AJAX Developer Positions Open - Start Now 
February 23rd, 2006
We need more cowbell…uhh…I mean more good AJAX software developers to joing our kick ass and growing team. From Dave:
Once again, we are hiring some more AJAX developers. Anyone out there with mad AJAX skills or the work ethic to rapidly get up to speed on some exciting AJAX product development?
If so please email us!
Also this is a rough cut our support job description, but we’re busy as heck, so fire in the CVs!
- Interacting with customers who seek solutions to their development
problems. This requires active participation in forums and mailing lists,
answering email queries, and fielding phone calls. - Developing samples and documentation for use by fellow developers.
Required Skills
- Everything
AJAX :
DHTML, Javascript, XML, the DOM, � - Experience with .NET
- Experience with Java/J2EE
- Experience troubleshooting common problems associated with character encodings,
databases (SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle), internationalization, server platforms
(Apache, Tomcat, IIS, WebSphere), and operating systems (Windows, Linux,
Solaris) - Experience with the major server page technologies: JSP, PHP, ASP
- Excellent
written and oral communication skills
This is a great position a co-op or new grad looking to get in the AJAX / Web2.0 game. Being obsessed with usability and high quality is definitely going to help. Do you something cool like blog about this position and why you may want it, and show off some cool web app you’ve built and that’ll make our heads spin and come running to you!
We’re also hiring a marketing/biz dev person…but that’s a whole other bag of tricks. Contact me if you’re interested.
More about working on the Nitobi team.
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UN / CEFACT coming to Vancouver
February 22nd, 2006
I’m very proud that me and my team have been able to help in the efforts largely orchestrated by my good friend Duane Nickull to bring the “United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitations and Electronic Business” to Vancouver, BC this March.
“UN/CEFACT will have a Forum meeting March 13 to March 17 2006. You may register here to attend the meeting, however all delegates MUST be vetted by their country’s Head of Delegation (HoD). If you wish to attend and need to find your HoD, please email [email protected]. Canadians wishing to attend may submit their requests to Duane Nickull ([email protected] ) on or before March 1, 2006.There is also a special meeting for signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN/ECE) and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems (OASIS).”
Big thanks to Wendy Yuen and Pamela Chadwick of eBusiness Applications for their hardwork and dedication to getting the website up running!
If you’re a “cannuck” and would like to participate please contact Duane.
All the details of the event can be found here: http://www.ebusiness-apps.com/uncefact/
Le Big Mac du AJAX
February 19th, 2006
I’m encouraged by the current conversations about different flavors and and richness of AJAX user interfaces. Thanks to Harry Fuecks for starting and Michael Mahemoff for following up.
Basically they’ve been put into two categories (one could break it down further but this is a great start) AJAX lite (also HTML++ or AJAX website) and AJAX Deluxe (Client/SOA or AJAX Application).
I think this is particularly important to look when you’re designing a UI and planning an AJAX project. How far will yo go, how far can you go and how far do you “need” to go?
When we build our AJAX UI components we try to push as far as we can. We know you don’t always need to, but in the case you want to build a web app as interactive and fast as the one on your desktop we’re trying to help!
I’ve put together a quick (~6min) AJAX Flash demo screencast (lower bandwidth version ~25mb) to illustrate what I’m talking about.
Take a look it’s my first screencast…so a little rough around the edges. It was fun to put together so expect to see a lot more these on my blog. Please send me your feedback and ideas so I can make them better!!
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Dave on Cross Domain AJAX via XML
February 15th, 2006
He has a very intesting article about doing AJAX cross domain using XML. Dave just got ajaxianed;-)
AJAX for non-geeks.
February 14th, 2006
Originally uploaded by Mutually Inclusive.
Do I know what I’m talking about? Maybe. But I thought this photo was kind of funny. I got some great feedback from this AJAX session and people told me “they finally understood what AJAX was and why they might need it”. Great!
Here’s my AJAX for Beginners presentation slides.
Dave gave a great in depth talk on AJAX for geeks which was very technical (read code samples and aspect oriented programming).
brrreeeport
February 13th, 2006
brrreeeport . that’s all mr scoble.
(UPDATE: Google now has 98 listings with brrreeeport)
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Nancy White and Video Blogging
February 11th, 2006
Nancy White’s Talk at Northern Voice is great. Very interesting. And she gave us chocolate:)
Some neat points:
“Lurkers are the most powerful force in the world” Learn to speak new languages, literrally! She speaks portugese. Cut the number of slides in half. And you can be the candle and/or the mirror, we need need both.
Coolest tech thing is Kevin Marks is streaming video live from the event. I want to find out more about this and start doing it! I remember how hard it was 10yrs ago to get video even on to a PC…I spent hours fighting with stupid video cards and scouring the world for a fire wire cable and card!!! And now keving is doing it with a laptop, a wifi connection, a small usb digi cam and uploading to mac.com. (Apparently his kids do this too! RAD) How far we’ve come:)
I am at Moose Camp today
February 10th, 2006
I am at Moose Camp today
Originally uploaded by foolswisdom.
Yes I am. MooseCamp is day one of Northern Voice 2006. Good times so far. Dave and I both gave talks about AJAX this morning, and I’m going to talk to the NetSquared folks about AJAX during their speedgeek.
Drupal’s Plan for the Future is Usability
February 9th, 2006
Got to the OS CMS Summit today just in time for the Drupal Roadmap session by Dries Buytaert. I think it was a great talk and Dries knows his stuff and really cares about the users of Drupal! Dries figures that Drupal is in the maturity phase of the curve and drupal 4.7 is now focused on user satisfaction. And he commits to having 4.7 delivered in X months;-) He says “Form Follows Function”, Guy will like that.
In one chart he mentions that Civicspace distribution has more functionality that the standard Drupal. Interesting, gotta check that out.
As with any OS project many developers are scratching their own itch. Dries unfortunately can’t gurantee a road map. Drupal may be passed the critical functionality threshold and should now be focussing on usability to remain competitive, good point! I totally agree.
What has to be done to Drupal in the short term?
1. Improve user satisfaction
2. Add Features by:
-critical functions added to the core
-specialization goes into distributions
The main new features in 4.7 are:
- Usability!
- Contact form
- Free tagging
- Form handling
- Loose caching
Finally, themes are very important, as it’s the first impression, the current blue marine theme isn’t doing anyone any favors:) I think Dries really gets it on the market side and on keeping developers motivated! I think if he can convince enough people to focus on user experience Drupal is really going to kick ass in the next couple years!
(I may have misinterpreted a whole bunch of stuff from the talk, please correct me if I have)
Joel’s blogging about AJAX!
February 9th, 2006
Check out his firts post here. Joel Gerard is one of our key developers on our components team and he’s wicked smart.
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