Date: 03/20/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: technology

Online ticket seller hints at using Echomusic's marketing technology to enhance other InterActiveCorp properties.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6168764.html

Date: 03/21/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: html, technology, asp, web

I've been wondering about web-related technology certifications that might be worth my while. yes, I know experience is invaluable when it comes to enhancing a resume, but I also wouldn't mind having a solid certification in a web-related area. I'm not referring to web design degrees as I already have an associates degree (interactive multimedia) and I had been working towards a second web dev degree that may someday lead to a bachelors. so my questions on web certifications:

are there organizations/sites that are more highly regarded than others for what they have to offer?
what are some good ones?
what are some reputable/credible web certifications out there that you have, or know of?

I've only done a brief search so far, but I have noticed the HTML certification that w3schools has to offer:
http://www.w3schools.com/cert/cert_html.asp

any thoughts on that one?

thanks in advance for any input, advice, comments, etc..

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1235608.html

Date: 03/23/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: technology, microsoft

With Response Point Microsoft has put its lawyers at the disposal of supporting the technology Vonage and Digium pioneered. They are competitors in the market, but in a law court they will sit on the same side of the table.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/103873648/

Date: 03/27/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: technology, microsoft

Novell is becoming a one-way mirror. Microsoft technology flows through it into the open source world. But the technology itself remains closed to the open source world. Open source developers only see Novell.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/104699919/

Date: 04/12/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: technology

Blog search site plans to use technology behind news aggregator Personal Bee to add new "social publishing" features.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6175486.html

Date: 04/12/07 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: technology, linux

O'Reilly is doing a new certification/training system called the O'Reilly School of Technology at http://oreillyschool.com/courses/

They are offering a Linux section which might be interesting, with the cost around $400.00. Looks like you might be able to get real credits for them at some universities.

Thoughts?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/56020.html

Date: 04/17/07 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, programming, mysql, software, browser, css, html, xml, technology, database, sql, java, jsp, web, linux, microsoft, apache

Moderator, if this isn't allowed on this forum just let me know.

I get a lot of emails daily for various web dev and programming positions available. I found a good job, but I keep my resume up. Ya never know.

Just feel guilty constantly deleting them when I know someone may need them. Figured I'd at least post them for any coder friends that may be looking for something. I lj-cut it so it wouldn't be too obtrusive.

If these are just found to be crap, let me know and I'll stop passing them on. But some of them at least appear to have potential. They're all fresh over the past 24 hours.

To whoever is currently looking, hope these help! If it's ok, I'll send periodic digests of these if anyone finds them worthwhile.


Hello,


I came across your resume and would to speak with you in regards to 2 immediate Cold Fusion needs in the Radford, VA areas.

Here are the details.


We need people onsite! 40 hour work week schedules

Location/Address: Radford, VA (Southwestern VA)

Start Date: ASAP

Drop Dead Start Date: ASAP

Project End date: N/A

# Of resources need for role: 1

Position Title: ColdFusion Software Engineer

BE Level/ Job classification: Consultant

Required Skill Set (Yrs Exp):


SKILLS: ColdFusion software developer with experience leading the development of software modules.

EXPERIENCE:
Proven experience analyzing system requirements, guiding overall application development and individual module development. Direct involvement in application development, maintenance and operations of an application environment involving Microsoft SQL Server back-end with Macromedia ColdFusion middleware running on Microsoft IIS webservers.

Specific education and experience requirements include:
1. Minimum 4-year technical degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field from accredited institution
2. Minimum 1 year general programming experience and an additional 1 year experience in web-based application development
3. Minimum 1 year experience with design, development and maintenance of ColdFusion-based online software applications
4. Practical experience in MS SQL Server (v7 or higher) database design, operations, and maintenance involving extensive structured query language (SQL) usage and development of complex queries and procedures
5. Practical experience with MS SQL Server (v7 or higher) database administration
5. Must be a US Citizen
6. Prefer current active Department of Defense (or capable of attaining) Secret Clearance

Preferred Skill Set

Will also consider candidates with Java and JSP experience.



Job#2

Location/Address: Radford, VA (Southwestern VA)

Background of Project:

Start Date: ASAP

Drop Dead Start Date: ASAP

Project End date: N/A

# Of resources need for role: 1

Position Title: Web Page Designer

BE Level/ Job classification: Sr Systems Analyst

Required Skill Set (Yrs Exp):

The candidates we are seeking should be self starters, interested in seeking new ways to help this customer innovate and provide state of the art web design capabilities to DoD customers.

Technical & functional requirements:

- 1-2 years ColdFusion development experience using Version 6.0 or 7.0 (prefer 7.0)
- 1-2 years experience with Enterprise level database design including stored procedures and functions.
- working knowledge of the Fusebox design methodology, using version 3.0 or higher to develop robust web applications.
- proficient with use of Visual Mind software, version 7
- demonstrate ability to elicit requirement definitions from customers, then convert those specifications into realistic software development projects, and further develop a schedule in MS Project for task delegation and performance tracking.
- US Citizen

Preferred Skill Set

XHTML or similar browser based scripting development, web services development experience a plus.
- Cascading Style Sheet development using CSS v2.0 or later preferred.
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database design experience preferred.

