Stefan Hayden

While I am happily employed it’s been interesting watching the design job listings on 37 signals. It was an interesting choice for 37 signals to start a job posting board and to charge $250 for a 30 listing. They knew they had the eyes and ears of both people in the industry and the people who want to be in it. It’s not hard to see them hosting resumes for another obscene amount of money.

An interesting point about the listing is the order they list the categories. Design is first, followed by programming, with Miscellaneousranked above executive (which is just amusing).

Unlike craigslist all of the listings for the whole world are on the same page which creates a unique view of the world. Where are the people whounderstand the web starting their companies. It seem like all people are talking about the bay area but as the image shows there are startups all around the country.

Here’s a quick map of American and where the 30 listings on 37 signals currently are. I’ve yet to master the Google maps API for a dynamic map based off the rss feed. maybe next time.

Welcome to the first step of many in updating this dingy old web site. As I sign up for more and more web services across the internet I slowly lose time I could be devoting to adding content to this site.

This leave me with two options. I could stop using other web services (like Del.icio.us) and save my links here or I can start to combine these services back in to this site and let me update content here while still using outside services.

The first step is changing up my del.icio.us feed to integrate in to my rss. Now if I update del.icio.us or this blog they will both appear in the rss feed, so subscribe today.

I don’t intend to flood you with new content but hopefully I will finally be able to point out really interesting content that I would not have included with the web site previously.

Update: well it was working for a bit and now something broke... look for it in the near future. OKay that was not as hard as i thought it world be.

Update 2: Sorry for making your rss reader go crazy. I’m 100% sure it’s all fixed now.

Drupal 4.7 was just released. I’ve attempted to use it before and found it extremely complicated. There is no doubt that it’s powerful though and lots of great community sites use it.

It’s seems this release they have a done a lot to make it easier to use though I’ll bet it still has a high learning curve. While they seem most proud of their new ajax goodness I’m interested in checking out their new php templating system.

I’ve gotten very used to the php templating on Wordpress and I’ll be overjoyed if I can figure out how to design with drupal.

Interested? Check out this great screencast of what’s new and how to install.

I noticed an interesting quirk of Firefox today. It happens when you are on a page that requires a login to view.

If you wait for your login to expire and then view source you don’t get the source of the page you are looking at. Instead you get the html of what ever page you get kicked to when your login expires.

When you view source in Firefox it seems to go back to the server and re-download the page source. The Server see that you are not logged in and serves you the login expired page. So the HTML it shows you is different from the page you are looking at.

This seems like a really weird quirk. I have no idea why it can’t just use the local copy it clearly has already downloaded. I suppose it would not be an issue in most situations. Though it can be confusing when you are trying to figure out what in the world is going on.

About Design asks what counts as entry level designer? Basically asking why all entry level designers suck.

I find this question interesting as well. I just graduated with a BFA from a liberal arts school, TCNJ. It was a hard program and there were many night where entire classes stayed up all night to finish projects.

I’ve heard lots of talk about how sub par design students are these days and how they don’t have the wide range of skills they used to.

I’m not entirely sure if that’s true or if the times have simply changed. I can say that a lot of time is spent at school simply learning the basics. A class in web design, a class in illustrator, a class in photoshop. it’s easy to see where other things can fall through the cracks with some much time just learning the tools.

Was there more time in the past with fewer programs to learn? I have heard people say that it’s the people who are the problem. that the golden age of design is over. I have a hard time believing that and think it has to have something to do with the process. Where does the education break down?