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Day May 10, 2005

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What is UP with the state of web development courses?

May 10, ’05 3:19 PM

In my job I interview client-side developers on a fairly regular basis. As some of you may know, it’s quite hard to find qualified applicants. A lot of the resumes I read are from folks who started web development in ’99, taught themselves this new thing called web development, but failed to keep up with the times — I’m always shocked at how many resumes I see that don’t list CSS as a skill.

These people aren’t my problem. If you aren’t interested in continuing education, fine, see you later.

My problem is with the people who just got out of school, actually studied web development (very recently), and still have no CSS, DOM or XHTML skills. Heck, I’m glad if they’ve heard of them!

And, to be precise, my problem isn’t with the people — it’s with the schools who are teaching them legacy crap, and aren’t teaching the skills needed to be competitive, or even competent in today’s market.

This is something that really should be looked into, and I think I will.

Students are paying to learn legacy crap!

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A First Look at Tiger’s new VoiceOver

May 10, ’05 12:28 PM

Jason Wong’s dad is apparently visually handicapped, so they were excited to hear about the new screen reader that’s part of the new OS X.

This is just the first of what I hope is many posts. The need for screen readers is sure to become more and more prevalent as computer usage embeds itself more and more deeply into our society (and as baby boomers head into old age and start to lose faculties).

An interesting snippet:

I was told that Apple had a blind person in QA, testing Voiceover for over a year. What’s more, he was using the 12″ Powerbook, with the lcd removed, making it the lightest Apple laptop ever built.

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PSP Billboard in SoHo

May 10, ’05 11:34 AM

Over the past few days I’ve been documenting the construction of the Sony PSP billboard outside my office. (Well, I didn’t start documenting it until it was 95% done, but oh well.)

It started functioning some time last weekend, and today (Tuesday) there’s a lovely Remote Desktop error message in the display. You know, they’re no longer funny, these Windows errors, they’re starting to become depressing.

UPDATE: Thanks to AdJab for picking up the story. :)

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Kottke Integrates Ajax and XMLHttpRequest

May 10, ’05 10:59 AM

Jason Kottke has a really nice post about his initial (successful) atempt to integrate Ajax and XMLHttpRequest into his site. At the top of the home page is a drop down populated on the fly, with links to various portions of his site, as well as on-the-fly RSS feeds of other popular sites (like BoingBoing, NYTimes, etc).

I just wish I could understand it all… Seriously — I don’t know if it’s because I’m too busy, or because I’ve been simply tired of it all recently, but I just can’t wrap my head around XMLHttpRequest. Maybe it’s because I’m a dope. Yeah, there you go.

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