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Mark Stachiew, writing for the Montreal Gazette, mentioned Catch the Best in his latest Networthy column. Thanks, Mark!

What are “spaghetti products”? This phrase came to me as I was trading emails with John Cook from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer while he was working his piece, Ready, startup, go! Services built in cyberspeed, in which my project Catch the Best got a mention. It’s a play on the method of checking to see if your pasta is ready by throwing it against the wall and seeing if it sticks. A “spaghetti product” would be one you build quickly and throw out there to see if it sticks—or, in other words, to see if people will you pay you for it.

What do you think? Is it catchy?

Do you have a resume? Do you like to send emails? Then do me a favor, and send your resume to me at one of the email addresses below. The applicant tracking and ranking system I’m building has support for receiving and parsing emails with attached resumes, and I need some testing content as I work on the resume parsing and search. If you send your resume to my resume catcher, you’ll also be helping me write my next blog post on searching data in your Rails application using Sphinx.

I have three “open positions” to which you can “apply”. I’m looking for resumes from web developers, web designers, and system administrators, so I can get a variety of source data for my tests. Here are the email addresses for the positions:

• Web Developer
• Web Designer
• System Administrator

Thanks for your help!