Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Why is it important to know how to interpret non-verbal Communication for recruiting?
I have been recently attracted to all social behavior studies, call it in person or online, I did not study a psychology related major but when you have to interact with people pretty often you tend to get interested in these subjects. As a recruiter knowing how to see what people are “not saying” can help you in making a much more efficient decision, this doesn’t mean - that you will know when people are lying - but that you will know when to find yellow flags and make more inquiries about it.
Just like when they say about people talking to you, and rolling their eyes to the right means they are making things up and when they roll them to the left they are remembering something, or if they are looking away from you while talking they are not being truthful. I don’t honestly paid attention to it, mainly because I can never tell my right from my left!, but the important thing is, everyone is different and lately there has been a great deal of studies mentioning that eye contact is not a sign of people telling lies.
To read the full article click here.
Just like when they say about people talking to you, and rolling their eyes to the right means they are making things up and when they roll them to the left they are remembering something, or if they are looking away from you while talking they are not being truthful. I don’t honestly paid attention to it, mainly because I can never tell my right from my left!, but the important thing is, everyone is different and lately there has been a great deal of studies mentioning that eye contact is not a sign of people telling lies.
To read the full article click here.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
How to Create a RESTful application using MVC Rest library
By Fernando G.
Overview
First off, we need to have a quick overview of what REST means to the development community, and we can start by what does REST stands for? It stands for Representational State Transfer. Right, it did not help a lot, right?
In the SOA era, we have Service Oriented Systems interacting between them exposing Services, some applications act as consumers and some as producers. At the end, a Service Oriented Architecture allows an organization to create a well thought and organized set of libraries being used uniformly among all of the participants with no redundancy of business rules and specially having a single set of Services. Well, not always the case. It results extremely painful when the Services are done in different technologies; Interoperability between the different implementations is the major issue among Service consumers and producers. Another problem is that development teams do not take in considerations to other areas of the company. This ends up with duplicate Services because they do not provide what the potential consumers need, it is too painful to reuse.
Well, REST style architecture is one alternative to SOA. REST is all about identifying Resources and not Services. These Resources are Stateless, Cacheable and in consequence are stable, scalable, with high performance and simple.
Asp.Net MVC
Microsoft saw a huge potential to MVC pattern for web development. They already tried with a library called Microsoft User Interface Process (UIP) implementation back in 2003, but it was not very popular among developers so it lost track and its last update was version 2 in 2004.
To read the complete story click here.
Overview
First off, we need to have a quick overview of what REST means to the development community, and we can start by what does REST stands for? It stands for Representational State Transfer. Right, it did not help a lot, right?
In the SOA era, we have Service Oriented Systems interacting between them exposing Services, some applications act as consumers and some as producers. At the end, a Service Oriented Architecture allows an organization to create a well thought and organized set of libraries being used uniformly among all of the participants with no redundancy of business rules and specially having a single set of Services. Well, not always the case. It results extremely painful when the Services are done in different technologies; Interoperability between the different implementations is the major issue among Service consumers and producers. Another problem is that development teams do not take in considerations to other areas of the company. This ends up with duplicate Services because they do not provide what the potential consumers need, it is too painful to reuse.
Well, REST style architecture is one alternative to SOA. REST is all about identifying Resources and not Services. These Resources are Stateless, Cacheable and in consequence are stable, scalable, with high performance and simple.
Asp.Net MVC
Microsoft saw a huge potential to MVC pattern for web development. They already tried with a library called Microsoft User Interface Process (UIP) implementation back in 2003, but it was not very popular among developers so it lost track and its last update was version 2 in 2004.
To read the complete story click here.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Top10 Reasons To Consider Monterrey It Solutions Alternative - Nearshore
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Monday, February 8, 2010
Creating Reports with SQL Server Reporting Services
By Carina C.
Terms used in Reporting Services:
· Data Source
· Data Set: query related to a data source
· Data Region: object that displays data
Types of Data Regions:
· Table: Tabular report
· Matrix
· List: free form enlisted data
· Graphics
Creating Reports in Reporting Services
To read the complete post click here.
Terms used in Reporting Services:
· Data Source
· Data Set: query related to a data source
· Data Region: object that displays data
Types of Data Regions:
· Table: Tabular report
· Matrix
· List: free form enlisted data
· Graphics
Creating Reports in Reporting Services
To read the complete post click here.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Mexico: The only country in America that rated "very good" in Gartner's 30 Leading Locations for Offshore Services
Gartner has selected the top 30 countries for offshore services and rated each one according to 10 criteria.
