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March 28, 2012
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We’re Hiring – User Interface Designer

We are looking for a passionate UI Designer to build beautiful interfaces for all our tools and services. The ideal candidate will be a cross disciplined designer – able to take concepts from wireframes to pixel perfect implementations using CSS, HTML and Javascript. The ideal candidate be passionate about creating a great user experience and willing work on everything across the company.

Responsibilities:
- Taking directions from the UI Director, but being able to make complex decisions independently based on functional requirements
- Working with product managers to build visual mock ups of new and rejuvenated site features from wireframe models and technical specifications
- Participating in development meetings to drive product vision
- Being able to construct clear, guided, conceptual work, which demonstrates UX flow and user-case scenarios

Design Requirements and Skills:
- 2+ years of UI design and development experience required.
- Solid XHTML/CSS coding skills.
- Execute complete design process from wireframes to final implementation.
- Proven knowledge of Javascript and JQuery – We’re looking for some innovative UI here.
- Portfolio of online applications showing a good sense of usability combined with good layout and visual design.
- Comfortable working in Django templates or a similar template language.

How to apply
Send your resume to: careers@doublespring.com

March 6, 2012
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Django 1.4 release likely on 12-March

Django 1.4 will be released tentatively on 12-March from Santa Clara, CA where most of the Django crew will be hanging out at PyCon.

You may recall that Django 1.4 Alpha was released in December, but as with all alpha and beta packages, it was not for production use.
We are eagerly awaiting the stable version so we can begin migration of our deployments sometime next week.

Note: Django 1.4 has dropped support for Python 2.4. Python 2.5 is now the minimum required Python version. Django is tested and supported on Python 2.5, 2.6 and 2.7

October 11, 2011
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Coding A HTML 5 Layout From Scratch

HTML5 and CSS3 have just arrived (kinda), and with them a whole new battle for the ‘best markup’ trophy has begun. Truth to be told, all these technologies are mere tools waiting for a skilled developer to work on the right project. As developers we shouldn’t get into pointless discussions of which markup is the best. They all lead to nowhere. Rather, we must get a brand new ideology and modify our coding habits to keep the web accessible.

While it is true HTML5 and CSS3 are both a work in progress and is going to stay that way for some time, there’s no reason not to start using it right now. After all, time’s proven that implementation of unfinished specifications does work and can be easily mistaken by a complete W3C recommendation. That’s wereProgressive Enhancement and Graceful Degradation come into play.

October 11, 2011
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CSS3 Solutions for Internet Explorer

CSS3 is probably the hottest trend in web design right now, allowing developers the opportunity to implement a number of solutions into their projects with some very straightforward CSS while avoiding having to resort to nonsemantic markup, extra images, and complex JavaScript. Unfortunately, it’s not a surprise that Internet Explorer, even in its most recent version, still does not support the majority of the properties and features introduced in CSS3.

Experienced developers understand that CSS3 can be added to new projects with progressive enhancement in mind. This ensures that content is accessible while non-supportive browsers fall back to a less-enhanced experience for the user.