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Irish news, Jobs in Ireland, Jobyssey News, events, innovation
Houston, We Have Liftoff!
Jobyssey.com is live! As of this week, Jobyssey is available in a public beta version for software and IT workers and employers in the Republic of Ireland. What this means for you:
- Looking for a new software/IT job? If you take a few minutes to build out your profile on Jobyssey, you’ll be automatically shown jobs that fit you. As employers add new jobs that suit you, they’ll see your anonymous profile and be able to email you an interview invite. As always, no agencies, and your name and contact details remain hidden until you agree to interview.
- Looking for new software/IT staff? If you’re a direct employer of technical staff, we’re setting up trial accounts to let the you see what we’re all about. You’ll get several months of free job postings, and lots of individualized help setting up your profile. Pop over to www.jobyssey.com/IT-employers.php and drop us an email if you’d like us to send you some further details.
We’re really excited to have the site up and going- we’ll post updates as we go through the beta process and as we roll out new modules.
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The Father of Spring
We had the pleasure of attending a SpringSource seminar this AM (Spring Ireland 2008) being sponsored by the good people at kainos.
Upon arrival I must admit we were a little bleary eyed, 7:30 registration is early by anybody’s standards, but as I scanned the ornately decorated Banking Hall of the Westin I soon realised we were not the only ones. After a frantic rush to the coffee stand and a revitalising mug of black java (no pun intended) we were ready to absorb all the OpenSource Java information that was to be thrown at us - well almost…. -
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Interoperability in IE8- Mix08 Keynote
Clare Dillon clued us in to a Silverlight Users Group meetup last night at the Odessa Club here in Dublin to watch the keynote address from Mix08. A lot of the Silverlight content was interesting but academic for us, as at the moment Jobyssey isn’t very multimedia heavy. Ray Ozzie’s discussion of the Software+Services model shed some light on the gameplan for Microsoft in the coming years (see a summary here), but it was Dean Hatchamovitch’s discussion of IE8 that really grabbed our attention.
IE8 is going to have a number of interesting new features, but it’s also to have a much heavier focus on improved interoperability than previous IE releases (see Microsoft’s summary of the standards changes here, and a detailed discussion of exactly which standards it will be compliant with here). Better compliance with CSS/ HTML standards will hopefully mean more consistent results with the use of float positioning and the like, and hopefully less cursing the heavens as we try to figure out why a page looks one way in IE7 and another in Firefox/Safari (in case you’re cursing the fact that your IE7 optimized pages will now display incorrectly, there’s support built in for that as well).
Welcome news, and long overdue. With various versions of IE currently commanding about 50% of market share, every page has to display well across recent IE releases as well as Firefox, and there’s really no good reason for there to be so many differences in functionality. Besides the aggravation of trying to ensure that users on different browsers are having similar experiences, there are a lot of cool things out there that aren’t supported in IE7, and it’s discouraging to keep opting out of things we think would improve the site to ensure that it is viewable for everyone. Hopefully change is around the corner, though.
Thanks again to Clare for the invite and to the Silverlight guys for having us- it was a fun night, and neat peek into new Microsoft web technologies.
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