ChrisRicca

NYC or REMOTE http://TanookiLabs.com/iOS

iOS developers needed at our fast-growing Rails & iOS consultancy. We need full-time people, as well as part-time freelancers who want to build their own projects while working with us.

Why we're different:

- We focus on entrepreneurs and products, and are picky about our clients. Our goal is to learn from everyone we work with.

- We reject that idea that a shop needs to be a mill. We work 35hrs/week. A common refrain is "why are you still here? go home!"

- We're developers ourselves. We founded this thing because we love building.

- We believe that we win when our employees win, and codify that in great pay and serious profit sharing. When someone tries to steal you away to work on their new idea, I want you to smile and say "I can't, my gig's too sweet"

email us at contact AT tanookilabs.com if you'd like to chat!

Navigational search definitely has a lot to do with the graph. I don't think that's computer illiteracy, though. That's just how the normals use the internet ;) We techies are the fringe.

http://cdixon.org/2010/01/22/techies-and-normals/

I see the navigational search as an indication of mainstream adoption.

nearly forgot - I'm [email protected]

drop.io, Brooklyn, NY.

Most of our stack is in Ruby - always looking for good front-end hackers as well. Especially if you like clouds, you might be into what we're cooking up. Check out http://drop.io/jobs, http://dev.drop.io, or stalk us here: http://twitter.com/ChrisRicca/drop-io

Sorry about that - http://pastie.org/789318

http://pdf-render.heroku.com/ - here's hello world in Sinatra with prawn, to give you a sense of how fun it is to use :)

require 'rubygems' require 'sinatra' require 'prawn'

get '/' do "<h1>This is a simple pdf rendering webservice. GET <a href='/hello%20world.pdf'>/hello%20world.pdf</a> to get a pdf back!</h1>" end

get '/*' do content_type('application/pdf') headers['Cache-Control'] = "public, max-age=6000000000000000000"

  pdf = Prawn::Document.new
  pdf.text(params[:splat][0].gsub(/.pdf\z/,''))
  pdf.render

end

Anecdotally, I had the same experience as well. I usually have t61 on most of the day (including the first day I ever used the old interface). I purposefully didn't use http://old.thesixtyone.com/, to see if using the new interface stuck. It didn't.

For those of you who haven't used the site before, the old version is at http://old.thesixtyone.com/ for you to explore.

Yup, although the option is grey-ed out on my machine ATM, and I couldn't tell you why...

I've used it before, though

If you want custom themes beyond what Google provides, I'm hawking a tool a hacked together a couple of weekends ago. It's a just-for-fun thing so the UI is pretty sparse, but it works! :)

http://sexychrome.com

I'm a big fan of Chrome. Favorite features include the speed, full-screen browsing, detachable tabs. Needs a robust extension for CSS inspection/manipulation, though. Built in one doesn't quite flow as well as Firebug. Decent JS console.

I made a tribute to the day's events: http://chrisricca.com/failfrog

I can't believe, >30 min out, that this is still open

Yeah, sell something. It is not only a great way to fund operations, you also learn what people really need. How cool is that?

word on the street is it is going live at 9pm PST, but I have also seen 10pm, so we'll see.

Why Gears hasn't caught on:

From the Gears Developer FAQ: Q: How do I deploy an application that uses Google Gears? A: You should not do so at all.

http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=69221...

Here here. Learning a new language can be fun - opportunity cost be damned.