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Friday April 18, 2003

A Good Job vs. Good Pay

I did the interview with the University of Miami this morning. I was interviewed by a roundtable of folks and the questions weren't too bad - there were some fun ones and some technical ones (i.e. the classic, "what's the difference b/w an interface and an abstract class"). The people sounded very cool and it'd probably be a great team to work on. The pay, however, is not very good at all. However, they said they'd try to work on that. The itneresting thing I've learned is that the best paying jobs are usually the worst jobs. At least that's how it's been for me. I don't know if people just expect more from you, and portray this in the form of micro-management or what, but it sucks to have a job you don't like.

My current job? I love it. Not only because we're using all the cool technologies I like (Ant, Struts, Hibernate, XDoclet, etc.), but also because the people are very cool. Our 8:30 a.m. meetings are actually fun to attend. We poke fun at each other and there's lots of laughter in the room. Today has been an especially good day - I got club level seats to the Rockies Game (baseball) tonight, and also got invited to a pre-release viewing of Matrix Reloaded. Now those are what I call benefits! And, unfortunately, I'm also making the same rate I made six months after I graduated from college. Back then, I couldn't believe how much I was making, and now it's enough to support Julie, Abbie and I (and I'm the only one who works), so it's not too bad.

The problem is the gig at U of M pays around 1/2 of what I'm making now. It'd be an awesome job though. It sounds like they have great people and I'm sure the perks are good (maybe free tuition for my masters?). Look at me talking like I already got the job - I probably just jinxed myself - especially since I gave them the URL to this site. Oh well, if you guys are reading - it sounds like an awesome position, but I don't know if I can support my family on that salary. In fact, I've had such little luck finding a decent paying job in Florida, Julie has started considering a non-move. That is, we might stay in Denver. Jobs here seem to be picking up, and my current contract doesn't seem to have any end in site. They're even talking about putting us on a project developing mobile apps in Java.

Miami is calling though, especially on this cold April afternoon. Now I'm off to freeze my ass off at the Rockies' game. Good thing they're club level seats so we can just sit inside if it's too cold.

Posted in General at Apr 18 2003, 04:35:00 PM MDT 2 Comments

No Dice on Comments

I tried Dave's suggestion for comments, but no dice. Here's what I have: 

   #set( $comments = $entry.comments )
   <comments>
   #foreach( $comment in $comments )
   <comment id="$comment.id">
      <author>$comment.name</author> 
      <email />
      <url />
      <timestamp>$comment.postTime</timestamp>
      <body>
         $comment.content
      </body>
   </comment>
   #end
   </comments>

It looks like this Velocity template expects to be a part of something great that exposes the $entry variable. Is it possible to simply pass in an entryid and have the XML generated for that. That's what I really want.

BTW, isn't it lovely how it tries to process the template above? Doesn't seem to for Dave - oh well.

Posted in Roller at Apr 18 2003, 02:43:21 PM MDT 2 Comments