On April 17, I was invited to do a presentation on Git for Purple Scout in Malmö, Sweden. Around 40 people showed up (including many XMMS2 folks) and endured 2-hours on what Git is, why it’s so awesome and all the fancy stuff you can do with it. I think people liked it and although most seemed to be using Git already, they were nice enough to say that they’d learned something anyway.
I’d given talks about Git previously in Switzerland, but for this occasion I reworked and pimped up my slides quite a bit to cover more material and have more cute diagrams. As before, you can get the slides for the Git presentation (PDF), or even fiddle with the source file, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License. Reuse, modify or poke fun at at will!
Sorry it’s still in proprietary Keynote format, because that’s the only vaguely acceptable software I found to make lots of diagram easily… Any Free alternative would be welcome, if someone knows of one.
It was great fun preparing and giving this course, and being back in Sweden and seeing friends again, so tusen tack till Purple Scout for making this happen!
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The company I’m working at, Playlouder MSP, is looking for a new Javascript developer to join the team. We’re a young and dynamic London-based team working on an online social platform for listening to and sharing music, including unlimited legal access to music for a fixed monthly fee.
Excerpt of the job ad:
Media Service Provider has been working with ISPs and the music industry to offer ISP customers groundbreaking levels of access to digital music—and a groundbreaking user interface to match.
Tasked with delivering an innovative, browser-based music application to a large audience, it’s critical that we are able to deliver a reliable, responsive and fun user experience across a range of modern browsers (no IE6!). As a key addition to our development team, you’ll be central to this effort.
The role would suit a Javascript guru who enjoys the challenge of developing a real thick-client application in the browser. It may equally suit a GUI application developer with solid experience on other platforms (Cocoa, C#, Java, Flash, GTK, …) who’s confident in their ability to pick up the necessary Javascript skills.
So if you’re looking for a job in the UK and interested in music and UI development, have a look at the full job ad for all the details!
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