Source favicon21:54 The Golden Age of Split Testing » Search Marketing Standard Blog
The need to constantly test and optimize your landing pages should not come as a surprise to anyone. This is usually done with the help of A/B split testing, when two versions of the landing page are...
Source favicon21:38 Y+ 瑜珈馆 » 刀枪Blue
thecoolhunter 这次看上了上海的 Y+ 瑜珈馆。 Y+ 在上海有两处,看来他们的装饰风格颇得 thecoolhunter 编辑的喜爱,入口和室内设施的配色装饰跟瑜珈馆的角色很搭调。 唯一觉得不搭调的是,既然这样倾心于营造自然,安静的环境,何苦要把地方安排到新天地,换个方向说,此间道理每个不练瑜珈的人都懂。
Source favicon21:37 Amazon Launches Its Own Q&A Service » Search Marketing Standard Blog
As reported by Philipp , Amazon has launched its own Question & Answer service, called Askville. Right now it's in invite-only beta. The site looks clean and the service is completely...
Source favicon20:50 Gaim QQ和Filezilla » Blog on 27th Floor
又有两个新软。首先是Debian Unstable(sid)里的聊天工具Gaim已经跟着主站升级到了2.0beta4,并且在协议里面直接带上了QQ,不需要自己再去编译什么了。似乎这个协议的开发最近又起来了,而且腾讯也想开了?

添加QQ账号,服务器写sz4.tencent.com,数字从没有直到10吧,端口号8000,用UDP即可,好像TCP登录的服务器还不一样。登上之后会在好友列表中单开一个QQ的组,账号上还会有修改信息及头像的功能。不过,QQ上面已经没人聊天了,只是晒晒我的6位号罢了。

还有开源的Filezilla也已经迁移到Linux上,并且已经进了Sid源,直接apt-get install即可。界面同Windows下面没什么不同,功能也可以,带普通FTP和SFTP。试一台NT服务器时Pasv模式不能列出目录,转为活动模式才行;感觉有点怪,因为我的机器也在路由后面,不可能设这个模式,不知道是不是翻译错了。其实平时gftp对我也已经够用了,什么中文目录名的问题也没有机器来试。只是因为在Win下一直用Filezilla(推荐,够用好用而且是自由软件),也想在Linux下面用上。
Source favicon20:37 招聘会见闻 » DBA notes

今天去参加阿里巴巴在浙江大学的招聘会。我的职责是面试 DBA 岗位的应聘者。到了才知道,昨天 600 多人参加了笔试,报名 DBA / SA / 测试的人并不多,通过笔试的更是少的可怜,后来又多通知了几个人,一天下来,还是没有找到很合适的,倒是给其他部门推荐了两个。

说一点自己的感受与印象。

1) 关于简历 很多人的简历都有 4、5页,其实完全没有必要,一页纸就足够了,把真正有用的信息写在里面。既然是计算机专业毕业的本科生、研究生,那就更没有必要把 "熟悉 Windows 操作系统、熟悉 Office,熟悉 HTML" 之类的话写在里面(这样写的人还不少)。

2) 计算机教育的失败 有的计算机专业研究生,声称自己精通 C/C++ ,问一下写过的最大的程序有多少行代码,一般的都没有超过 1000 行--还是实验室部署的作业性质的,少的呢,只说写过 100 行左右的 C 代码。至于其他语言,"学校没有教,所以没有弄过。" 似乎浙江大学计算机专业的学生开课都是 C++ ,所以真的很难找到自己学过 Java 的人。现在基础课程的教材,基本上还是好多年前的那几本,唯一的不同可能是作者不一样了,现在不都流行任课老师"自己编写教材"么。一些学生有和老师做项目的经验,不过这些项目一般都是什么"科技攻关"之类的,基本上没有什么创新在里面,要说创新就是项目的名字创新,这些导师可以用来换取名头。

3) 赶场似的面试 可能很多学生就是所谓的"面霸"吧,几乎不对面试做什么准备,没有明确的目的。来面试之前也很少有人了解一下该岗位到底是做什么的,也很少有人在网络上获取该公司的背景。就用他/她在课堂学的那点玩意儿准备"不变应万变",太难了。

4) 对业界环境很陌生 不知道是不是因为被教育网隔离的缘故,校园 BBS 、书刊报纸似乎是学生们的主要消息来源。而互联网的一些新应用没有几个人关心过。说起来这个狗日的教育网也真有些莫明其妙,也就是我们的教育环境是把学生放在"互联网的温室"里吧

也有给我留下很深印象的学生。有个从南开到这边来面试的学生(老家是浙江的),能看出他对面试是做了很充分的准备的,本身底子也非常好。这样的我当然要强力推荐一下:)

