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'You've got to find what you love,' - Steve Jobs

Source: Stanford Report, June 14, 2005 This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wif...

Discovering jQuery

$() is the accessor for jquery via which DOM elements can be accessed. and within the round bracket an text has to be entered. That text is called selector. This text can be anything and if the text is not supplied then this will apply for the whole document just adding content

Successful Tech Career

How does one build a successful technical career? SUBROTO BAGCHI, the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, MindTree Consulting gives you the nine key factors. The other day, I met a bright young engineer in MindTree and asked him what his ambition was. He was very clear. "I want to be an architect". My next question to him was, what does he read? He looked surprised and then replied that he does not read much outside what appears on a computer screen. My next question to him was whom all does he admire in MindTree among the three best architects? He named the predictable three. Then I told him what the fundamental gap was between him and the best three. It was about the ability to make intelligent conversation about any subject under the sun - a capability borne out of serious reading habits. The next thing I asked him to do was to poll these three on what were the six books they had read last. The result was amazing. The three named eighteen books in all - of which a...

Speed up your Drupal Installation

You may find that your web site visitors are getting slow response from your Drupal Web Site. if you want good solutions then can visit the link below Essential steps to speed up a Drupal web site http://nadeausoftware.com/articles/2007/03/essential_steps_speed_drupal_web_site