The ideal individual, will have a degree in computer science. He or She should have extensive experience using Ruby on Rails, with an understanding of the inner workings of Javascript, HTML, and CSS. Individuals should be able to transform PSD files into real markup. Candidates should be familiar with MySQL, Monit, and be proficient in C/C++. You should be comfortable applying patches and reading diffs. The unix shell environment should feel like home. Ideal, canidates will have worked on open source projects such as Mozilla, Varnish, Nginx, MySQL, WebKit, Gtk+, etc…
Anerian, is a new and profitable company - the opportunity is great. Candidates should have experience getting requirements from clients and be well spoken. We’re looking for self motivated individuals. The office is located in Washington, D.C. If you are interested please contact me at todd dot fisher at anerian dot com
Software Anerian, hiring
Fixing the “Unsupported Browser. Continue at your own risk” Error from Google Calendar Javascript API, when using Safari. First of all… why are they using alert with a service? And worse why are they using an alert in a method with no error handler? Anyways, Javascript is a nice language so we can silence google using a little script like the one below:
var falert = window.alert;
window.alert = function() { /* silence google */ };
var calService = new google.gdata.calendar.CalendarService("wpng-calendar-plugin-1");
window.alert = falert;
Software alert, google calendar, Javascript, wordpress
Tonight we opened up Dr. Val’s new blog and website getbetterhealth.com. She has been a very influential medical blogger over the last few years and now that she is out on her own, I’m really glad to be able to work with her. Check her out and please let us know what you think.
Software Medical News
We just finished up our first virtual conference website. It’s a kind of mix of event signup and confernce registration as well as related content. The content is provided by the company hosting the conference, SAE. I think I most enjoyed puting together the Dynamic Lead with the rotating images on the landing page. I used Prototype UI’s carousel widget.
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Software Anerian, blueprint, Consulting, Javascript, Prototype UI, Ruby, SAE
It’s official Google’s new browser is due out this tuesday, sept 2nd. Thankfully, it’s built on webkit’s rendering engine and apparently includes a new super fast Javascript engine developed by a team in Denmark and the bay area named V8. The browser, is very unique in that it runs each tab and window within it’s own process protecting all the tab’s and windows from closing because of one bad website. Here’s a screen shot:
Here’s where the news first broke: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-01-n47.html
Here’s the comic book document explaining the details.
Software browser, google
Git has really made it much easier to share code. ~23 days after posting curb to github, it now has a fork that’s added direct methods for making a PUT and DELETE request.
Software Curb, Git, Ruby
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