Well, I began my job as an SDET at Microsoft as a subcontractor. It’s been a few weeks already. One thing I’ve come to realize is that when you have testing on your resume, recruiters automatically try to “pigeonhole” you into a testing position regardless of what your objective says. It’s already hard enough to try to get an engineering position in the game dev field. Even though I have testing experience, I think it’s almost more valuable to take that testing experience off of my resume. The problem is the gap in time that it leaves.
I have been struggling with a decent solution for rss feeds. I mainly have found that google reader was a good solution, the only problem was that it lacked a simple filtering feature. I tried using yahoo pipes with it, which was an OK solution, but was a pain. I eventually found a decent solution, but it requires a couple of things. 1) firefox, 2) grease monkey, 3) Google Reader Filter, which can be found here. It allows the user to filter out feeds with certain key words, and also allows feeds to be highlighted based on keywords. So simple. I attempted to get it to work under opera, but also, the grease monkey script doesn’t work very well. It works completely under firefox though.
I have been round and round with different solutions such as feeddaemon, rssbandit, etc. etc. This appears to be the best so far from what I can gather.