What do you do when you have an excellent idea that might be difficult for many to grok, are creative and driven? Well, if you’re anything like Chris Messina, you come up with a self interview detailing your concept.
Nothing beats taking matters in your own hands.
From “W3C Publishes HTML 5 Draft, Future of Web Content“:
22 January 2008 — W3C today published an early draft of HTML 5, a major revision of the markup language for the Web. The HTML Working Group is creating HTML 5 to be the open, royalty-free specification for rich Web content and Web applications. The group operates entirely in public with nearly five hundred participants, including representatives from W3C Members ACCESS, AOL, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, and Opera.
Via Slashdot.
From “Semantic Wave 2008 – Free Summary Report for RWW Readers“:
Project10X has just released a 400-page study of semantic technologies and their market impact, entitled Semantic Wave 2008: Industry Roadmap to Web 3.0 and Multibillion Dollar Market Opportunities. A free 27-page summary of Project10X’s Semantic Wave 2008 Report has been made available to ReadWriteWeb readers.
I just filled up the form to get my copy of the summary. It says I’ll get an email with a link within four business hours.
From “FBJS/Animation – Facebook Developers Wiki“:
FBJS exposes a powerful animation library which gives developers an easy way to improve their user interface with a line of two or code. All animations are CSS based, so a working knowledge of CSS will really help you out here. An open-source version of FBJS Animation that will work on pages outside of Facebook is available at: http://developers.facebook.com/animation/.
Via ReadWriteWeb and the Facebook Developer blog.
From “Read/WriteTalk: John Lilly – CEO, Mozilla“:
In the interview we review both the lessons he’s learned at Mozilla and his plans for the organization in the future. I also think many of the leaders at DataPortability.org will find his comments quite interesting.
Interesting. Very interesting!
And while I’m at it: See “New Video Explains the Basics of Data Portability“, if you’re unclear on the subject.
From Joe’s shout:
It’s 6PM on a Thursday night and I’m about ready to head over to the Open Web Awards presented by Mashables.com to celebrate Digg’s wins with a few of my fellow Diggers. The only downer is that we don’t have more Diggers to share the fruits of our labor with.
I went to San Francisco last June to meet with the Digg team, and I can certify that if you have the skills, already live in the area or are willing to move there, you MUST apply. It’s not just for show, this team really rocks!
Unfortunately (arguably), I can’t move to SF, family and all, so this one’s not for me.
As Stevey points out, Plank is looking for a creative and motivated LAMP developer to join the team. See below for the full cross-posted skinny, and pass the word if you know someone who might be interested.
Want to work in our growing Web agency with great people, great clients, and a great working environment? Of course you do!
Plank is actively looking to add to our Montreal-based team. Whether you’re completely self-taught or have multiple degrees in Computer Science, we’re only concerned that you have the skills needed to perform the job. We need someone who is interested in working on exciting Web projects, generally in the fields of entertainment, technology and social action.
Your tasks will include:
- Development of website back-ends and interesting Web applications;
- Building on and working with our existing code base.
Our Expectations
We’re looking for someone fun! But seriously, you should have the following:
- 2+ years of related experience;
- Strong background in PHP and MySQL;
- Experience in AJAX, DHTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, will be an asset;
- Knowledge of open-source CMS’s such as Drupal and WordPress will be an asset;
- Knowledge of open-source PHP frameworks such as CodeIgniter will be an asset;
- Willingness to work locally in our Montreal office.
We are a close-knit company that continues to grow, and we need your skills. We want you to be part of our team for a long time to come. We offer a competitive salary, normal business hours, a comprehensive health and dental plan, and a great work environment.
If you think you would like to be part of the Plank team, please email your CV and cover letter to warren@plankdesign.com. If you would like to learn more about us, please surf around http://www.plankdesign.com.
We hope you’ll join us.
Hours: Full-Time
This job is salaried.
You can also check out Warren’s video for a previously posted position if you’d like to get a feel for what Plank is all about.
Alain Désilets’ (National Research Council of Canada) presentation at the PHP Québec CodeFest2008 on the challenges of massive translation collaboration in the wiki environment, and proposal for a cross lingual wiki engine concept to tackle the problem.
The presentation was followed by an intensive brainstorming session on the said engine, which itself led to a coding session after.
The video/sound is unedited and the quality isn’t fantastic, but it’s getting the word out that counts, right? 🙂
See also: Heri’s report on Montreal Tech Watch.
From “Yet another Dialog Spoofing – Firefox Basic Authentication“:
Mozilla Firefox allows spoofing the information presented in the basic authentication dialog box. This can allow an attacker to conduct phishing attacks, by tricking the user to believe that the authentication dialog box is from a trusted website.
From “PHP 4.4.8 Released“:
This release wraps up all the outstanding patches for the PHP 4.4 series, and is therefore the last normal PHP 4.4 release. If necessary, releases to address security issues could be made until 2008-08-08.
So long old friend. You’ve served us well, but it’s time for you to die, die, die!.