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My Graduation Countdown
I graduate on Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 2:00pm from the University of St. Thomas with a degree in Quantitative Methods and Computer Science, and a minor in Journalism and Mass Communication. Each day I remind my co-workers of the number of days till my graduation. They joked that I should have a millisecond countdown. So running through May 17, I will have a graduation countdown in the right hand column of my blog. Here's to you, Web and Media Services:
* Yes, Jared, it's backed by Prototype :)
db4o is pretty cool. I think I may stay for a while.
I've vented before on this blog regarding my frustrations with Hibernate as an ORM solution... and I'm not so sure I like ORM altogether. It's like trying to screw in a phillips screw (relational DB) with a flathead screwdriver (object-oriented language). You know it's not the correct tool, but you really don't wanna switch screwdrivers and go grab something new. With enough fiddling you'll probably be able to screw in the philips screw in, but it takes an incredible amount of finess, frustration, and patience to get the job done. Then taking the screw out later is a big pain in the ass since you stripped it putting it in with the wrong tool.
Wubi - It works. It's easy. It's Ubuntu Linux.
I am a big Ubuntu fanboy. The Ubuntu (and other *buntu flavors) developers really got the distribution right. I have 3-4 different Ubuntu-related RSS feeds in my reader. One of them told me about Issue 8 of Full Circle Magazine, a free Ubuntu magazine. Inside there was an article on an interesting new project, Wubi, an Ubuntu installer for Windows.
Pause.
Search for Quality Competitive Links
The following Yahoo search query will give you your compeition's links that aren't part of link exchanges and otherwise useless link pages.
link:http://www.yourcompetition.com -site:www.yourcompetition.com -links -linking -resource -resources -partner -partners
It's not perfect because a quality resource may in fact have a links page, but for the most part, this will get the job done quick and dirty. I will say this though, make sure your internal link structure is optimized before you go sniffin' the competition. Peace.
