https://bphogan.com/2006/08/Recent content in 2006/08 on Brian P. HoganHugo -- gohugo.ioen-ushttps://bphogan.com/2006/09/13/it-jobs/Wed, 13 Sep 2006 17:37:30 +0000https://bphogan.com/2006/09/13/it-jobs/Getting a job in the IT field can be really difficult unless you know people or know how to market yourself. It’s not enough just to know your stuff. The people who get the jobs are the ones who either know someone who can get them a gig or are really good at promoting themselves. You might think that promoting yourself means being a big egomaniac and bullshitting people into hiring you.https://bphogan.com/2006/08/28/festival-in-the-pines/Mon, 28 Aug 2006 06:29:07 +0000https://bphogan.com/2006/08/28/festival-in-the-pines/We went to the Festival in the Pines on Sunday with Dad. There were over 250 craft booths there with people selling all sorts of things from music CDs to jewelery to wooden furnture. I saw quite a bit of things that I would have loved to buy but I had no way to get them home safely. It was hard to do that festival without Mom though. For years, even when I was very little, we’d all go together and look at the exhibits, enjoy the food, and roast in the unbearable hot temperatures.https://bphogan.com/2006/08/28/book/Mon, 28 Aug 2006 06:23:50 +0000https://bphogan.com/2006/08/28/book/I signed the contract for my new book. It’ll be around 250 pages and I hope to have it done by January. The book will show programmers how to make things look pretty. I’m hoping to make it as easy to follow as possible for people who don’t have a formal design background so this process will be pretty interesting. I’ve got a pretty large outline done and I’ve started working on the excercises for the tutorial sections of the book.https://bphogan.com/2006/08/10/rails-problems/Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:27:31 +0000https://bphogan.com/2006/08/10/rails-problems/I spend a lot of time working with the Ruby programming language and the Rails framework. There was a huge security vulnerability announced today and we were all told to apply the patch. Unfortunately we weren’t told exactly why, or what the vulnerability is. Many of us have looked at the source code and figured it out. Looks like the storm is over. The core team has patched the holes and most people are safe.