Please forward me an updated word copy of your resume and give me a call.

Thanks!

Ray Santos | 1-800-627-8323 x9509 | rsantos@mastech.com Mastech | 1000 Commerce Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15275 | Ph:1.888.330.5497 x 9509

Fax: 412-291-3037


Mastech respects your privacy. We will not share your resume or contact details with any of our clients without your consent.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/561562.html

Date: 04/18/07 (Security)    Keywords: software, technology, security

But more security firms are designing software to uproot the stealth technology, says McAfee.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6177387.html

Date: 04/23/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: css, html, technology, web

Getting output from open source which is fully compliant with web standards like XHTML and CSS is a major challenge. Since the work of assuring such outputs is still hand-made, many projects are weak in this critical area. But shouldn't it be possible to identify the underlying code weaknesses using technology?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/111374992/

Date: 04/30/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: technology

A Norwegian company that supplies search technology to business users is looking to help newspaper publishers make more money from online advertising.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6180078.html

Date: 04/30/07 (IT Management)    Keywords: technology

A silicon.com jury of CIOs failed to reach a verdict over recent studiess that slammed CIOs for not taking the lead to implement new technology trends.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9589_22-6180267.html

Date: 05/01/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: rss, technology

Media company buys small firm whose technology converts RSS feeds to e-mail; aim is to use it to analyze customer preferences.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6180470.html

Date: 05/15/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: technology

Dave Barry of AlterPoint has it right. Information Technology has to get ahead of the change curve, and IBM's strategy for this is sound.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/116871659/

Date: 05/15/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: technology, web

Is it just me or does McDonalds have a really awful web layout? http://www.McDonalds.com

Here is a note I wrote to McDonalds about it:
Your website is really awful. I've been looking around the net for all the major brands I can think of (I'm a designer/developer and am always looking to see what other designers come up with) and I expected a corporation as big as McDonalds to have a better page than this. I realize not many of your customers have any need for McWeb interaction, but as a major (perhaps one of THE major) corporations in the world, you should do some justice to your product and have a nice webpage. You might want to take a look at what http://www.gotmilk.com/ has done with the get the glass campaign http://www.gettheglass.com/ for example. I would think that particularly with all the contests you have going that you could come up with something better than this. I would suggest aiming at more content and a more interactive web 2.0 layout. The future is now, after all, and if McDonalds has been able to adapt and survive, even grow as a corportation for the past 50 years, you'd think you would be keeping up with the times and technology of 2007.

Whereas, oddly enough Burger King seems to hire pretty good designers: www.bk.com

On a different note, if anyone knows of some really excellent corporate pages (especially retail) I'd appreciate you pointing me in the right direction. Thanks in advance!

-M

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1256379.html

Date: 05/15/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: technology

Dave Barry of AlterPoint has it right. Information Technology has to get ahead of the change curve, and IBM's strategy for this is sound.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1049

Date: 05/17/07 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: technology, database, linux

My company is looking for an audit tool which will help us track down hardware, e.g. when someone says "do we have a spare dual core PC kicking around?" we could search a database (updated daily?) of specs including when those machines were last used.

It's easy enough (in theory) to keep track of PC specs and where they were deployed but the hard part is finding out if they're actually being used - not that any of us hoard hardware :)

We have ~200 Windows machines (mostly XP or 2003 Server, but some NT4 and a few Vista installs recently) plus a few Linux (Red Hat and SUSE) servers in one site; we do maintain a couple of subnets, but the tool wouldn't have to span them (we could run it separately on each net if need be).

The tool doesn't have to be freeware but personally I'm a big fan of open source; it would, of course, have to be malware-free and be able to interrogate Windows machines (the Linux boxes would be a bonus but not essential). We're not going the extra step of trying to physically locate the hardware - that would require too much technology (i.e. money), and it won't hurt the techies to do a little legwork. :)

Any recommendations?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/56836.html

Date: 05/24/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: technology, microsoft

Microsoft UK's national technology officer suggests discipling IT professions like they do doctors with sanctions for failures or incompetence.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6186364.html

Date: 06/06/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: technology, web

I'm designing a website for massage therapist. Is there a way to either program (or a free program) that allows customers to:
1) See a calendar of availabilities
2) Pick an available date and time
3) Then the calendar would be updated with the newly scheduled appointments

Is is also possible to get them, should she accept credit cards, pay for the appointment before it is booked?

Any suggestions for tutorials, or inexpensive pre-written programs would be greatly appreciated.

I haven't designed pages in a long time so I'm rusty with the technology if I were just pointed in the right directions.

The site is www.redthreadenergetics.com

Thanks for your consideration.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1262220.html

Date: 06/08/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: technology

Imagine the best way to give dictation (without spelling mistakes) or to program without typing and that pesky carpal tunnel syndrome - by pure mind control alone. Scientists at Brown University and Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems (and others) have made this possible; as published last week in Nature. The application of this technology boggles imagination. Nagle, a [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ultimate-human-computer-interface-mind-control-research-on-mind-control-thought-reading/

Date: 06/12/07 (Web Technology)    Keywords: technology

The online video service will soon test a new video identification technology with Time Warner and Walt Disney.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6190309.html