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As there have been lots of job postings these days, so let me keep our post for the weekend!

We’re in need of Ajax, Java, Flash, Flex, ActionScript, PHP, Ruby on Rails Programmers. Look at our recent job posting for details. If you want to keep tap of latest job postings from us, you can subscribe to the Job RSS.

Microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Instead of throwing away what works today, microformats intend to solve simpler problems first by adapting to current behaviors and usage patterns. Microformats are

• a way of thinking about data
• design principles for formats
• adapted to current behaviors and usage patterns
• highly correlated with semantic XHTML, AKA the real world semantics, AKA lowercase semantic web, AKA lossless XHTML
• a set of simple open data format standards that many are actively developing and implementing for more/better structured blogging and web microcontent publishing in general
• “An evolutionary revolution”
• all the above

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To me, it is not that practically possible to listen to podcasts while you’re at your computer, at work. Podcast are different from music and thus need to be listened to with concentration, in a way to understand what the podcast is talking about. One can listen to music and still work but not with podcast. So, how can you save your time, not disturb yourself at work but still be able to listen to podcasts.
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Hibernate is a powerful, high performance object/relational persistence and query service. Hibernate lets you develop persistent classes following object-oriented idiom – including association, inheritance, polymorphism, composition, and collections. Hibernate allows you to express queries in its own portable SQL extension (HQL), as well as in native SQL, or with an object-oriented Criteria and Example API.

Hibernate is a Professional Open Source project and a critical component of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS) suite of products.

References;

• Introduction to Hibernate
• Hibernate – Sourceforce

Lucene is a Java-based open source toolkit for text indexing and searching. It is easy to use, flexible, and powerful — a model of good object-oriented software architecture. Powerful abstractions and useful concrete implementations make Lucene very flexible, and allow new users to get up and running quickly and painlessly. Read the full article – The Lucene search engine: Powerful, flexible, and free.

Lucene – Wikipedia

We were reviewing few ActionScript codes of bunch of developers. It so happened while looking at a group of codes from about 4-5 developers; they looked very similar. We realized that

• they don’t really love whitespace at all
• have abusive usage of eval (it should be avoided as it is already deprecated)
• lots of mc1.mc2.mc3.mc4. type of code (can be avoided by coding to interfaces and letting each entity perform its action and access it through a public API)

Well, they were all from the same corporate/company. So, we were thinking if corporate/company have a tendency or wavelength of coding habits, standards and (bad) practices. Anyway, we have to live with the fact that they can be trained and make them realize what we do and what we should do.

I needed a simple, light and easy to use font management tool for myself and the team. I found coupla commercial ones which are not that costly; and I did found a free one too. I tried the free one, FontHit Font Tools, and this have fulfilled my requirements. Powered by a flexible plugin framework, FontHit Font Tools is available with plugins with which you can view, preview, install, uninstall, print in color, customize size and text of the previews, browse your hard drive and view fonts in convenient categories, use drag-n-drop to add font files (even folders and zip files with fonts) to the preview list. You can also search the web for fonts and font-related webpages right from within the Font Tools, using the FontHit Search plugin. It format support includes – True Type, Open Type, most Raster (Bitmap) and installed Type 1.

FontHit Font Tools Free Download.

Wink is a free and an easy to use screen capture software. It takes specific number of screenshots of the specified window, area or screen including keyboard and mouse events. Infact, one can capture anything in wink. Once a capture is done, the user can edit the thumbnails (key frames), add text, shapes, audio, navigation buttons and/or hyperliks.

Preloaders can also be added in wink and they are customisable to a great extent. The power of wink lies in its optimisation capacity, its low CPU usage and a light footprint. Optionally, a minimal set of color can be selected which reduces the file size amazingly. Wink can export the captured data to PDF which is a great feature by itself.

Thanks to Sagar Parikh for testing this software.