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I wrote an article for my employer Rural Sourcing Inc, you can read it here http://www.ruralsourcing.com/blog/post/2012/05/09/Ten-Thousand.aspx

Text-Fu Still Costs You Time

Even if you have great text editing skills it still cost you time. That is time you didn't spend coding, you spent it CRTL-V, CRTL-C, Alt-Mouse "Column Mode", CTRL-R, ... whatever.

Enter DataPivot.

 DataPivot only does one thing. It takes data and format it for use in a SQL WHERE clause.

Currently there is some formatting options of the SQL such as "Indent Lines", "Wrap after element X", and "Quote Elements" to aid in keeping your code clean.

You can download DataPivot at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14129654/DataPivot.zip.
You can download DataPivot's source at https://github.com/benjaminkwilliams/csharp-toys.

New Methods

If you want to ask me a question check out my page on Askolo http://askolo.com/williamsbk
I also have a new repo up on GitHub which will contain some simple tools which make my life easier when dealing with data or programming, check it out at https://github.com/benjaminkwilliams/csharp-toys
Last, I have an About.Me which links to most if not all of the services I use, the link is http://about.me/benjamink.williams

How to Reject The Wrong People, Quickly

Noah Kagan (@noahkagan, #3 Mint, #30 Facebook, Founder AppSumo) shows you how reject 90% of the people that apply for a job without ever talking to them in AppSumo Hiring Secrets.

The video is only 25 minutes but worth it. Noah walks through the process of hiring a personal assistant, going from over a thousand applications to only calling two people. This allows him to focus on running his business instead of reading resumes in Microsoft Word.

His system is based on the idea that a person that works hard on the job application and interview will also work hard on the job itself. Noah says that if I ask for a Skype number and you don't have one, just go create one, be proactive.

The AppSumo Hiring Secrets system is the employer's version of Ramit Sethi's Briefcase Technique.

If you get the video by next November 19th, 2011 it will only cost you $49. If you don't get it, it will cost you time reading resumes with bold buzzwords and talking to people who shouldn't be working for you.

Get the AppSumo Hiring Secrets by clicking here.

P.S. Check out the introduction video on YouTube below.

Wish List

This is my wish list in the O'Reilly Media contest; the only prize if $500 worth of O'Reilly Publishing books. You can read about it here.

The following titles are in ebook format and the latest edition.

• Beautiful Data
  
• Beautiful Visualization
  
• Beautiful Code
  
• Beautiful Security
  
• Beautiful Teams
  
• Beautiful Testing
  
• 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
  
• 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
  
• The Art of Application Performance Testing
  
• The Art of Concurrency
  
• The Art of Capacity Planning
  
• Hadoop: The Definitive Guide
  
• Refactoring SQL Applications
  
• Applied Software Project Management