现在的学生底线可真的不高。本科生一般 2000-3000,研究生 5000-7000。研究生一抓一大把,或许这就是"劣币驱逐良币"的一种表现形式吧。

毕业求职,想想自己当年凑巧进入这个行业算是幸运的了。

面试真是一个体力活,回到家里,浑身快散了。

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Source favicon11:05 DSIcons: Pimp Your (Virtual) Ride » Movable Type News
A bunch of us at Six Apart are incredible nerds video gaming enthusiasts, so we were happy to discover DSicons, a site aimed squarely at fans of Mario Kart DS, Nintendo’s kart racing game. Now, we talk a good game about the big, serious Fortune 500 businesses using Movable Type...
Source favicon11:02 Interview with Adam Sah of Google » Googling Google
Adam Sah on the Google Gadgets team talks about a newer product from Google called "Gadgets For Your Web Page" on the Google Code Blog.  He outlines a few limitations that currently exist in version 1 of the service.   Make sure your gadget supports 200-pixel content widths for placement on third-party web pages. While Google [...]
Source favicon10:08 brian eno music paintings » information aesthetics

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a collection of computer-generated art works that combines & layers Brian Eno's hand-made slides based on parameters from his ambient music. the program can generate 77 million different artworks automatically. Eno said: "I think of these things as visual music ... intended to occupy television downtime so that, instead of having a dead hole in the wall, you have a living picture."

[links: allsaintsrecords.com & sean.co.uk & amazon.com]

Source favicon06:55 Google’s 3Q profits almost doubled » Googling Google
Google's profits have nearly doubled since last year, and after-market trading for Google is going crazy.  Since the conference call and press release, the stock has gained $33 per share — impressive.
Source favicon06:04 The rebirth of cool » Official Google Blog




Have you ever been involved in a project that you've seen evolve from an idea to a work in progress to a full-fledged product? I just had that experience with mobile.google.com. If you visited that URL yesterday, you would have seen some pretty basic information presented in a fairly simple format. Today you'll find a streamlined layout and some new ways to learn about Google's mobile offerings. Want to take a live test run of the traffic feature on Google Maps for mobile? Or maybe figure out how to stay on top of your Gmail using your phone? We've included video tutorials or emulators for every service or application, and we've designed the pages in such a way as to make it easy to learn more about the mobile offerings you're interested in. You can even have Google send a link to your mobile device via a text message that will help you start using Google mobile services with just a few clicks. You just enter your mobile number on the desktop version of mobile.google.com and we'll text you the link.



My favorite part of the site is probably the Google SMS demo. I think this SMS search is one of the coolest out there, and I'm always urging my friends and family to give it a try. The demo shows you firsthand just how useful and easy to use SMS is, with more than a dozen sample queries to try out and a search box for typing in your own. In fact I'm playing around with it now -- did you know that you can use Google SMS to get the address of an Ethiopian restaurant in Chicago, the exchange rate for dollars to baht, a weather forecast for Wamego, Kansas, or the score of the latest MLB playoff game?



Anyway, if you haven't already, head over to this new improved site and give it a whirl. And as always, don't be shy about sending us feedback -- we're always looking for ways we can make it even better.
Source favicon02:38 Enhancement: Sort option for table columns available. » AWStats Enhancements and "how to" Resource Center - Antezeta
Based on a posting in the AWStats Fourum, we've created a patch to add column sorting to AWStats tables. http://www.antezeta.com/awstats.html#EN1
Source favicon02:38 Enhancement: Combat referrer Spam by removing HEAD processing. » AWStats Enhancements and "how to" Resource Center - Antezeta
http://www.antezeta.com/awstats.html#EN2
Source favicon02:38 Added detection for SeaMonkey browser » AWStats Enhancements and "how to" Resource Center - Antezeta
We've updated our version of browsers.pm to detect the SeaMonkey browser. SeaMonkey is based on the Mozilla browser - e-mail suite.
Source favicon02:38 38 additional new robots detected. » AWStats Enhancements and "how to" Resource Center - Antezeta
We've added detection for 38 additional robots.
Source favicon02:38 25 additional search engines available in search engine detection file search_engines.pm » AWStats Enhancements and "how to" Resource Center - Antezeta
We've updated our version of search_engines.pm to detect additional engines, many specific to the German market.
Source favicon00:22 Flash Player 9Beta推出Linux版 » Blog on 27th Floor
长期以来,Linux平台上可用的Flashplayer最高版本是7,有些采用了Flash 8的网站就没办法看,比如前一段Google推出的达芬奇密码游戏网站就要求Flash8,还有人前些天要抗议丰田的网站,好像也是这个问题。

不过现在Adobe总算推出了Flash9的Linux版,当然也有Win和Mac平台。虽然这是个Beta版,不过还没看到什么问题。看网页上的小Flash动画,看Youtube的视频都可以。听说Wallop会搞死这个Beta,不过没账号,也就没试。

下载是个tgz包,打开,只有两个文件,一个6MB多的so,一个readme。readme里说明了安装方法,就是拷贝到浏览器的Plugin目录即可。通常对Firefox来说,Plugin目录有~/.mozilla/plugin,以及全局的/usr/lib/mozilla/plugin。放好so文件,重启Firefox即可。可以在地址栏里输入about:plugins来查看安装结果:

File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 9.0 d55

其他Firefox的插件安装方法可以参考mozdev的这一页插件安装专用文档,非常有用的。

目前这个Linux版的Flash9beta好像还不能用于Opera。

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