Very seldom do we see this kind of lists in job postings. This here is an ad for a job in Portland, Oregon. (“PERL Application Developer”) We cut to the chase, to the last part of the posting, where special extra attributes of the applicant are listed: > Would like candidates with lisp, scheme, ml, …
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An IT conversation with Meg Hourihan
Via misbehaving.net I got a link to the first interview with a woman at IT Conversations, the place for podcast interviews with people in IT.
The Mother of all Demos
At day one of [Reboot](http://reboot.dk) I saw a part of the movie The Mother of all Demos, which was a Doug Engelbart demo of a funky system. Just take a look at the organ-style keypad to the left of the keyboard in the linked picture above. When a chord was struck on that *code organ*, …
After Reboot
OK, I came home after the reboot conference, which was an exhausting if uplifting experience. All I can think of to blog about is: * wearing more unisex clothes, like the sarong * making the “Hi Mom” guide to getting away from the Hinternet, and start using the Net more And I used flickr, see …
Programming language of the minute: Io
Read an article about the language [everyone is]/[someone might be] raving about: Io.
My buddy does Web Forms 2.0
It turns out that the inimitable Olav Junker Kjæer is now implementing Web Forms 2.0 together with three other heavy-weights of IE JavaScript manipulations. > We’ll be building things like the new date/time input controls, the datalist element, a range control (slider), well, all of it in fact. This is a very cool and welcome …
Design book hints found in unusual places
Lars Pind is an entrepreneur in the Copenhagen Internet business climate. A force to reckon with, he founded the company Collaboraid, which won the Startup of the Year award at the conference reboot 6 in 2003. Their website’s jobs section has interesting literature tips: > These books are considered required reading, because they > explain …
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Name that!
Mike Clark’s Weblog tells about an article he wrote about creating good names for things in your code. Mike Clark is one of the Pragmatic Programmers. Read more here: **Tame the Name**
Victims of the trade
A young developer. A deal that seemed shaky. A shady business guy. The Truth Behind OSI Hosting Having to go abroad to be slammed like this, it’s plain horrible. I feel with the guy.
SFTP, not FTP
The Windows GUI for secure FTP is WinSCP. When I’ve tested this, I’ll be a happier man. TextDrive is requiring its users to use SFTP for file transfer. Break-ins are a bad thing, and avoiding shouting out your passwords on all logins is a good thing. SFTP is the solution to that. OK, enough of …