honestly this looks like a little advice on how to format your resumé / look for a job online. I saw nothing about acing the interview or how to write a really killer cover letter. I wrote a post about how to get a programming interview a few months back, I feel it provides more detail than your article
The title is 'How to find a job' not 'How to secure a job'.
Finding the opportunity is the hardest part and cover letters aren't as relevant as what you may think. I'm sure your post is great for interview advice, mine was aimed at helping people get those interviews in the first place.
My experience is that the cover letter was beneficial to getting an interview. In the cover letter I am able to demonstrate that I know about their company and that my skills/experience are a good fit for their position.
I know this was useful from my experience since the interviewers have mentioned that cover letter was very useful or they brought up details from it.
and cover letters aren't as relevant as what you may think
My experience tells me that cover letter relevancy is subjective. Some managers swear they need to read a good one, and others flip right to the resume.
what' he's referring to, in my experience is the fact that microsoft has been trumpeting IE and HTML5 for some time (particularly on windows 7 phone). And that except for the hd7s and samsung focus, windows 7 phones are stuck with ie 7 mobile, which has no HTML5 support. From what I can tell other windows 7 phones cannot run the 7.5 "mango" release, which actually includes an HTML5 capable IE browser.
All of the WP7 devices will be able to run Mango. Mango hasn't been released yet for existing phones, but speculation is that it will happen on Sept 23rd. Although I don't know what the roll out will look like.
To be honest it's fairly obvious now why they were doing that, to pave the way for Win 8's HTML5 driven UI. But I guess they just had to ship the phone OS before they could get it ready.
A few weeks ago I had an article dead'ed after getting 10 upvotes. And now all my submissions are marked dead seemingly permanently. So what am I todo except stop contributing to HN
Thanks for the info, after hearing people praise wordpress as the holy grail of blogging, I found it to be very very slow. Hopefully this plugin will help
WordPress is usually praised for usability, not performance. To make WordPress faster and more efficient, you need a caching plugin like W3 Total Cache. It caches your pages in static files, caches queries and results in memcache, and rewrites css, images, and js to CDN paths if you have a provider. In front of this, I would have Varnish cache as much as possible in memory, for even faster access. W3 Total cache can even invalidate your Varnish cache when pages are updated.
I found that a major contributor to page generation times on Wordpress is the time taken to load and parse all the PHP files. I installed a PHP opcode cache (APC) as I recall, and it made a huge difference, because the parsed representation of all the Wordpress code is cached in memory (or disk). I'd do that before installing any Wordpress caching plugins, though total cache has other nice features, like minification. Plus it has three different levels of caching. You can cache entire generated pages, and/or objects and/or DB results.