Source: Mexico-IT.Net
Article: http://bit.ly/8sYNHF
Regional Summaries - Americas
Although only seven countries from the Americas appeared in the final list of 30, these countries are becoming (and, in some cases, already are) an attractive proposition for the largest buying market for offshore services — the U.S. Although only Canada was rated "excellent" for language (with fluent English and French), Latin American countries are able to leverage their Spanish-language skills increasingly in the U.S.; an increasing number of U.S. enterprises now require Spanish language from their providers for communication with parts of their workforce that speak Spanish as a first language.
Generally, a lack of government support to offshore initiatives has restricted development by countries in the Americas, with only Mexico rated "very good," although Brazil, Canada and Panama merited a "good" rating. Canada and Mexico also scored very well in the labor pool category; both of them placed higher than Brazil. The region performed creditably in terms of infrastructure, with Argentina and Panama being the only countries to rate lower than "good"; predictably, Canada was rated "excellent." In the educational system category, both Brazil and Costa Rica were only rated fair while Panama was rated "poor"; once more, Canada led the ratings.
The key evaluation criterion of cost was where Canada fared the worst ("fair") compared with "good" or "very good" ratings for all other countries in the region. However, Canada again led the rating for political and economic environment, cultural compatibility, global and legal maturity, and data and intellectual-property security and privacy. Argentina was rated less favorably than the rest for its political and economic environment. Brazil and Mexico were considered "very good" for cultural compatibility, and the Latin American countries all managed a solid "good" rating for global and legal maturity. As observed in other regions, data and intellectual-property security and privacy remains "work in progress" for many developing countries. Although Mexico is considered "very good," the other Latin American nations are only rated "fair" in our reports.
Table 1 provides a summary of Gartner's rating of Mexico, based on their 10 criteria.
Table 1. Mexico: Outsourcing Rating
Criterion
Rating
Language
Good
Government support
Very good
Labor pool
Very good
Infrastructure
Good
Educational system
Good
Cost
Very good
Political and economic environment
Good
Cultural compatibility
Very good
Global and legal maturity
Good
Data and intellectual property security and privacy
Very good
Source: Gartner (November 2008)
10 December 2008
Ian Marriott
http://www.sieena.com
Source: Mexico-IT.Net
Article: http://bit.ly/8sYNHF
Regional Summaries - Americas
Although only seven countries from the Americas appeared in the final list of 30, these countries are becoming (and, in some cases, already are) an attractive proposition for the largest buying market for offshore services — the U.S. Although only Canada was rated "excellent" for language (with fluent English and French), Latin American countries are able to leverage their Spanish-language skills increasingly in the U.S.; an increasing number of U.S. enterprises now require Spanish language from their providers for communication with parts of their workforce that speak Spanish as a first language.
Generally, a lack of government support to offshore initiatives has restricted development by countries in the Americas, with only Mexico rated "very good," although Brazil, Canada and Panama merited a "good" rating. Canada and Mexico also scored very well in the labor pool category; both of them placed higher than Brazil. The region performed creditably in terms of infrastructure, with Argentina and Panama being the only countries to rate lower than "good"; predictably, Canada was rated "excellent." In the educational system category, both Brazil and Costa Rica were only rated fair while Panama was rated "poor"; once more, Canada led the ratings.
The key evaluation criterion of cost was where Canada fared the worst ("fair") compared with "good" or "very good" ratings for all other countries in the region. However, Canada again led the rating for political and economic environment, cultural compatibility, global and legal maturity, and data and intellectual-property security and privacy. Argentina was rated less favorably than the rest for its political and economic environment. Brazil and Mexico were considered "very good" for cultural compatibility, and the Latin American countries all managed a solid "good" rating for global and legal maturity. As observed in other regions, data and intellectual-property security and privacy remains "work in progress" for many developing countries. Although Mexico is considered "very good," the other Latin American nations are only rated "fair" in our reports.
Table 1 provides a summary of Gartner's rating of Mexico, based on their 10 criteria.
Table 1. Mexico: Outsourcing Rating
Criterion
Rating
Language
Good
Government support
Very good
Labor pool
Very good
Infrastructure
Good
Educational system
Good
Cost
Very good
Political and economic environment
Good
Cultural compatibility
Very good
Global and legal maturity
Good
Data and intellectual property security and privacy
Very good
Source: Gartner (November 2008)
10 December 2008
Ian Marriott
http://www.sieena.com
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