Green Non-profit seeks IT Director: for 45-55k you can "have significant experience in management of technology projects and teams. S/he will work with the team and the Chief Business Officer to develop clear technology performance standards and create and implement strategies for meeting those standards." As long as you have "Three to five years solid […]
PHP’s Header function can come in quite handy when you’re building your next greate web application. Its powerful, but as a result, its tempting to misuse it to do even the simplest things, like permanent redirects. Usually, its done like this: // redirect /publications (this page) to real page (/documents)Header("Location: /documents/"); One line of code,
In an effort to learn a new skill and get some much needed exposure to another programming language, I’ve started learning Python. Its a very neat language, and its use of whitespace to organize code pleases the code style nazi that Sandy has instilled in me. Reading the code itself, its refreshing how uncluttered it
Bolivia’s Constituent Assembly, charged with rewriting the country’s constitution by December 14th, has suspended its work indefinitely. Campesinos and other indigenous groups plan to march through the streets of Sucre peacefully to advocate national unity. But what’s does national unity mean when the MAS party, the party of the president, changes the assembly rules, so
Jamesr on Column Two sets the bar pretty high when he observes that it costs $5 million to write a CMS. On the face of it, I can’t argue with it. The temptation with writing one from scratch is that it so easy, and tempting, to have something functional with a pretty minimal investment (say
Adobe’s PDF Reader and Acrobat software are up there pretty high on my list of bloated windows software that I’ll never put on a Windows maching I get. Its slow, bloated, and takes forever to launch, which is particularly annoying when you want to read something right now! Viw Download Squad, comes news of Sumatra
I haven’t run into an article that resonated so immediately with me, that as I read it the following thought crystalized "I guess I’m not a Progressive with a capital P". Read Boudreaux’s column "Progressive — not!" Just as feudal lords protected their serfs from being raped and pillaged by invading hordes, so, too, will
I needed a simple way to find hard bounces from a mail log yesterday. Usually, you hook up a script to listen for bounced messages at an email address like "list-bounces@example.com". The script receives an email message and parses it to figure out if and why it bounced. I decided to take the opposite approach,