You will be developing world-class, engaging, interactive experiences using CSS/xHTML/jQuery on mainly ASP.NET C#.

This job may be for you if:

• You have a growing portfolio that is freely accessible
• You have experience and wish to become an expert in AJAX, JavaScript and client-side APIs/frameworks — jQuery in particular
• You have some experience and wish to become an expert in ASP.NET C#
• You strive to take designs and layouts created by others and making them function beyond the expectations of their creator
• You see simpler ways, suggest them, argue merits, and can let go and persevere if consensus is not in your favour
• You strive to deliver high-quality, production-ready code
• You are meticulous, detail and process-oriented
• You are okay working out of a 400 sq/ft home office in Brockton Village

If you love to learn and be challenged, then maybe this is for you.

Please email CVs to ryan@kharv.com

The sound quality that you get from this sound system is EXCEPTIONAL. You truly do get what you pay for when you chose Dynacord. This system is FAR superior to JBL, ElectroVoice (EV), Yamaha, Behringer, Mackie, and the majority of other smaller systems available to rent in the city of Toronto.

If you’re having an office party, loft party or if you’re a small bar/club that needs augmented sound for a live or DJ show then this is the sound system you should use. All gear is in excellent condition and looks very professional and clean.

Sound System:
2 X Dynacord PowerSub 315 (Powered Bins)
2 X Dynacord Sub 115 (Passive Bins)
4 X Dynacord D 12 / D 12-3 (12″ Top Speakers)
1 X Dynacord DSP 244 (Digital Sound Processing)
1 X Dynacord D 12-3A (Active monitor – the most awesome monitor ever)

DJ:
1 X DJ booth – WHITE custom built, portable dj booth with folding, adjustable height legs, side panels and 100′ inlaid BLUE EL wire. Nazca birds are depicted on the front panel
1 X Pioneer DJM-800
2 X Pioneer CDJ 1000 MK3
2 X Space-tek CDJ stands
2 X Technics SL-1200MK2

All gear is delivered, installed and picked up after your event.

To rent for one show (i’ll install a few days in advance if necessary):
The DJ booth and gear: $250
The full sound system (9 speakers): $450
Both: $600

Additional nights (two night gig for example) are $200.

Top Speakers can be flown for an additional fee.

I can remain through the duration of your event as a sound tech for an additional fee.

I will do smaller pieces. Prices are negotiable for smaller gigs, frequent/regular renters. Get in touch with me to discuss.

He wanted to be able to make “pages” about all the various projects that he has worked on over the years and to put of the pages into “category” buckets. He was also clear that he didn’t want a blog. He was asking for a lot and he didn’t want to spend very much putting it together so I figured that Wordpress would be his best option – but how do you make Wordpress not act like a blog? It turned out to be a lot simpler than I had expected.

I started with the ADreamToHost theme as a base and then got to work stripping out all the “blog” like aspects from the code – comments, user account creation, etc – and then I started adding in some unique and helpful plugins. For sorting categories and giving them icons I used plugins called Category Icons, My Category Order, and Category Visibility. This allowed Jeff to easily add, edit, and remove categories icons and change the order of categories on his site. All that had to be done then was to alter the Main Index Template to show categories instead of blog posts like so:

<?php if (function_exists(‘put_cat_icons’)) put_cat_icons( wp_list_categories(‘orderby=order&hierarchical=0′.’&echo=0′),’icons_only=true’); else wp_list_categories(‘orderby=order&hierarchical=0′); ?>

Jeff also wanted to be able to have visitors sign up for an email newsletter for which I installed the Newsletter and WP-Mail-SMTP plugins. Newsletter is an extremely robust and thorough plugin that handles subscribes and unsubcribes through email confirmations as well as the actual batch mailing to all of your signed up subscribers.

For embedding media into his posts I installed QuickTime Embed, Smart Youtube, and the Audio player plugin.

Jeff came up with the look and feel of the main page layout and I used the ADreamToHost template as a base for all of the sub pages.

Overall I found the majority of the chosen plugins to be very easy to work with.

Jeff’s site is hosted on Dreamhost.

One strategy is to encourage IE6 users on none IE7/8 capable systems to upgrade to Firefox. Pop up an overlay when they visit the site explaining to them that their browsing experience will be greatly enhanced if they switch to the Firefox or Chrome browsers. If enough websites start doing this then people will start getting the message.

Or maybe not.

Until the day comes when IE6 hits some magical number where clients will say enough is enough the coders can continue pulling their hair out.