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Javascript, Flash and Facebook-API developers wanted

MySites is growing its team. If you are interested as a freelancer or pemanent, remote or onsite, drop Ramine an email ramine at mysit.es

MySites is a finish company, but the team comes from all over Europe.

Looking forward to hear from you,

-A

Wikipedia saturated

oc-co.org/?p=124

Mysites postings

The original posting:

startupmeme.com/watch-out-mobile-me-and-mesh-mysites-has-it-all-getting-more/

On digg:

tinyurl.com/58gx7m

www.reddit.com/comments/6um7x/mysites_the_hottest_finnish_invention_since_sauna/

Adobe Flex developer wanted - remote or onsite

Either as free lancer or permanently employed we need a Flex guru or an advanced Flex developer that likes challenges.

We have several projects in New York and Munich.

A small international team in an agile setting is waiting for you developing applications that scale to millions of users.

As usual, we care about experience, communication skills and simply the desire to excel and not page-long CVs.

If interested, please email me at armin at personifi dot com. Please no Word docs, only .txt or pdf or put it all in a simple email.

Next time we ask for some GNU Flex developers .. :-)

MySites versus the Facebook and Google App Engine

mysitesdevelopment.blogspot.com/2008/07/mysites-services-v-facebook-and-google.html

new energy blog

good.myupdat.es/

Development Blog

Some of the developers start posting goodies here :-).

mysitesdevelopment.blogspot.com/

Mysites -- launched!

MySites is a single place for all your online needs. You can create and customize a website, save and share any media, decide who can view it, embed anywhere, and use any device.

Mysites is mostly rub (rack) and Javascript. Check it out

I will try to get an interview with the developers in the next few days to see what they learnt in the last two years of hard work.

Vimperator - gain back your time

Thanks to Brenden for passing me this link.

vimperator.mozdev.org/

First there was a Navigator, then there was an Explorer. Later it was time for a Konqueror. Now it’s time for an Imperator, the VIMperator :)

Vimperator is a free browser add-on for Firefox, which makes it look and behave like the Vim text editor. It has similar key bindings, and you could call it a modal web browser, as key bindings differ according to which mode you are in.

Now I need vim bindings for openoffice, so that I stop typing :w.

Six Degrees of Wikipedia

Ever heard of the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon? If you haven’t, it works like this: Every actor gets a Kevin Bacon number. Kevin Bacon has a Kevin Bacon number of 0, actors who were in a movie with Kevin Bacon get a Kevin Bacon number of 1, actors who were in a movie with someone who has a Kevin Bacon number 1 get a 2, and so on (Everybody always gets the smallest number possible, so if you were in a film with two people, one with a 4 and one with a 6, your Kevin Bacon number would be 5).

The same idea could apply to the articles Wikipedia. Instead of taking "in the same film" as the relation, you can take "is linked to by". We’ll call the "Kevin Bacon number" from one article to another the "distance" between them. It’s then possible to work out the "closeness" of an article in Wikipedia as its average distance to any other article. I wanted to find the centre of wikipedia, that is, the article that is closest to all other articles (has minimum closeness).

www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/wiki

Dual mode bus

What do you get when you cross a bus with a train? A dual-mode vehicle that has the versatility of a bus, the speed of light rail and fuel economy vastly better than either.

Good wired article!

blog.wired.com/cars/2008/05/half-bus-half-t.html

Thin -- a fast and simple ruby webserver

I have not yet used it in production, but heard good things.

code.macournoyer.com/thin/

The pulse of uncertainty

Very nice graph, well done!

www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/01/05/business/20080106_soapbox_graphic.html

Gold - towards the danger zone?

Tom updated his analysis gold.approximity.com/gold_analysis.html

Vido of matz speaking at Google on ruby 1.9, Feb 20, 2008

www.rubyinside.com/matz-at-google-video-771.html

Erlang Cookbook

The Erlang Cookbook is designed to be a good starting point for learning about the language, the OTP platform, and fault tolerant programming. This book was started as a way for me to document what I learned about the Erlang programming language, best practices gleaned from reading the newsgroups and mailing lists, and tips and tricks from the helpful developers and scientists using Erlang.

I modeled this book on the nearly-completed Scheme Cookbook that I was fortunate enough to have been part of developing.

This book (and the Scheme Cookbook itself) could not have been created without the excellent templating system Anton van Straaten developed for the Scheme Cookbook.

— BrentAFulgham - 20 Aug 2004

schemewiki.org/Erlang/TOC

Gold: updated technical analysis

Tom updated his analysis.

Sex sells ..

Surprise, surprise .. :-). Men buy the DSL connections :-).

Took this picture in Hamburg at Hansenet (alice, Telekom Italia).

The model is Vanessa Hessler and she is playing in the latest Asterix movie.

Arc released

Paul Graham released the first version of arc a new Lisp dialect.

arclanguage.org/

Gold, gold, gold ..

As most of you know at the moment we are very bullish on gold.

Tom, Gold-Tom has decided to put some of his graphs online that he updates very frequently. Check it out

Tom even thinks that a $1,000 gold price and a $25 silver price is not too unlikely in the next few months.