<– This is what happened to 70% of the applications for a junior web designer position that I recently advertised on Bizcommunity.

Over and above the fact that the applicants who’s CVs managed to make it to the recycle bin did so because they didn’t have the necessary skills, weren’t residing in the right province, weren’t junior enough or generally didn’t fit the criteria, there were some common errors made by almost all these applicants that could have cost them the job even if they did meet the criteria.

I am a freelancer, there’s no HR department here, I got seriously frustrated with the quality of applications (not necessarily applicants); so what do you think your chances are when you’re up against hordes of other people applying for the same position at a larger company with an HR squad that doesn’t have insight into the position offered, just a checklist that should include these points: (more…)

Disclaimer: I would like to state (for the record) that I am not a programmer by any stretch of the imagination (I live on XHTML/CSS) and that the method below would not have been possible for me to implement without the help of two of my good programmer friends – Nielo and Stii … thanks – you guys rock (but then you already knew that). I have to point out that I have a firm grasp of the principles, it’s just my syntax mastery that is severely lacking, so the method is all mine, the code … not necessarily so.

Anyhow … to the point of this post. It would seem that one of the most requested features for BuddyPress, is a means of dividing (or at the very least being able to select individually) the member profile info groups. I needed to do this and also create a simple navigation to the profile groups, so my solution had two components. (more…)

Google have added four new themes to the already awesome list available for GMail … gotta love it – here’s mine

Top Score 8-bit Theme FTW

It is no secret that the USA has a vested interest in Africa and that there is a lot of talk about social responsibility and even more questions as to how they are going to clean up the mess they made by exploiting the African people for minerals. Most of this stuff is just politics and PR (and not the point of this post).

Uncle Sam is getting serious about Africa and is using social media channels to drive initiatives and spread the word … most of us are oblivious to this and even more couldn’t care less about trawling the internet for information related to this topic; but what if you could aggregate this information? Planned visits to African states, speeches, tweets, photos … Yes We Can! (more…)

So … Microsoft would like you to believe that their latest re-draft of the Internet Explorer joke (which is getting very old indeed) now has a new, improved punchline … about the only thing that they can guarantee you, is that you’ll laugh twice as much as ever before. I mean come on – how can a company that has done so much for the personal computer (market?) get it so wrong so consistently? (more…)