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Hacker Dojo's project to connect devs and awesome jobs is back

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Re: Hacker Dojo's project to connect devs and awesome jobs is back

#31

Post by DrJokepu »

NoItAll wrote: post #30
DrJokepu wrote: post #29

Once again, if you decide to use embedded fonts on your website, please always give it a look on Windows first. Font rendering of embedded fonts on Windows can be really terrible, as it is the case of this website.

Not sure what you are referring to... Try Chrome on Windows and get the Extension called "Change Font Family Style". I use Lucida Grande for all websites. You are in control my friend.

Ok, this is a screenshot of Chrome 12 on Windows 7:

http://sqliteinspector.com/hackerfair/win.png

And, for comparison, this is a screenshot of Safari 5.0.5 on Snow Leopard:

http://sqliteinspector.com/hackerfair/mac.png

You can clearly see what I was talking about.

Re: Hacker Dojo's project to connect devs and awesome jobs is back

#32

Post by NoItAll »

DrJokepu wrote: post #31
NoItAll wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure what you are referring to... Try Chrome on Windows and get the Extension called "Change Font Family Style". I use Lucida Grande for all websites. You are in control my friend.

Ok, this is a screenshot of Chrome 12 on Windows 7: http://sqliteinspector.com/hackerfair/win.png And, for comparison, this is a screenshot of Safari 5.0.5 on Snow Leopard: http://sqliteinspector.com/hackerfair/mac.png You can clearly see what I was talking about.

Using Chrome 13 (dev) on Windows 7, font smoothing is working OK on my PC.

Re: Hacker Dojo's project to connect devs and awesome jobs is back

#33

Post by epenn »

DrJokepu wrote: post #31
NoItAll wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure what you are referring to... Try Chrome on Windows and get the Extension called "Change Font Family Style". I use Lucida Grande for all websites. You are in control my friend.

Ok, this is a screenshot of Chrome 12 on Windows 7: http://sqliteinspector.com/hackerfair/win.png And, for comparison, this is a screenshot of Safari 5.0.5 on Snow Leopard: http://sqliteinspector.com/hackerfair/mac.png You can clearly see what I was talking about.

Using Chrome 12 on Windows and it looks exactly like the Mac screenshot for me.

Re: Hacker Dojo's project to connect devs and awesome jobs is back

#34

Post by netmau5 »

This is awesome. My only concern is that I'd end up interviewing with the same companies in the same format anyway. If that is the case, I'd just be making it easier for the hiring side but not gaining myself any advantage.

I suppose people who don't interview well (like me) would benefit from some facetime.

Re: Hacker Dojo's project to connect devs and awesome jobs is back

#36

Post by dcosson »

MrDunham wrote: post #22
dcosson wrote: post #5

Looks awesome! Though by my calculations, the counter will get to 0 days 0 hrs 0 min 0 sec just before midnight EDT on July 16, which is a full 14 hours before the event (but the jquery countdown they're using is probably using the browser's regional time).

Yeah... leave it up to stupid late-night mistakes. Can you believe I programmed this with no javascript experience? (note, I cheated, themeforrest did some of the work and I just REALLY cleaned it up, organized, etc)

Well I definitely know how that is. Looks great, overall.

Re: Hacker Dojo's project to connect devs and awesome jobs is back

#37

Post by MrDunham »

silverlight wrote: post #35

How often are they doing this? 29 days is a little short notice for me to make it...am I going to have to wait a year for it to come around again?

Sorry about the short notice.

We're planning on holding these more often. It may be Hacker Dojo, it may be a spinoff. I'm thinking September though for the next one, depending on how this goes.

Re: Hacker Dojo's project to connect devs and awesome jobs is back

#38

Post by MrDunham »

DrJokepu wrote: post #29

Once again, if you decide to use embedded fonts on your website, please always give it a look on Windows first. Font rendering of embedded fonts on Windows can be really terrible, as it is the case of this website.

Sorry, It looked pretty good on my windows machine - though totally broken on IE.

I'm not a coder or designer, used Themeforrest and a lot of sweat to get the site working. What are your suggestions for fixing the fonts? (dumbed down for a mech. engineer)

Re: Hacker Dojo's project to connect devs and awesome jobs is back

#39

Post by MrDunham »

netmau5 wrote: post #34

This is awesome. My only concern is that I'd end up interviewing with the same companies in the same format anyway. If that is the case, I'd just be making it easier for the hiring side but not gaining myself any advantage. I suppose people who don't interview well (like me) would benefit from some facetime.

This should really help with "getting in the door" without relying on a resume. Also builds cred. before the interview.

Besides those, getting in front of 100 companies at once should boost your valuation :)

Re: Hacker Dojo's project to connect devs and awesome jobs is back

#40

Post by MrDunham »

dcosson wrote: post #36
MrDunham wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah... leave it up to stupid late-night mistakes. Can you believe I programmed this with no javascript experience? (note, I cheated, themeforrest did some of the work and I just REALLY cleaned it up, organized, etc)

Well I definitely know how that is. Looks great, overall.

Thank you! Took a lot of nit-picking and swearing at the computer, but glad it paid off.
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