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Welcome, I'm an experienced developer using Symfony, Silverstripe and LAMP currently working for yigg.de in München Germany

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Wednesday, 18th of March Chicken police.

An odd idea, but what about it. Reduce costs in police force by employing chickens for 'keeping the peace' - they might even do a better job in Baghdad.... See the preliminary test results.

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Tuesday, 17th of March Jquery plugin development

I've been thinking a lot about developing a plugin system for a secret form helper library with j-query. I now believe its superior to the prototype/script.acu.lous equivalents, which the current code is running in.
Prototype is trusted and true and since developing a modular prototypal event based unobtrusive frontend javascript (hows that for a tongue twister) for YiGG I've stepped on it's limitations over and over.
Perhaps its time for us faithfuls to step up and play around a bit with jquery plugin development now that its mainstream, popular and tested.

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Friday, 13th of March ROI on social communication in business

"Since information does not diffuse randomly in organisations, but rather reflects the nature and structure of human relationships, providing the right tools that support human social relationships, communication and interaction, will provide a significant ROI to the enterprise."
http://www.theappgap.com/roi-of-being-social-at-work.html

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Wednesday, 11th of March Signs your developers do not have enough work....

Soooo Good!

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