Sunday March 30, 2008

- Intern offer - Lionel - 13:51:02

We forward a training offer:

Keyade is an agency that specializes in the search of marketing sources (text or image advertising on search engines such as Google, Yahoo or MSN). It advises and manages investments in listings of companies in France and abroad, helping them to attack new markets and / or expand in existing markets. Keyade now has 12 people.

The company designs its own tools to assist officers in their work. It is the original owner of the tool for tracking and reporting.

Today, Keyade is looking for an intern at the end of his/her studies for a period of 6 months to 1 year (BAC/ BAC +2 or +3).

Mission:
-- Understanding of the problems of the rep/officer for the account
-- Development and improvement of tools used by account officers
-- Assistance and Training of officers of account.
-- Network and System Administration
-- Web Development
-- Participation in the drafting of documentation explaining the functioning of the company's tools

Skills:
-- Php 5 (Object)
-- MySql 5
-- Javascript
-- CSS
-- HTML
-- Objectivity and scientific rigor.
Have as a plus:
-- Knowledge of other languages: Perl, Python, Java, SH ...
-- A good knowledge of the environment: Unix / Mac OS X server.

Profile:
-- Curious, dynamic and selfstarting
-- Likes to push themselves and attention to detail
-- Appreciates teamwork
-- Good management of priorities
-- Understanding of complex issues

Conditions:
-- Duration: 6 months - 1 year, immediately available
-- Remuneration of € 800 / month

The mission is based in Paris' 10th arrondissement and may result in a CDI.
Send CV + Letter to jobs-dev@keyade.com

[translation by jeremy]

- OS X 10.5.3 beta in test - Lionel - 12:42:19

Apple has made available to developers a beta Mac OS X 10.5.3 stamped 9d10.
It fixes 75 bugs affecting several points and applications.
It will certainly be a few weeks before it is available for download.

[translation by jeremy]

- What's the future for the locking of the iPhone ? - Lionel - 12:39:21

Source: Gizmodo

Until now, Apple has made great efforts to lock the iPhone and impede access. The main reason was to avoid sim unlocking which strains their relationships with the official telecom operators. We know they have achieved little success in this area. Hackers have become knowledgeable experts in the intricacies of the unit.
The arrival of the SDK and the imperative role of AppStore that Apple wants to put in place will give them one more reason to try to block the iPhone.
But things promise to be very bad.
The iPhone dev team has shown that they have managed to unlock the 2.0 beta firmware of the device in order to be able to install unsigned software in addition to those that Apple could offer.
If until now, quoting Steve Jobs, this has all been a game of cat and mouse, the situation will become very difficult to manage.
While it is possible to unlock the iPhone and bypass AppStore, we will find an environment where developers will have to choose once and for all between the authorized route or the non-approved one. Knowing that even the developers of free software would have to pay a licence, there is a risk of the free software being distributed by parallel tracks, and on the other hand, buying through the path advocated by Apple.
Of course, Apple would not lose real money in this case, but their online store would be much poorer for the software, which would tend to attract fewer potential customers.
However, we will have to see if this will be fixed by Apple new protections yet to be put in place. It is important not underestimate them. If they offer good
protection, Apple will certainly have kept back the final version and not yet implemented it.

[translation by jeremy]

- Apple TV 2.01 update - Lionel - 12:24:45

Apple offers via Apple TV the 2.01 update whose description remains somewhat lacking.. it only announced the correction of minor bugs.
The only new thing in the update is that one can classify films by genre ...
We must mention that Apple has a real problem to promote this outside the United States, in the absence of movies on the iTunes Store, and yet there are still far too little there.

[translation by jeremy]