Monthly Archives: February 2007

XGL and Beryl

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Niall pointed me at a link earlier that was fairly dated, however what I was looking at was really cool. It was exactly what I saw over the weekend at SkyCon when Dave Wilson from heanet was getting setup for his talk. I’ve basically installed Beryl and a few other bits n bobs, include xserver-xgl and now I’ve got the most fantastic looking desktop and animations I’ve ever seen. It’s quite amazing as I never thought I’d see such beauty on Linux. I can’t really take many screen shots, as lots of the actions require alt and so does screen capture. If I’m bothered, I’ll bind screen capture to something else and see what I can do.

It is just fantastic though. Really, it is.

I followed the following url mostly to the letter.

Blacknight support ASP.NET AJAX extensions

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We’re proud to announce that we now support the new ASP.NET Ajax extensions. We’ve had Robert from Microsoft testing it out to make sure it all looks well. And it does! He had a lot of fun trying it out and playing with a hosted environment which I don’t think he had seen or used before.

Anyway all new Windows sign-ups will have this support. I’ll be rolling it out on the other servers to cater for existing customers in the coming week. Just after I do a load of patching of php 4 on both our linux and windows platforms :-(

We have a test site setup where Robert put up his test application that utilises this new extension to .NET and it looks pretty damn cool.

Blacknight are hiring again!

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Blacknight (my employer, my company) are hiring again. We need another programmer/developer to add to our increasing systems engineering team. We have several tasty projects that are on-going with a few more coming up.

Job Details:

  • Location is Carlow, Ireland
  • Salary is between 28k and 34k euro depending on experience
  • Health care cover optional
  • Pension is also optional

Requirements for the applicant:

  • He/She should have at least 2 years experience in a commerical environment with php, xml, use of API’s.
  • Having knowledge of javascript, ajax, ruby on rails, perl, c and bash/shell scripting would be a big plus
  • Having some UI skills would also be a big plus
  • The applicatant must be a team player, he will report directly to our senior developer.

Please send cvs in pdf format to management [ at ] blacknight.ie