe the
personality that drives
In a message dated 4/17/2008 10:10:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> David, I'm shocked that a CS MS would require anything outside of the
> field, that seems very odd to me. Maybe things have changed since the
> *cough, cough* years since I got
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