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Why is it important to know how to interpret non-verbal Communication for recruiting?

By Brenda V.  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 som...

Top 10 reasons to consider Monterrey for your IT solutions needs

If you are thinking about obtaining a competitive advantage for your business while trying to maximize your resources, don’t forget to consider Monterrey, Mexico as your next IT solutions alternative. Here you will find the top 10 reasons in why considering Monterrey is the best option for you and your company. Monterrey is considered one of the most important commercial and technological centers of Latin America.   Industrial Leadership: Out of all the cities in Mexico, Monterrey is known as the industrial capital of the country; it’s one of the most accessible cities in the country with more than 200 flights making daily connections. The city with the largest industrial leadershi...

Make your website Social using Messenger Live Toolkit!

By Edith Colegio If you haven’t already, you should think about adding social capabilities to your website. This will help you attract new users, and keep them on your website for longer and get them to come back more often.  The use of existing toolkits like the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit can be very useful to achieve this. Using the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit You can use this toolkit to integrate presence, instant messaging, and contact information using the following interfaces Windows Live Messenger UI Controls       These controls are a set of UI building blocks. The UI Controls are easy to add to an existing XHTML page. They provide a professional UI ...

Why do people Blog?

By Cesar Olivas There can be as many answers for this question as people who blog, but the growth of the internet has revolutionized communications, the way we get information across, especially in places where the media is property of the government. In these kinds of places, where people cannot freely speak their mind, blogging can be extremely attractive, this is their way to express their thoughts. For the rest of us, the answer will differ. Some people would say (and have told me) that blogging is a waste of time, that I cannot possibly get anything from it, but I know that they are wrong. In this age, blogs are used to inform, to teach, to spread the word about news, technology, a...

SharePoint 2010: A quick overview with more developer friendliness.

By José Cortes   A little background: with SharePoint 2007 you had the option of installing the portal in WS2003 or WS2008, either in their 32bit or 64bit options, and you could choose between the core system WSS 3.0 or the full upgrade to MOSS 2007. In all of these cases you were able to use .NET framework 2.0 and 3.0, and with some patches you could even use the 3.5 version. Now with the new SharePoint 2010 (read as “SharePoint twenty ten”) we have a new name for WSS 3.0, and it is Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010. It is still the heart of the platform and provisions the basic services of SharePoint that allows you to deploy your custom templates and instantiate them in your list...

CSS3: New Cool Features

By Cesar Olivas CSS has been around for some time now, since 1996, and it completely changed the way people used to make websites, for good. First came CSS1, with some support for fonts, color text, backgrounds, spacing between words, alignment, margins, paddings and some other attributes; it looked really good for its time. Then same CSS level 2 in 1998, which introduced some powerful features like positioning, z-index, media types. Then came the revision we use right now, CSS level 2 revision 1(CSS2.1) which fixed some errors in CSS2 and removed some unsupported features. But the web is evolving, turning into a more interactive, user-centered design; the technologies were bound to ev...

Creative Thinking as a way to improve Software Development (and your business).

By Eduardo Chaccourt   For all of us working in software development industry, we are often seen as people with a very methodic, squared, always “inside the box” way of thinking. This is natural since most of us have had a very engineer-like formation in college. Subjects such as Binary math and circuit design, where everything has to be exact, this helped to achieve this way of thinking. I’m not stating that this is necessarily wrong or “bad”, but not 100% precise. My thoughts are that software engineering is also a pretty creative profession. Imagine this scenario that was pretty recurring back in the day: You need to develop some software to control an onboard car computer, one of...