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Has this been addressed directly with the employee? It hardly seems worth firing someone over.

Hmm. The left navigation stuff doesn't seem to update.

Agreed. I'd still like a response from my initial email.

Wow. This is astounding. I happened to meet him and Dave Thomas a year or so ago, and had lunch with them at a Ruby conference. Incredibly nice and funny guy, who was really smart.

I emailed out the last time this was posted, and haven't heard anything back other than "we'll reach out to you soon".

I think, in theory, this is really neat. One of the things I struggle with when learning something new (especially something more involved), is finding a way to put it into practice.

With that said, I think there could be a bit more description, or perhaps some examples of what I'd actually be signing up for, and how it works.

As a bit of trivium, on Chrome on OSX, auto-fill for the email doesn't work properly, and while small, it might help get a tiny bit higher conversion if that was addressed.

I'm interested.

Email sent.

SEEKING WORK – Remote / Washington, DC Metropolitan Area

- I’m a full stack web developer who can take care of your web presence end-to-end, including hosting and system administration, as well as building out your designs.

What I can do for you:

- VPS Setup & Configuration, whether for a web server or otherwise.

- General SysAdmin work.

- PHP / MySQL back-end development (have been using Rails at my day job for 6 months or so, but I’m sure your money would be better used with another Rails developer).

- HTML5 Front-End, with excellent knowledge of best practices, and how to best deal with browser inconsistencies.

- Javascript: Been developing with jQuery since version 1.3, and greatly enjoy using Backbone.js as well. Of course, I can do the same tasks with “raw” Javascript, it’ll just take longer.

- Responsive Design: I’m excellent at converting existing templates into a responsive design to allow for mobile compatibility.

- CSS: Whether it be debugging some wonky IE6 issue, or creating a solid Compass pipeline for you, I’m here to help.

- CMS: I’ve developed several in-house content management systems, as well as doing a large amount of work in Wordpress and (ugh) Joomla.

My major projects: http://wireless.walmart.com, http://wirefly.com, http://www.rcn.com

Feel free to reach out to me at ryandavies@gmail.com

Love it!

Writer, if you want some contribution, I've got some ideas and drafts down as I was writing some of this for my own blog.

Wow, I'm horrid at typing on my phone sometimes.

What I meant was Codecademy: http://www.codecademy.com/ And the Pragmatic Programmer's Book on HTML5 and CSS3: http://pragprog.com/book/bhh5/html5-and-css3

Official Specs: http://www.w3.org/

Netscape Composer. Serious PTSD kicking in.

I'd do the Codecademt exercises, then pick up the Pragzprog book on HtML5/CSS3 if you were looking to start. Also, go through the official specs.

The Industry, by Adam Stacoviak, Jared Erondu, and Drew Wilson.

Great group of folks talking about design-focused startups and a lot of cool front-end tech.

Disrupting the restaurant experience. From discovery, to ordering, to service, to receipts. Pretty much everything to do with it is broken and inefficient, so lots of work to be done.

Highest CTR was with Perl developers? Are you sure you advertised on Facebook and not Usenet? ;).

"Default reply to all"

This isn't a feature. It's a bug.

Thanks a bunch for the invite, I'm booked up on Friday but would love to meet with you all sometime! It's great to see activity in the DC Startup community.

Facebook to front page in 2004: "16 points for being able to see who my friends are?"

Twitter to front page in 2005: "16 points for being able to write short messages?"

eBay to front page in 1998: "16 points for being able to sell things?"

It isn't about how involved or difficult a task is. Twitter wasn't "hard" to build (early on). It's about the utility of something, and this provides a great deal of utility. I don't mean my post to come off as a flame, as that's not at all what it's intended, but I, for one, find this very useful.

This is really wonderful. Great for those of us who work from tablets frequently.

Right now, it's suffering from a 502 Bad Gateway ;).

Unusable floor space, higher than necessary vertical space. Seems largely inefficient to me. I don't need ten feet I'd be very happy with 8. This could theoretically fit 1/6 more people into the same amount of "square land" without any drawbacks other than cosmetics.

Inventions I'd like to see: Solar / radiant heat rechargeable thermostat. Annoying to have to replace mine with a watch battery once every six months.

Dual-filament bulbs that only fire one at a time. First one burns out, second one still provides light (perhaps at reduced output?), but indicates it is in need of replacement somehow. Not necessarily needed for standard bulbs, but the recessed lighting in my current place needs this badly. Bulbs are expensive and I don't keep them on hand if I'm not going to need them. But when I do need them, I'd like to have a bit of notice to get them before I lose light in a certain area of my home.

Flux (brightness / color adjustment for OSX) for all lighting in the home. Adjust amount of lighting based on time of day.

I've found this exact problem before with Bootstrap. I solved it, but it was perhaps 6mo ago and don't remember, otherwise I'd take care of it for you.

Congrats again on shipping a kick-ass product.

Cool idea. Homepage needs tweaked for iPad. Content pushed to absolute edges with 0 margin.

As an avid supporter of the project, shoot an email if you want a Web dev to build it out for you :).

I think that's also a "Java" deal. You could go to a COBOL meetup and see the same thing, that doesn't make it the norm.

Really cool idea! Love the header background-image ;).

Which hackathon?

Absolutely flooded with emails from this, doing my best that I can to get back to everyone in a reasonable amount of time, but hang tight! Lots of cool projects, the hard part now is choosing what I'll actually want to work on. Don't sweat it if I can't help you right now, keep in touch with me and I'll do my best to give a hand in the future.

Seeking Freelancer (DC Metropolitan Area)

We're a group of Wordpress developers working on all sorts of neat themes/plugins/blog solutions of all sorts. Small team, informal environment, well-backed by a large company.

We're looking for both LAMP stack and Front-End Developers (jQuery for most of our Javascript needs, but should be able to hand-code as well).

The office is located in Fairfax, VA, we typically get together one or two nights a week, so would prefer if you'd be able to do that. Send an email to ryandavies@gmail.com if you'd like some more info!

Simplexity (simplexity.com, wirefly.com)

UX Analyst / Developer Roles (Separate) Reston, VA

Shoot me an email, rdavies@simplexity.com. We've got an awesome culture, and you get to work with a LOT of really smart people.