This week saw the release of Google Chrome, Google’s new feature-rich browser based on WebKit and Firefox components. It has been met with a mixed response and has also raised some interesting thoughts/issues/discussions…
See for example the outcry about the extreme licensing “liberties†(http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/does_google_have_rights_to_all.php) that Google is taking in their terms and conditions […]
Published by Peter Flynn August 29th, 2008 in Office Stuff, WWW Site and PersonL.
PersonL is now ready for use for paying clients and we have already secured three paying clients (details to follow as clients go live).
This week we released the last of the vital/core features and the team is now focussing on the “wishlist/enhancement” items (some of which can be seen here). Immediately we will be building:
The […]
Yesterday, I (proudly) sent the following mail to the office:
“We have just officially entered PersonL (last minute) into this years TechCrunch50 Contest
We had half applied, decided it was too late, and then they mailed me yesterday and asked me to complete the entry by tomorrow…
So we got cracking and churned out a much upgraded web […]
Published by Peter Flynn August 1st, 2008 in Office Stuff, WWW Site and PersonL.
CareerPlanet is an initiative designed to contribute, meaningfully, towards the development of a skills pipeline for South Africa.
In practical terms, CareerPlanet has a mobile network of computers and trainers who setup in shopping malls for a week at a time and assist kids to understand the “world of work,” profile themselves and have their minds […]
Last week the horror of xenophobic attacks that had been gripping the country spread to Cape Town. With more than 18 000 foreign nationals displaced from their homes scared, cold,tired and hungry. Our staff decided to do something about it. Bianca Clavaux our HR coordinator had this to say “we just don’t realize how blessed […]
Published by Peter Flynn May 20th, 2008 in Office Stuff and WWW Site.
Matthew Buckland wrote an interesting article giving a good overview of the importance of the decision “which CMS technology should we use for our web app?” and catagorizes the possible solutions into three basic categories, namely 1. open source, 2. proprietary and 3. built from scratch.
At WWW, we have been delivering Content Management System (CMS) solutions […]
Published by Peter Flynn March 14th, 2008 in Office Stuff and WWW Site.
Having outgrown our previous Cape Town offices, we are proud to announce our much anticipated move to our new space. We are in the process of moving today (Friday 14th March) and will all be in on Monday the 17th. On Sunday the 16th we will be celebrating with a champagne breakfast at our […]
Published by Peter Flynn March 12th, 2008 in Office Stuff, WWW Site and PersonL.
PersonL is a full web based recruiter talent manager software suite. It incorporates the entire recruitment process from the creation of job specifications, advert management, registering of applicants (CV’s and personal profiles), intelligent matching algorithms, interview stages with automated regret and approval correspondence.
“This has been over a year in the making with the dedicated focus […]
Published by Peter Flynn March 11th, 2008 in Office Stuff and WWW Site.
WWW is proud to announce that www.photoevents.co.za is up live. The system allows event photographers to publish galleries of images and then gove password protected access to the galleries to all those who attended the event. Logged in users can then order prints of the images and pay for them online. The prints are delivered […]
Off we go! Another year of discovery, excitement, change and quite possibly some daunting challenges awaits our brave developer hearts once more. As we walk bleary-eyed to our desks again, fresh smells of coffee filling the office, it’s an excellent time to refocus – amongst other things – on our technical goals; how we’d like […]