The biggest changes were full Vista support and the removal of the 65,536 piece limit for torrents.
Also added was support for finding local peers (peers on the same LAN) and optionally not having any upload restrictions for them.
It is also possible to turn on automatic updating for betas now, found in the "Other" section of the preferences.
http://download.utorrent.com/1.7.1/utorrent.exe
Quick notes from the "My Job Went To India" book... So far it's a career strategy book that mixes business, common sense (business), and IT. It talks about choosing an IT career by analyzing current market trends -- US and offshore --, weighting new, mainstream, and dying technologies, specializing, generalizing, and making sure programmers understand the business domain. It explains the history of CIOs, Architects, Designers, and Programmers ... many mentions to Java and Ruby. Encourages you to explore other technologies and languages, investing in yourself ... take the time to learn and teach ... the best learning is done through teaching. See your career as a business, where there's a supply and demand, low risk yield to low gains, and high risk could yield to high gains or no gains at all. I liked the section about interviews and skill set gaming theory.
So I just got today a book my buddy John Paul Ashenfelter recommended: My Job Went To India And All I Got Was This Lousy Book. He admits it may be the worst title for a tech book, ever, but it might be the best pragmatic programming book out there. Well, I trust JP on all pragmatic development, Agile, XP, and Deployment Automation, so this book must be good... I'll post reviews as soon as I find time to read it :)
* I'm finally back from all my traveling.
* Cannes was great; we got shortlisted for the Guinness Hands microsite
* CFUnited was great; gave the 8h flex class to about 20 students. IMHO it went pretty well; tons of examples, started slow and then got well advanced. Then I gave two sessions, one on Factories and one of Flex and Ajax. I liked the factories one, but I wasn't fully satistied with the Flex/Ajax one.
* Happy 4th of July.
* I ordered my new MacBook Pro yesterday. It may take a few weeks (so they said), because I chose to upgrade the HD to a 7200RPM one.
* I will be speaking at Max on ColdFusion (CFMX8) Powered Ajax
* I'm officially hooked into ANT now and will release some scripts soon.
Apple is making more drastic updates to its MacBook Pro lineup. The company announced that its new MacBook Pros are now built on the Santa Rosa platform and features the latest GeForce 8 series mobile GPUs from NVIDIA and LED backlighting on 15.4” models. If you fork over $2,499, you'll be greeted with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 160GB HDD and a 256MB version of the NVIDIA GeForce Go 8600M GT -- all other specifications remain the same. They finally allow to upgrade to a 7200RPM HD, 4Gb of RAM ... That's it, I'm getting one.
The $1,999 entry-level MacBook Pro features a 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of DDR2-667 memory, 120GB 5400RPM HDD, NVIDIA GeForce Go 8600M GT (128MB) and a 15.4" 1400x900 LED-backlit display.
We’re looking for someone who eats, sleeps, and breaths Flash ActionScript.
iChameleon Group offers an incredible career building full-time position working with notable National + International companies. Some of our client projects include Mini-Cooper, EarthLink, Slim Jim, De Beer’s, Bridgestone, and Coke. Our fast growing company develops various exciting, innovative, and high profile websites and applications fusing media, video, audio and Flash.
We strongly suggest viewing our portfolio at www.ichameleongroup.com to understand the quality of work.
We are a fun, eccentric, hardworking, creative group in a business casual environment. We are looking for a dynamic, motivated team player who will enjoy working in a fast-paced, deadline driven, ever changing development and solution-based environment.
Requirements, skills + abilities:
Team Player
Self Starter
Interactive site development experience
3+ years of experience
Flash MX 2004 / Flash 8 / CS3
ActionScript 1.0 / 2.0 / 3.0, XML
Strong Motion Graphics
Ability to create animation via ActionScript as well as the traditional timeline.
Knowledge of Flash Components
Experience with Flash Remoting
PC fluent (Mac A Plus)
Solid communications skills (written and verbal)
Outgoing, Energetic Personality
Good Organizational Skills
Detail oriented, strong follow-up skills and ability to work on multiple projects.
Additional bonus skills:
Flash Communication Server
Photoshop
Illustrator
Dreamweaver MX 2004
HTML
CSS
Experience in producing games and game interfaces.
ColdFusion, ASP, PHP, PERL, or any other web language.
After Effects
Final Cut
Ability to levitate things with your mind.
Want to come join our team? Submit your resume and cover letter, including salary history, to hr@ichameleongroup.com
iChameleon Group offers an incredible career building full-time position working with notable National + International companies. Our fast growing company develops various exciting, innovative, and high profile applications fusing media, video, audio and Flash.
We are a fun, eccentric, hardworking, creative group in a business casual environment. We are looking for a dynamic, motivated team player who will enjoy working in a fast-paced, deadline driven, ever changing development and solution-based environment.
The successful ColdFusion web developer candidate must posses:
* The ability to support for the full application development life cycle activities of software products and development.
* Demonstrated skills in documenting development.
* Strong problem solving and debugging skills.
requirements, skills + abilities:
* Team Player
* Self Starter
* Interactive site development experience
* 2-5 years of experience
* ColdFusion MX 7
* Object Oriented Programming
* Experience with Flash Remoting
* Database design and SQL
* HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
* PC fluent (Mac A Plus)
* Solid communications skills (written and verbal)
* Outgoing, Energetic Personality
* Good Organizational Skills
* Detail oriented, strong follow-up skills and ability to work on multiple projects
additional skills:
* Macromedia Certified ColdFusion MX 7
* Framework Knowledge (Fusebox, Mach II, Model-Glue,Tartan)
* Design Patterns
* UML
* AJAX
* ASP, PHP, PERL, or any other web language
* CVS and/or subversion experience
Want to come join our team? Submit your resume and cover letter, including salary history, to hr@ichameleongroup.com
Every day you discover a little more about Google, this one is quite interesting.
