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Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.

fiddling with iPad

jQuery(document).ready(function() {

/*iPad orientation events*/

detectOrientation();
window.onorientationchange = detectOrientation;

function detectOrientation(){

if(typeof window.onorientationchange != 'undefined'){
if(orientation === 90){
// landscape mode
}//end if

else if (orientation === -90){
//Other landscape mode
});

}//end else if

else{
//Portrait mode
}//end else

}
}

iPad touch events:


jQuery("#element").bind("touchstart",function(){
e.preventDefault();
});


jQuery("#element").bind("touchend",function(){
e.preventDefault();
/*Other code here*/
});

jQuery(document).bind("touchstart",function(){
e.preventDefault();
/*Other code here*/
});



});

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Interviews and experience

Last year around same time, I started attending interviews and came across some invaluable pointers which I could share.

• Talk to lot of recruiters/employers and figure out their approach, their expectations in the candidate
• Take up as many interviews as possible, this would help equip ourselves and getting better at cracking them
• Set up for a telephonic interview first in order to let them assess whether they are willing to go ahead
  
• Be utmost professional to them, give them a call when you promised so or be ready to take up the call when you promised to be available
  
• Never take up unprofessional behavior from recruiters/employers, this in itself will show how you are likely be treated once you are there
  
• Read up everything put up in the resume, backing it up with real life incidents
• Keep up in your technology related blogs and trends for at least 2 months before the interview if you do not already practice it
• Note down the questions asked in the interviews and look up answers for those which you couldn't answer.
• If you want to qualify yourself for the job even before attending an interview, develop some reusable code and share it with online community
• Ultimately remember that employer - employee relationship is a business partnership and it should not require employee to jump hoops to get the job
  

If you would like to know something more specific, feel free to ask.