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Wanted: Modern Professional XHTML+CSS+script Web Developer
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- 8/23 11:23 AM
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Technorati is looking for a modern professional XHTML+CSS+script web developer who has some experience working with authoring valid semantic XHTML in and across templates (e.g. PHP templates).
This is a fulltime position, onsite, at Technorati in San Francisco. You will be working on a live website that is updated several times a week, sometimes several times a day.
The Web Developer is responsible for taking design input from a variety of sources (including internal design mockups, product manager requests, external requirements, and guidance from the Chief Technologist - yours truly), and producing valid semantic XHTML 1.0 Strict, valid cross-browser compatible CSS, unobtrusive Javascript that degrades well for non-Javascript clients.
We are a startup, and thus there are plenty of opportunities to do lots of different things and learn new skills. Speaking of which...
We're passionate about quality code and we're looking for someone who is passionate about their craft as well, i.e. those who are continuously learning and updating their skills. Yes this means you have not only heard of AJAX, but have at least tinkered with it on your own site, even if with something like the quick and easy to use AHAH subset of AJAX.
We are pushing the limits of how fast the live web can be indexed and shown.
See the job description on the Technorati jobs page for more details on responsibilities, requirements, and plusses. A few plusses I want to call out in particular, experience with:
- Authoring, publishing, and maintaining microformats.
- Authoring feeds and feed templates, e.g. in RSS and Atom formats.
- Editing and contributing to public wiki pages (e.g. Wikipedia, the microformats wiki, etc.)
- Maintaining and writing object-oriented PHP code that talks to web services.
- Knowing offhand what "Appendix C." refers to.
In addition to sending your text (ASCII or UTF8) or (X)HTML version (URL is fine) of your resume to careers@technorati.com, please feel free to CC me at tantek at technorati. Principals only.
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iBook G4 dying on boot or soon after in less than 4 months
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- 8/11 11:07 AM
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My new iBook G4 is now dying of kernel panics upon turning it on or while booting or shortly after booting at the login screen or shortly after logging in. Etc. All the signs of some flakey hardware problem.
It's been less than four months folks.
And people ask me why I carry two laptops when traveling.
Apple, can you make a truly portable computer that people can expect to reliably take with them everywhere nearly everyday and have it last say at least 12 months like the warranty says? Can anyone?
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Busy, distracted, and soon vacation
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- 8/10 7:56 AM
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It's been a very busy past few weeks and I'm even further behind in blogging about things since the 8 steps to serving better (X)HTML. Though usual things have been keeping me busy, I have to blame a friend of mine for getting me to check out a very different social networking site cofounded by my colleague Ben Brown, which has certainly consumed a lot of time, both online and off. Suffice it to say I'm still figuring it out. It began with Promsumating which was full of turning points and firsts, but best of all, some amazing people. More details later, I promise. Or you can search for them yourself if you're too curious to wait.
For now, if you think of yourself as "different", "geeky", "not_average", or perhaps "clever", check out Consumating.com and start tagging. I'm pretty easy to find.
In other news it's been over a month since a particularly painful transition, and I've been postponing dealing with a lot of it. I'll be taking a few days off, visiting my family, some distant friends, and doing some long overdue introspection. Not sure if I'll catchup with the blogging or not. Perhaps if the introspections are interesting or more generally applicable I'll share what surfaces.
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Four year blogiversary
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- 8/8 11:59 PM
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Four years ago today, I started this blog with a very simple entry. Since then, it seems none of the W3C working drafts that I mentioned have made it to Recommendation status which is a bit unexpected to say the least. At a minimum I had expected CSS 2.1 to be further along, though perhaps we all underestimated how many details there were to fix, and recently no thanks to me either as I've been too busy with microformats to put a proper amount of time into my CSS working group invited expert duties.
When I moved my site over a few months ago to a new hosting provider (longish story), I specifically left out local images/photos and thus it looks like my old blog entries have some broken image references. I'll fix those by restoring at least just the images that are referenced, and then repost and properly reminisce.
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