Long-running games face a difficult challenge: they need to stay familiar enough to retain loyal players while introducing enough change to prevent the experience from becoming repetitive. Developers use a combination of new content, live events, balance updates, community feedback, and technical improvements to keep established games active for years. …
I’ve wanted to speak at a conference since the first An Event Apart (awesome web conference from A List Apart people) I attended about a decade ago. With that goal in mind, I joined Toastmasters last December to build my confidence. I’m very pleased to announce that I’m conducting a …
Even if I don’t get accepted to speak, I’m so glad to finally overcome this hurdle. I love speaking off the cuff to even very large groups of people, but get a little nervous when it’s a prepared talk. That’s why I joined Toastmasters in December, and that’s why I …
Before my son arrived on June 30th, I was a little concerned that my maternal instincts would compete with my professional instincts, a constant battle between “work” and “life”, if you will. Fortunately, this isn’t at all what’s happened. I feel like I now bring to my work a sense …
Jobvite is a helpful tool that my company uses to allow candidates to apply and allows hiring managers to screen and evaluate them. However, they have the really annoying behavior of logging users out after two hours — they’re not a bank, and I have a password on my screensaver. …
I gave a brief talk at Zoosk’s Women’s Javascript Study Group tonight on how to apply for jobs at startups. I’ve hired 8 people in the last 15 months, and have reviewed countless resumes and interviewed dozens of candidates. I’m not an expert, but I wanted to share my tips …
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A packet filtering firewall is a management program that can block network traffic IP protocol an IP address and a port number for an IP network. You can use this software on a firewall as a network filtering system. You can use any standard firewall and no firewall configuration should …
The Zoosk UX Team now has it’s very own blog! In our first post, we discuss our design principles. Good designs, to us, are: Clear and familiar When things are easy and intuitive, people are comfortable and free to enjoy themselves. Clear and consistent experiences help Zoosk’s members become experts …
My last post (from a loooong time ago) was about being daunted by speaking on stage. Well… I’m taking a stand-up comedy class now. I can’t say I’ve magically become funnier, but I have made some progress towards being ready to speak in front of an audience. I recommend a …