A little off topic but if you're British and can help, it would be great if you could email your MP support the statement calling for a free vote.

Currently the law protects adults from being hit - but gives children less protection. In April MPs will have the chance to vote on giving children equal protection.

We [NSPCC] urgently need your help now to persuade the Government to allow MPs to have a free vote. Otherwise Labour MPs may be compelled to vote against equal protection because that is what the Government wants. More and more Labour MPs are demanding a "free vote" on this issue, which means that they want to vote according to their conscience rather than the party line.

A free vote is vital to achieving equal protection for children in 2008. Please help us by emailing your MP, asking them to support the statement calling for a free vote for Labour MPs.

Just a quick post to let you know that Adobe have launched a new open source website.

The site:

is designed to keep you up to date on Adobe open source activities, within Adobe as well as with the larger world. It will also be the point of entry to our source code contributions, including Flex, BlazeDS and others. We'll post news items, tell you where to see us, and keep you in touch with some of our favorite bloggers.

Love coldfusion, love the coast then we have the ideal job for you in Brighton, UK.

You will report to me and work on a wide range of CF based web sites

What we're looking for is an enthusiastic, experienced, self motivated web developer. With an minimum of 2 years experience ideally with a background of working with coldfusion frameworks. The role will entail development as well as specifying technical specifications, testing and deployment and some documentation.

The basic skills we are looking for are

• ColdFusion 6+
• SQL Server
• Unit testing
• CF Frameworks (fusebox, coldspring, model-glue)
• Ajax (jQuery, Spry, Ext etc)

Any experience with server deployment & configuration, Subversion and ANT would be a big plus.

What we look for in a person:

• Someone looking to work on the latest technologies and push the web to it's limits.
• Good communication & writing skills
• A solid technical background
• Good problem solving ability
• Flexibility

This position is based in Brighton but once you've settled in we are flexible.

That's all there is to it - please contact me succorJobBlogPost [at] talkwebsolutions [dot] co.uk

All AGENCIES will be cursed! (we do love you really).

Yahoo have launched there streaming video service http://live.yahoo.com. With so much interest in Yahoo recently one might think that they would like to get things right. Sadly this launch has crashed already. While the service promises to be great they should have thought about how popular this service will be. They are offering a nice API with their service:

Within the API are two parts, the AJAX/Javascript side, for controlling the object embeds, and the REST API, used for determining what broadcasts and channels are available on the service.

As mashable say the service is in "pre-beta, not just the API" so maybe i'm judging them to soon. It will be interesting to see how things progress with this service - it's one to watch.

Just a quick note to say that us here at Talkwebsolutions.co.uk have helped launch a new site for a great contemporary art magazine http://www.artreview.com. If you're into art then this is a must see/'be part of' site. What you should be able to check out is the CF apps that we've integrated into the platform:

spotlight: a digg app for the arts world
art finder: a quick and easy artist and gallery directory
art news alerts: Google alerts for the arts world.

Let me know what you think - we have a few more great apps going into the platform over the next 3 weeks and more on the drawing board. This is a great time to be in social media!

As always the sites in beta so if you spot anything odd please let me know

So a while back I blogged about getting a mac, well it's been a long time coming but I just bought a mac book pro 17". I'm a web developer so my next question is what the heck do I need on this thing and where can I get it from? Suggestion please? Also any other tips would be great.

Oh I should mention it's running on version 10.5 although i'm running an update from the site (maybe 10.5.1???)

Woohoo <-- sorry I'm a little excited!

I thought i would just point out that Hal has been makeing a few blog posts recently on coldfusionCommunity.org. Click the following link to view them Hal Helms blogs on coldfusionCommunity.org

Whilst eating a very unhealthy bag of chips for my dinner I decided to check out youtube and stumbled over this:

Mr T rules!

I've just spent 20 minutes on the phone to Barclays trying to find out why I kept getting an "error code 02".

The reason for this apparently is because I've used the word 'Contract' in my payment reference - what the hell? You've got to be kidding me right. </rant>