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Hendrik sucht…

Heute: Webdesigner:

Ein Kunde von mir sucht aktuell für ein größeres Projekt 1-2 Webdesigner(innen), der/die die nächsten 2 Monate Zeit haben und vor Ort (in München) arbeiten können. Gesuchtes Profil:

• Sehr gute Designkenntnisse, v.a. in Bezug auf Websites;
• Sehr gute Kenntnisse der gängigen Tools (Photoshop, Flash etc.);
• Sehr gute Kenntnisse der in der Webentwicklung angewandten Techniken und Technologien (speziell HTML, CSS, XML und JavaScript);
• Sehr gute Kenntnisse von ActionScript;
• Selbständige und kreative Arbeitsweise;

• Das Projekt bewegt sich im Computer- und Videospiele-Bereich; Erfahrung mit der dort üblichen Bildsprache wären von Vorteil.

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Post It #18

YUI hosting. Nate on Free Hosting of YUI Files from Yahoo!:

Coinciding with this week’s release of YUI version 2.2.0, the one year anniversary of the YUI open-source release, and as announced at the YUI Party just moments ago, we’re opening up free YUI hosting from the Yahoo! network to all YUI implementers. If you’re using YUI for your own project, we’ll serve the files for you — gzipped, with good cache-control, using our state-of-the-art network, for free. You can count on these files being continuously available because they’re the same files, served by the same source, that we use for most YUI implementations at Yahoo!.

This is big, folks. Smart move, too.

Dell IdeaStorm. Dell.com’s new suggestions site kind of looks familiar. That said, I really like the idea of companies publicly gathering and displaying ideas from their users — when done right, this can be a win-win for everyone, so power to every company implementing one of those. Anyways, the one suggestion that made me grin?

Have Michael Dell try actually buying a PC using Dell.com

Google Apps. Business 2.0 Beta (how’s that for a blog name?) asks Are Google Apps’ Customers For Real?.

Here’s what Procter & Gamble actually says: “P&G will work closely with Google in shaping enterprise characteristics and requirements for these popular tools.” Translation: “One of our sysadmins is going to sign up for an account and send you bitchy emails about missing features.”

Don’t get me wrong, I like their web-based office tools, even though I don’t use them regularly. They’re well done, no doubt about it. But by now I find it somewhat unnerving that every single time Google launches something, it is hailed as the holy grail of the intarwebs.

Warcraft Lore, told by jokers. WOW Insider’s ‘Know Your Lore’ segments are pretty good. Every now and then they pick a person or event from the rich Warcraft history and recap it quickly in a fun way.

Arthas was the son of King Terenas Menethil, ruler of Lordaeron. As a youth, he trained in the art of combat and joined the Silver Hand, a group of paladins. He became known for his exploits in battle. He also briefly dallied with a young mage named Jaina Proudmoore, but it didn’t work out because long-distance things never end well. They decided to remain friends, which is as big a sign of impending doom as one can get.

Akismet & HashCash

The good fight against blog comment spam continues — I’ve added HashCash to the mix after noticing the Akismet plugin catching up to 250 spam comments per night. Let’s see whether with HashCash this number goes down; after all it is supposed to stop bots, so the comments shouldn’t end up in Akismets queue in the first place.

If you have problems posting comments (if you want to comment here for whatever reason… can’t think of anything at the moment), drop me a line. My mail address can be found around here, you know where to look.

Update: I deactivated HashCash again. After Akismet had to filter out ~50 spam comments in the last two hours, it became clear to me that HashCash doesn’t help at all. Awesome! :P

Update #2: It dawned me that pretty much all of my incoming spam is trackbacks, and HashCash doesn’t process those for apparent reasons. Huh.

You looking at me?

Mike shot this yesterday, on our Engineering field trip to the German Museum in Munich. I like how this came out.

In the background you see the friendly smile of Holger.

We’re Back

CWO is again. Here’s to good times ahead.