Lars Pind

http://www.banterist.com/archivefiles/000169.html

Pollas sent me this hilarious link. Needless to say, he and I are working together to build a dating site :)

https://www.linkedin.com/

Just noticed this on LinkedIn:

Top regions: * San Francisco Bay Area (12%) * United Kingdom (10%) * Greater New York City Area (7%) * Greater Boston Area (5%) * Brazil (5%) * Denmark (4%) * Washington D.C. Metro Area (4%) * France (3%) * Greater Los Angeles Area (3%) * Finland (3%)

So Silicon Valley, UK, New York City, Boston, and Brazil all provide larger chunks of the LinkedIn user base, but right up there with NYC and Brazil is Denmark, with its puny 5 million people! Amazing …

http://www.collaboraid.biz/about/jobs

My open source software company is looking for an experienced Quality Assurance Lead. From the help wanted ad:

We are looking for a person to manage all aspects of quality assurance and control for several web applications being developed. Candidates must have at least 2 years experience as a lead tester for a shipped product or web site. Required skills include creating test plans, executing the test plan during development, writing automated test cases, using stress testing tools, writing good bug reports, managing a daily build and test server, and evaluating requirements and design documents for testability. Our platform, OpenACS, has provisions for nightly build, test cases written in TCL, and automated testing including scripted web pages. The rest of the team will help the tester become familiar with the system; the tester is expected to perform tests and write test scripts. Initial duration 6 months, freelancing or part-time is okay. Please send representative examples of previous test plans you have written, and, if possible, bugs you have filed.

If you or anyone you know qualify, please contact us. We need the position filled immediately!

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html

It’s not that Microsoft didn’t notice this was happening. Of course they did, and when the implications became clear, they slammed on the brakes. Promising new technologies like HTAs and DHTML were stopped in their tracks. The Internet Explorer team seems to have disappeared; they have been completely missing in action for several years. There’s no way Microsoft is going to allow DHTML to get any better than it already is: it’s just too dangerous to their core business, the rich client. The big meme at Microsoft these days is: “Microsoft is betting the company on the rich client.”

Joel explains eloquently why Microsoft is in trouble. And my anecdotal evidence confirms it: Danish Radio is looking for .NET developers, and they simply can’t find any at a reasonable cost. They’re desparate.

The Raymond Chen Camp has an important lesson for those of us who are developing an application development framework, essentially a high-level operating system for web applications: If you want to have many rich applications available, make sure you maintain the ugrade path. In fact, for us over in the OpenACS world it would be relatively much simpler to do workarounds in the core for specific versions of specific packages, since we have almost all of them sitting right there in the very same CVS repository!

http://radio.weblogs.com/0133184/2004/06/13.html

I’ve been trying to wrap my head around marketing for a while now, and it’s not trivial, but very exciting and challenging. It all started with Talli handing me a copy of Marketing Warfare. I still have a long way to go. (Thanks to Dalager for the link.)

http://www.mercerhr.com/attachment.dyn?idContent=1095320&idFile=132426&userId=1020819271&Tags=DOWNLOAD&UILanguage=500

I like Copenhagen and all, but 8th-most expensive? More expensive than New York? Paris, Rome, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Chicago, San Francisco? Maybe it’s time to consider a move … that’s not a record that’s worth holding, in my opinion.

http://filmfest.cms.lynxmedia.dk/index.php?article=1

Try your luck with this cool C64 computer game-lookalike short video clip.

The Stress Fighters are a small rebel militia who have devoted their lives to fight stress in everyday life.

http://www.theregister.com/2004/05/25/yak_wireless_internet/

On a more heart-warming note, seeing technology help farmers in Nepal is heart-warming (thanks to Danielle for the link). And the solar powered relay stations are just cool.

Plaxo is a neat idea (a plug-in to Outlook that lets you transfer the burden of keeping your contact list up-to-date onto your friends). And it’s nicely executed, the user interface slick and usable.

I’m not using it myself, but I did receive about 10 requests from various friends to update my address book. And the first five, I dilligently did so. But now I’ve just started to ignore them.

In the beginning I thought it was clever for me, too, but then I realized that Plaxo doesn’t even remember my contact info across my different friends. I have to type the same stupid info in every time.

I’m sure there’s some feature on the site, which I could learn how to use, that would make Plaxo remember this for me, but it hasn’t been obvious to me yet, so from now on I’m just going to filter email from Plaxo to my Spam folder.

Nice try.