Web developer wanted
If you’ve got web skills (e.g. one or more of HTML, CSS, ASP, JSP, J2EE, .Net, Javascript, XML etc), database skills (especially SQL Server), some coding ability (C++ would be ideal, VB and VBA is good) and are looking for a permanent user-facing technical role in Leeds, drop me a line. The ideal person would be technical, but not so technical that they scare the end-users. Bouncy and imaginative is a definite plus.
Filed under General | Comments (4)Wikis and RSS in business
Two pieces from Information Week worth a look:
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How To Learn From Your Mistakes
From Scott Burkun, he of “The Art Of Project Management“:
How To Learn From Your Mistakes
Filed under Project Management | Comments OffYou can only learn from a mistake after you admit you’ve made it. As soon as you start blaming other people (or the universe itself) you distance yourself from any possible lesson. But if you courageously stand up and honestly say “This is my mistake and I am responsible†the possibilities for learning will move towards you.
A technical overview of Atom
Here’s a technical overview of the Atom 1.0 syndication format, courtesy of IBM:
Filed under Technical stuff | Comments Offhis article discusses Atom’s technical strengths relative to other syndication formats, and offers several compelling use case examples that illustrate those strengths.
Flickr Angel
Flickr is one of the cleverest uses of tagging that I’ve seen - particularly now there’s a whole new “interesting†category, which aggregates a whole series of parameters such as number of views, number of comments and so on to identify the most “interesting†shots that have been uploaded.
And there’s a lot of other suitably whizzy functionality as well, blog posting direct from your photo album being one of them.
This is the statue on top of one of the war memorials in the centre of Leeds, after a bit of Photoshopping to play around with the colours and contrast…