darkmethod's comments

Thanks! This is perfectly timed. I'm looking forward to it. I signed up immediately.

However, it looks like your mailchimp account is setup to link to phpscalingbook.com (which is the wrong domain). I clicked on the "continue to website" link after confirming.

Curl is incredibly useful. However, I noticed that your line above was truncated prematurely.

curl -w "\nTotal time: %{time_total}\nTime pretransfer: %{time_pretransfer}\nTime starttransfer: %{time_starttransfer}\nSize download: %{size_download}\n Speed download: %{speed_download}" www.example.com

I have several apps on my iPad where I prefer white text on black. Within the general settings, I set my "Triple-click Home" button to toggle White/Black. Not perfect, but helpful.

I've seen this method of advancement with those around me at where I work. However, I've had the exact opposite experience that you have had. Although, I'm willing to admit to selection bias regarding the sample of candidates.

Can you please provide more information on this? A link would be fantastic. Thanks.

If I ignore the rating system in this post, I see this list as an exercise to acknowledge my strengths and recognize where my weak points are. Doing so, I came up with a list of areas to explore in the near future.

May I suggest that you refrain from surfing the Internet using IE7 while on a secured military network.

Hi. Message sent. However, your contact form timed out on me.

I've been at Roswell nine years. I intend to retire from here. I'm also a Buffalo native and I can't think of anywhere else in the city I'd rather work.

Roswell is run similarly to a college campus (I've had previous experience supporting NY State colleges), meaning there are many departments, each run fairly independently of each other and each with different technical needs.

The departments usually fall in one of three categories: there is an educational group that works with UB's medical campus, a clinical component that treats patients, and obviously a heavy research component. During my time here, there have been at least four startups/companies that have formed as a result of research I've helped support.

Roswell currently has about 3,300+ employees. The Programmer/Analyst positions you have seen are an attempt to fill needed positions in various departments.

Everyone's version of "cool technologies" is different. I'm of the opinion, for the most part, whatever gets the job done thoroughly and accurately works.

In the past nine years I've written and maintain about 20+ applications in VBscript, C#, Actionscript, PHP, Ruby, etc with the various associated frameworks. Since every department requires something slightly different I've had to adapt as needed. However, recently we've been running with an inhouse PHP framework called Surebert which was/is written by a co-worker.

http://www.surebert.com

https://github.com/surebert

Interestingly enough for me, I've never written anything professionally in Java, but a lot of my co-workers have.

Out of the five of us on the web team, I'm the Apple fanboy. So I'm on a MacBook, iPhone, etc. Another one is on Fedora, another is using a Dell (ugh). To each their own.

And Roswell lets me moonlight on the side. I've had fairly steady freelancing gigs for a couple years now.

Interesting place to work. Good people. Very little complaints (nothing's perfect).

Roswell Park employees also man the phones for the NYS Smokers Quitline.

http://www.nysmokefree.com/

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Agreed.

Some great things are happening in Buffalo/Roswell, this is just one of the more vocal discoveries worthy of attention. I truly hope this trial continues on successfully as the PIs (principal investigators) envision.

On a personal note, I find it mildly entertaining to say that "I code to cure cancer". It is an honor to support incredibly smart people working to eradicate such a horrible array of diseases.

I'm proud to say that I work at Roswell Park. I'm one of five web developers in the IT dept. I write internal applications focused on supporting the many clinical trials happening here.

There is definitely a huge buzz going through Roswell's campus regarding this.

Here is the publicly available information regarding this particular Phase I study.

http://www.roswellpark.org/clinical-trials/list/191511

ThemeForest is a great resource. Thanks for sharing this. I found what I was looking for under the Site Templates dropdown.

People in my office are actually cheering. I hope this is just the first of many companies to rescind their pledge.

I have watched my wife countless times use the search bar in Firefox when she could of easily gone directly to a site using the address bar. Apparently she is not alone.

I'm curious as to where you found this information. Thanks.

The take-aways are:

0. no one is perfect.

1. co-founders keep each other on task.

2. relationships and perspectives matter.

I'm grateful for my co-founder too, however I'll be sending him this for a laugh which I realize is not oa's intent. But then again, doing so may just build that relationship that much stronger which is the oa's intent. Ironic, no?

Thanks for pointing that out. That was clearly the only _strange_ part.

Excellent response. This is surely a worthy topic to discuss yet must done carefully as I'm sure many can relate to this tragedy in some aspect.

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Please use use this service if you are even remotely affected by this discussion in a negative way. I fear this will escalate and push a reader over the edge who doesn't think they have an alternative. They do. If you are one of these, please seek help.

If I receive a notice from a friend of mine recommending a service which I didn't previously request/discuss with him/her, I'm likely to delete the request altogether. Receiving these types of third party requests from a friend feels like spam to me.