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Do you have a website?: http://www.timhardy.org

Experience in tech?: Senpai (mentor), Kohai (student)

Welcome! I'm glad you can join me.

Timothy Hardy

Founder and CEO, ThePaperCeiling.com

I've been busy with my "real" job as the CEO of a consulting company. More updates coming soon! If you want to know what I've been up to, you should follow me on Twitter:

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First and most importantly, thank you to all the members that have given support and helped to develop ThePaperCeiling.com. This is a work in progress and I know there will be many updates and changes along the way.

My favorite recent discovery Lynda.com

Lynda.com is an on line training site with over 600 classes that can be taken in multiple technical, programming and creative on line classes starting at $25 per month. If you know… Continue

Posted on April 8, 2010 at 7:43am

Social media meets opens source education

Standford has finished posting their series for a free online course for iPhone Application Programing!

Thanks to Twitter @styggiti for the find.

The course can be found here:

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.php

If you have the skillz to get into iPhone or Android (Google Phone) development, the sky is the limit for… Continue

Posted on December 18, 2008 at 1:49pm

Back to work!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Today on Slashdot, there is a post that has over 700 replies so far that sums up ThePaperCeiling.com:

Ask Slashdot: IT Job Without a Degree?

Special thanks to TPC member Erich Newell for giving me a heads up! Looks like it struck a nerve and it asks the same thing we ask here TPC. Here was my response (edited to remove user I replied to):

I have been… Continue

Posted on December 1, 2008 at 3:30pm

Free MIT Classes and IT Security Jobs

I went to the Phoenix IT Summit yesterday that was sponsored by Fusion Storm and was talking to someone that told me you can classes from MIT online for free! I was blown away. From the site:

"MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity."

It is amazing… Continue

Posted on October 17, 2008 at 12:30pm

The begining

Welcome to the paper ceiling.com (TPC)! TPC is my dream to have a place where people of like minds can get together and network to look for jobs that will accept experience over having a degree and pay $100K or more. I believe in the power of the mind over paper. There is no magic wand, and school won't do it either. Never confuse learning with education. Always be learning and growing.

-Tim

Posted on October 17, 2008 at 11:55am

Comment Wall (2 comments)

At 3:03pm on October 17, 2008, David said…: I like the layout. It works well. I can do some art work for the main site. Maybe 2-3 to give you something to pick from. How do we go about getting people to come to this site? And keep it low cost? Your idea is damn good man. It's just shocking me that your doing what I'm thinking. Thinking back it was you I saw the matrix with. NEO = ONE. -peace

At 11:27pm on November 8, 2008, Christopher Chang said…: Look a good start. Suggestion: If this is going to be a private networking site and everyone is going to be expected to share their knowledge, experience, advice, recommendations, etc., I think you should highly consider setting up some guidelines, expectations and requirements (like every member use their full names so we all know who we're dealing with).