I just published a competition on The web site of Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax with prices like free ebook vouchers, copies of said book or Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance . All you need to show is either a little creativity or lack of fear of public embarassment.
I just stumbled upon workfriendly, a web service that shows a web site inside a frame that looks like it is Microsoft Office Word 2003. The clue is that instead of just showing the page in the frame, the service also turns off imagery and layout and makes the web site appear as if it was a Word document. Perfect for those offices where the boss frowns upon web surfing.
We are currently looking for a contractor to start ASAP at a approximately one week project implementing a user module on a large scale portal site.
The job will include Ajax and some PHP and you will have use the YUI library.
The successful applicant will have to join us in Covent Garden, London and may have to go for lunchbreaks and drinks!
Please supply demo URLs of projects you’ve done and what you expect in terms of rates as comments here – they are moderated which means only I will get them.
I just installed Aptana and peeked at some of the Aptana Screencasts to see what this IDE can do and I am very impressed.
I am a sold to Homesite, ever since version 2.5, but lately I found myself more and more using my Mac and I hate using different IDEs. WordWrangler and CSSEdit seemed to odd as an IDE (give me shortcuts, not floating toolbars), Dreamweaver was just too overwhelming and costs too much, and others were just not my cup of tea.
Aptana, however, seems to be really focused on web development and integrates all the big JavaScript libraries. That way using the YUI is a lot quicker as the IDE autocompletes all those long namespaces.
Now, if only I knew that it supports UTF-8 as well as UltraEdit does, then I’d be sold to this one. I’ll give it a spin and keep you updated as to my findings.
Friends of Ed just released another book I participated in. Collected under the succinct title “Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance” you will find all you ever wanted to know about web accessibilty.
I cannot talk much about the other chapters, but the list of writers and knowing what they have done in the past makes it a vast source of knowledge.
My contribution was a chapter on “Accessible JavaScript”.