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Job Vacancy: e-Learning Systems Developer « Learning Technology Section The successful candidate will have a degree in a related subject and proven ability in a range of technical development skills including object oriented PHP, JavaScript, and CSS. Also desirable would be experience with PHP frameworks, ASP/VB Script, JavaScript libraries (e.g. jQuery), and ASP.NET. It is anticipated that the successful candidate should also possess visual flair and exceptional design skills. Candidates must also have excellent communication and presentation skills, a proven ability to self manage and prioritize a varied and challenging workflow of development and support tasks, have a sound knowledge of current issues surrounding educational systems and data management and be able to fit into an established and award winning e-learning team. Ref: 3014325. Closing date: 23 May 2011. Salary Scale: £29,972 – £35,788

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The Guardian normally has some stunning images across it's centre spread, and this one is no exception Eyewitness: Mind the gap | World news | guardian.co.uk If you use the previous button to go back two images there's another amazing shot of lightening over Portland.

There's some nice kit there. Thanks.

Thanks for that, I did actually need to use them in school. The Blue Highway font is the closest. If you look at the lower case "t" you'll see what I mean.

Yahoo is blocked here, have to wait 'til this evening.

I'm looking for a free font as similar as possible to Gotham. If anybody can point to such a beast I'd be very grateful.

I was just handed the Geography package this morning and everything appears to go to plan but when I click on the link to the program there's no content displayed (we're using Moodle 1.9, by the way) hitting the Enter button brings up a page which has a countdown as the program is "loading" then a 404 error. I sent an email to their tech support this morning before coming here. Oh dear.

The full text of the letter can be found here - Why don't Tories use FPTP to elect their own leader - Letters from Leamington Observer If the Tories used First Past the Post (FPTP) then David Davies would would have been elected leader of the Tory party.

@bossman : thanks for your advice; I hadn't thought of looking to BT for phones (!). I had a similar problem to the one FN-GM mentions a long time ago when my broadband was supplied by Freeserve/Orange, though not with wireless. If anybody was online the line dropped sometimes as soon as someone picked up a phone to make a call. This only lasted for a short period (months) and despite being told by Orange that the problem lay with my set up was resolved without any change to my domestic set up.

We have some very, very old Hagenuk DECT phones which are playing up, and we're looking to replace them with something newer, was looking at these Siemens Gigaset CS385 Cordless Phone . It's a long time since I looked into this stuff. does any Edugeeker have any suggestions/recommendations?

Nicely subtle HDR. Have a look here - RAW HDR Processing | Andre Gunther Photography for some tips on creating HDR images from a single RAW image.

must have hit the 1 rather than 2. I think it's being taken offline on the 29th April.

I've voted 40 as there doesn't appear to be a scroll bar on the poll section at the top. Happy Birthday Ric.

I don't know yet if I'm going Gatt, but if I am, would you want a lift?

I've never heard of her.

That's why I like the quote. It's humorous but also makes the valid point that not all gay men are like Alan Carr, and it would be sad if the preconceptions of what being gay mean to some of the pupils of this school were replicated throughout the country.

I should have suggested that as this is the jobs forum, then this argument should be held elsewhere.

Ian McKellen takes his gay tour to schools, and one pupil says, "We Googled you yesterday... Sir Ian. We were well surprised when we found out you were gay, because you're nothing like Alan Carr!"

I can't disagree with that summary, and it made sense to follow this principle even in the first wave. Solutions to problems uncovered with the first new builds could then be incorporated into subsequent plans. It may be that I felt the report was stating the obvious when it said that made-to-measure designs were prohibitivley expensive and over budget, and the modular approach, in hindsight, was the cheaper option. The initial brief was for 'statement' architecture. Perhaps the obvious needed stating in the report. Not having seen too many new builds, I don't feel able to comment on their harmony with the surrounding area.

Wasn't part of the BSF remit, at least in the early days, to produce buildings of note, which would reflect well on the surrounding area (not the exact wording, I know)? I think it was becoming obvious by about Wave 5 that in order to save costs schools would be more limited in the designs they could choose.

That's a disappointing reply. Michael Gove was once a BBC employee. Facebook petition to sack BBC’s Nick Robinson | People in the News | People | The First Post

With the impending move of parts of the BBC to Salford Quays (nr. Manchester), there are a lot of technical vacancies being advertised. You can get a look at them here - BBC - Jobs North - Home. Should be exciting.

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I can't argue with that, you're right of course. Though I will add, not as an attempt to have the last word on this, that "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité" tend to be the words seen on most, if not all, French public buildings. And I fell for that line.