jarofgreen

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   by jarofgreen 9y ago

   Do you have specific examples? Given that any idiot can publish a packagist library (Hello!) that's kind of like saying "The code on GitHub does". I'll start by saying Symfony seems pretty good.
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   by jarofgreen 9y ago

   There is something you can do - keep the candidate up to date with what's going on. If the candidate has to write a sodding bot to pester the company, that's a sign the company has dropped the ball on communications. I've bee
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   by jarofgreen 10y ago

   > There's an open ticket about "fading them out" a little to make it even more obvious. As someone who recently was job hunting and come across another site with this problem: absolutely do this. You get the bonus of inst
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   by jarofgreen 10y ago

   The only people I know off doing that now are WordPress. Modern PHP really has come a long way. (And in it's defence, a lot of good PHP at the time didn't use this auto-escaping feature. It was the PHP's designers flawed [as
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   by jarofgreen 10y ago

   You can find events feeds by clicking Export at https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/area/59-scotland - the rest is not available yet, but request noted.
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   by jarofgreen 10y ago

   I haven't seen that appear yet - if you have any problems or comments about the process let us know!
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   by jarofgreen 10y ago

   Fixed! Thanks. (Anyone can suggest changes tho!)
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   by jarofgreen 10y ago

   Thank you :-) Events is where we started. I come from a background as an local event organiser, and from that I ended up starting https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/ 4 and a half years ago. I'll maybe see you around town t
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   by jarofgreen 10y ago

   Thanks for your suggestion! Just been playing with some different sans-serif and serif fonts to have a look ... not sure I like all Serif - may end up with a mix - Arial in the header and titles and a serif font in the body? Will test with
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    by jarofgreen 10y ago

    Thanks! :-) We're also based in Edinburgh, great place.
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    by jarofgreen 10y ago

    If you have any contacts there, please do pass on https://find.techin.scot/companies/add :-)
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    by jarofgreen 10y ago

    Just sent you an email from your contact form, we should chat.
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    by jarofgreen 10y ago

    Thanks :-) Oh, companies house is a good one. I would have a look, but I would be wary as I can see traps; for instance the legal office address registered at Companies House might not be the actual office address you should go to for an ev
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    by jarofgreen 10y ago

    No-one has added them :-) https://find.techin.scot/companies/add/ (Actually Skyscanner just has, and they will appear shortly when the caches clear.)
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    by jarofgreen 10y ago

    Hello! I’m the creator of this. For more than 4 years now I’ve been running websites round the tech community in Scotland, and several people have talked to us about listing companies. So this is the first version of that! Anyone can add or
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    Show HN: A Directory of Tech Companies, Events, News, Tweets etc in Scotland(find.techin.scot)

    131 points by jarofgreen 10y ago|36 comments
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    by jarofgreen 10y ago

    Was an interesting talk, thanks!
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    by jarofgreen 10y ago

    > We are at a crossroads of consumer attention when it comes to reading, writing, and the “blogosphere”. With the seemingly endless amount of standalone blogs out there on the web, the market is thirsting for a platform that will consoli
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    by jarofgreen 10y ago

    Just FYI, https://akkroo.com/jobs/developer says no Visa's and this says Visas.
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    by jarofgreen 10y ago

    Fair point, and good on you then. (It has been illegal in Scotland for years, I lose track of some details down south.)
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    by jarofgreen 10y ago

    > without charging any admin fees to tenants Isn't that illegal in the UK anyway? :-)
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    by jarofgreen 10y ago

    The book discusses this point well. (Arguably the article could have done a better job with this.) Seriously, it's a good book and I would recommend it.
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    by jarofgreen 10y ago

    Hello. I have a quick question about this job - is there an email I can get in touch on? My email/details are at http://jmbtechnology.co.uk/
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    by jarofgreen 10y ago

    Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: PHP, Symfony, Silex, Android (Java), CSS, JS, DB, SQL, Linux hosting, Automated testing & other modern practices. Résumé/CV: http://jmbtechn
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    by jarofgreen 10y ago

    SEEKING WORK - Edinburgh, Scotland or Remote Web/PHP work with Symfony2, CSS, JS, DB/SQL, Linux hosting, Automated testing & other modern practices. Also Native Android apps. Can develop full spec for work with UX/UI feed
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    by jarofgreen 10y ago

    > To be honest, I have never been in a situation where I have to recruit people. I have (tho admittedly, not in the tech sector). But I can believe it.
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    by jarofgreen 10y ago

    I wrote a small script a while back to collect all the rules from various .htaccess files into one file you can then just include in your main config - might be useful for some. https://github.com/JMB-Technology-Limited&#x2F
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    by jarofgreen 10y ago

    I wondered that to. > For example, if you are looking to download a new version of Firefox or a popular software package such as VLC and get this warning Am I reading to much in to this, or are they doing something clever to only apply t
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    by jarofgreen 10y ago

    Just saw your comment - you interested in Open Source software for this? :-) http://ican.openacalendar.org/
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    by jarofgreen 10y ago

    Thank you! :-)