Last week I posted about a job advertisement I dissected and picked at on the Ruby on Rails mailing-list and now I’m happy to bring you another dissection direct from a job advertisement for a nameless large financial company based in Manhattan.

I take much joy in writing these and I feel a sense of irony that I should be reading job advertisements (I’m out of one next week) and yet I’m picking them apart.

Also on the job front my friend Paul, whom I met back in Ye Olde TAFE days has finally got a real job (he’s only had one other job I know of, and that was cleaning dishes at Charlies). In light of this momentous occasion, the world has announced it will be ending on Monday 28th January 2008 at 9am Australian Central Standard Time. There will be free headless horsemen and enternal damnation for all. Afterwards, there shall be cake. Delicious, moist cake.

Entirely coincidentally, Telstra will be shutting down their CDMA network on the same day.

I replied to a job advertisement on the rubyonrails-talk mailing list, explaining that all job advertisements look the same:

I would only dream that somebody will produce a job advertisement that does not copy the same style as all the others. Someone needs to break free of the mould. If I hear or read another buzzword in a job advertisement I’ll go postal.

In other news, there was a post on Rails Forum by pullmonkey who gave a rather helpful roundup method. His method lets you round up to the nearest 1o. I altered his code some and added in a new method called rounddown which will round it down to the nearest multiple of whatever argument you pass in.