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In the Spotlight: PHP Developer Jobs

While Authentic Jobs may be noted more for its design jobs than development ones, there's certainly no shortage of the latter around the U.S. and even for remote work. Highlighted below are a few of these, specifically those looking for skilled PHP developers.

K-fx², Inc. offers a relocation bonus for the right PHP/Zend Developer looking to settle in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. You'll have an edge over other applicants if you can "coherently explain what 'fat models, skinny controllers' means and...

Finally, a Fluid Hicksdesign

Finally, a Fluid Hicksdesign:

The columns don't just resize (or reposition). The images don't just resize. The text doesn't just resize. It all resizes.

Impressive stuff, Jon.

Apple: 3 Million iPads in 80 Days

Apple: 3 Million iPads in 80 Days:

There's not a whole lot of new stuff they can say following the 2 million milestone just a few weeks ago. Hence, "magical" appears three times in this brief press release.

Pilot Handwriting

Pilot Handwriting:

Print a sheet, write your uppercase and lowercase letters by hand, take a photograph of it with your webcam, and begin typing. Restricted to this (promotional) site, but looks like fun, albeit somewhat tedious fun.

How to Add PDF Files to iBooks

How to Add PDF Files to iBooks:

This is fairly straightforward, but apparently not straightforward for me—I wasn't able to figure it out without googling the solution. (Love the double irony in the article's final photo: Using iPad to read a Windows 7 manual, whose cover includes a doctored Apple PowerBook photo as the featured Windows computer.)

Alternatively, you can move PDFs from Dropbox simply by clicking the arrow in the upper right of the Dropbox app for iPad and then selecting iBooks:

Trent Walton: Trimming the Fat

Trent Walton: Trimming the Fat:

I completely agree with Trent's observation about iPad influencing the way we design for non-iPad mediums:

This site wasn't intended solely for the iPad, though it is inspired by my experience browsing the web sans mouse. Many of the assertions I made before getting an iPad have been strengthened each time I slide, swipe and tap my way across the inter-web. Each change I've made (larger font size, less content/page, fewer columns) has been shaped by my belief...

"Swype" Input for Touchscreen Mobile Phones

"Swype" Input for Touchscreen Mobile Phones:

The New York Times reports on a technology in development by the same inventor of T9, a predictive text input technology used by most "candy bar" phones with numeric keypads. Watch the Swype demos on YouTube.

Try it out on your iPhone or similar touchscreen device. You won't be able to type anything, but it seems to me there's a noticeable speed improvement over thumbing. This tells me the technology has potential.

Type Hinting

Type Hinting:

Peter Biľak:

I have been designing type since the early 1990s, and for as long as I can remember, type designers have been saying that hinting would soon be made obsolete by new advances in hardware and software. Now, almost 20 years later, hinting seems to be more relevant than ever.

According to Peter, hinting—the process of mapping a font's mathematical outlines onto a monitor's pixels—remains relevant even with @font-face in play, which explains why it's likely we'll see f...

Replaying a 1982 Football Match in an Urban Environment

Replaying a 1982 Football Match in an Urban Environment:

A meticulous remake of the last 15 minutes of the 1982 World Cup match between France and Germany. Camera angles, player movements, and even audience participation were all carefully recreated in various urban environments.

Filed under "Way Too Much Time on Your Hands."

/via Coudal

Why I Sold Zappos

Why I Sold Zappos:

Tony Hsieh, recalling nearly a decade of financial ups and downs and the meeting with Jeff Bezos that eventually led to Amazon's acquisition:

Out of nowhere, Jeff said, 'Did you know that people are very bad at predicting what will make them happy?' Those were the exact words on my next slide. I put it up and said, 'Yes, but apparently you are very good at predicting PowerPoint slides.' After that moment, things got comfortable. It seemed clear that Amazon had come to...