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05. August 2019

My personal case for making a change now, before it happens to me.

The general rule of thumb on how often it is recommended to change jobs used to be every five years not too long ago. Nowadays it is closer to the one to three years range, as I just learned after skimming a few sites offering general career advice. I have been working at my employer Avaya for almost 12 years, and from this 12 years, the last 9 years - although, I have grown responsibility-wise - were spent in essentially the same position. Of course, this, in itself isn't the reason, or justification for moving on to the next stage of my career by leaving Avaya. In this post, I summarize my thoughts and feelings about making this decision for myself.

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27. May 2014

Python-Markdown - Generating HTML documents from Markdown text in Python.

This post is the essence of my first talk presented at the '14 April edition of the budapest.py meetup series. The original intention was to participate in the flash talk competition, however it was extended a little later. Hence, it is more a bitesize appetizer of Markdown and its Python implementation, than a thorough introduction. I briefly explain what Markdown is and is not, what it can be used for. Then, you can read about how the Python implementation is similar and how it differs from the original conversion tool written in Perl. Finally, in a real project, extending and fine tuning how the HTML document is generated is inevitable. We will see into a simple explanation on how the conversion process can be altered to accommodate your special needs.

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