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On September 25, Authentic Jobs turned six (I’ve been a listing partner for almost five years). To celebrate that sixth birthday, this week you can save quite a bit when posting a job listing:

• Post a job on authenticjobs.com and get 50% off
• Post a job on uk.authenticjobs.com and pay just £1.00

But that’s not all. As part of the birthday celebration there is also a campaign to raise 600 000 Ethiopian Birr (≈ USD 35 000) for charity:water. The goal of the campaign is to give the people of Northern Ethiopia access to clean water. You’ll find more info about the campaign on the Authentic Jobs charity:water Campaign 2011 site.

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Posted in Job openings, Life.

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Recently I needed to free up some space on my Mac’s internal hard drive and decided to move my Virtualbox virtual machine disk images to an external drive.

At first I thought it was going to be as easy as just copying the .vdi files to the other drive and then pointing each Virtualbox machine to the new location of its corresponding .vdi file. Turned out it isn’t quite that easy.

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Posted in Virtual Machines.

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It’s more or less common practice these days to use real HTML lists when what you’re marking up makes logical sense as a list. If you don’t want it to look like a standard ordered or unordered list, that’s easy to fix with a bit of CSS. The underlying semantics will still be there for people using browsers without CSS support or screen readers.

But will it? The short answer is no, not always.

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Posted in Accessibility, CSS.

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One of the news in HTML5 is that links are now allowed to contain block level elements. In HTML 4, only inline elements are allowed.

Linking block level elements such as headings and paragraphs can be useful, but there are some things to be aware of in order to avoid reducing the usability and accessibility of such links to screen reader users.

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Posted in Accessibility, HTML 5.

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One problem with mobile web development is testing, which I mentioned a few months ago in a post about Opera Mobile emulator and Opera Mini simulator. Emulating or simulating a specific browser is definitely better than nothing, but what about entire mobile devices?

Many developers don’t have physical access to a whole lot of different mobile devices, and buying a load of phones and tablets just for browser checking can be hard to justify. But another option is using a simulator or an emulator for browser checking. It’s not exactly the same as using the real thing, but it beats not testing at all.

I’ve been using the iOS Simulator and the Android Emulator for this. Both are available for free and do the job.

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Posted in Browsers, Mobile Web, iOS.

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