I stumbled across Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into HTML5 last night, and what a great read it is. Not only is it informative, teaching you about new tags and their uses, but you also get to read the history of HTML, written in Mark's entertaining style.
Just in case you were wondering.
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For those of you who aren't fans of the webcomic Nedroid Picture Diary, you should be. I never realized until I saw this strip how much sense it would make if more than just the year changed on January 1st.
According to analytics provider StatCounter, FireFox 3.5 has surpassed the market share of IE7 and IE8 for the first time. That's good news if you like the idea of diversity in the browser "ecosystem", and great news for Firefox fans and web standards devotees. But looking at the trends indicated in StatCounter's graph, I'm not sure whether Firefox's top position will continue.
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Two new job postings have come up at my company, Ping Identity. We're a strong, growing company with Fortune 500 clients and venture backing from both coasts. Contact me directly with your resume if you're interested in either of the positions below:
System Administrator, PingConnect
Summary: As a SaaS Systems Administrator at Ping Identity you will provide in-depth technical support and effective complex problem solving for a wide variety of infrastructure and applications related to the PingConnect service offering. VM, VPN, security, and network design is a must. Must be expert with IPsec and SSL VPN technologies. This position entails network and system design, implementation and maintenance. This is an on-call position that requires support and flexibility at a variety of hours.
Reporting to: Senior Director, Operations
Location: Waltham, MA or Denver, CO
Technical Product Manager
Summary: As a Technical Product Manager at Ping Identity, you will engage with customers to understand detailed use cases and drive requirements in to the Ping Identity product planning process for both PingFederate, Ping Identity's flagship on-premise software, and PingConnect, our expanding on-demand server. You will have the opportunity to interact with key stakeholders inside and outside of the company with a primary focus on the technical aspects of Ping Identity's product offering. You will also be one of the primary technical interfaces for third party technology and SaaS partners, understanding key integration points and combined value propositions.
Reporting to: Director of Product Management
Location: Denver, CO
The Magnolia Hotel is my favorite in Denver. It easily has more age, flair, and character than the other chain hotels I've stayed in. The elevators don't always run so fast, but they handle it with humor-- a plaque in each of them reads "Our elevators are old, sometimes slow, occasionally fast, and often creaky."
Oh, and the staff hold the doors open for you when you enter or leave. You won't find that behavior at the Residence Inn.
