Monday, September 14, 2009 –
iMarc is looking for a PHP developer with
3+ years of work experience building websites and online applications. iMarc
is a skilled team of web designers, programmers, and business experts.
We’re located in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
Candidates for this position should understand object-oriented programming
concepts as well as relational databases and SQL.
In addition to back-end PHP and SQL…
Monday, September 14, 2009 –
iMarc is looking for a front-end web developer
to help us build websites and online applications. iMarc is a skilled team
of web designers, programmers, and business experts. We’re located in
Newburyport, Massachusetts.
The ideal candidate is passionate about semantic markup, user experience,
CSS, and JavaScript. We’re looking for someone who’s also interested in
learning PHP, SQL, and back-end…
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 –
Back in May, after a frustrating issue with one of our hosting providers, I mentioned the item on Twitter.
Literally five minutes later, the provider @replied to me. This felt great. Almost instantaneous support with real person. A frustrating situation was turned into something positive. Rob, had a similar experience with Alaska Air on Twitter.
Last week, I had a another issue with the same hosting provider. Instead of airing dirty laundry on Twitter, I…
Monday, August 24, 2009 –
A little pre-announcement: iMarc will be hosting a session at the NEMA 2009 Conference this November.
Nils Menten and Karin Klapak will be leading and facilitating discussion in the Best Online Practices in the Museum Webspace session. Nils and Karin will be joined by NEMA members Jim Chase, Vice President of Seacoast Science Center, and Pieter Roos, Executive Director of the Newport Restoration Foundation, to discuss and…
Wednesday, July 29, 2009 –
If website renders just fine in all the major browsers, that's good enough, right?
Seriously, what is the business benefit to a site that happens to comply with web standards? Sure, us developers love it, but why does anyone else?
Answer: It's like building to the building code. You don't have to do it, and your house will probably stand just fine. But building to code helps ensure that your roof can stand the load of a heavy snowfall.... that the…
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 –
Upon seeing something extraordinary, how long does it take for you to mentally summarize the moment in 140 characters or less?
It's unfortunate, but kids today will happily leave a great moment in order to tell everyone on Twitter or Facebook how great the moment was.
Record producer and disc jokey, DJ Clark Kent, sums it up nicely…
An interviewer asks about the experience of growing up in the 1980's music scene.
DJ Clark…
Friday, July 10, 2009 –
A bit of historic perspective this morning...
John Gruber has posted a thoughtful discussion of Google's new Chrome OS to his Daring Fireball blog, in which he cited the VT-100 as an example of a popular client-server system. Unfortunately, his usually accurate and insightful commentary is incorrect in that detail today.
A client-server system is one in which a client, which has a degree of intelligence and computational ability of its own, requests…
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 –
The following is a simple introduction to various ways of joining database tables.
The example code should work identically in MySQL and PostgreSQL unless otherwise noted.
Set Up
First let's lay foundation for the data we'll be joining. We'll use a simple company <> people pattern.
We have a table of three companies.
SELECT * FROM companies;
company_id | company
------------+---------…
Monday, July 6, 2009 –
Thirteen months ago, I proposed that the <i> (italics) tag is not evil.
This year, XHTML 2.0 is dead (or maybe a zombie, at best), and HTML5 is ascendent.
And so I take great pleasure in noting that the <i> tag is back:
The i element now represents a span of text in an alternate voice or mood, or otherwise offset from the normal prose, such as a taxonomic designation, a technical term, an idiomatic phrase from another language, a thought, a…
Thursday, July 2, 2009 –
The W3C is an international group that develops web standards. Some people accuse the group of being slow and inefficient. Since the W3C's director is the guy who invented the World Wide Web, it's hard to speak poorly of the organization... but I will.
Today's announcement is a perfect example of the how the W3C got their reputation of being slow to define standards.
The W3C announced today that the XHTML2 group will stop working at…
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