This Friday the 27th of November 27dinner will be taking place in Cape Town at the Knead Bakery, Wembley Square.

Join in for the last 27 dinner of 2009 in Cape Town. An evening of inspiring talks and superb conversation with smart and talented web, mobile, media and marketing people.

The Talks

• Justin Hartman: Founder / CEO of Afrigator. Justin will be giving us some exiting news about Afrigator (South Africa’s largest blog aggregator)
• Raymond De Villiers, CEO of Wisdom Games: Raymond will be talking about Serious Play: Using computer games for corporate learning
• Dave Duarte: Founder of Huddlemind will MC

Remember that there is only 100 places available so head on over to 27dinner to book your place.

Kibo Media is looking for a Mid to Senior web developer to join their team full time.

The applicant’s daily task will be to develop websites and carry out monthly updates and enhancements to client websites and or databases.

Kibo Media is a dynamic web design and development company providing a full range of web services. Tey focus on building strong lasting relationships with their clients through delivering work in a timeous, efficient manner.

If you meet the below requirements, please email a short cover letter and CV to alicep@kibomedia.co.za in order to apply.

Requirements
• experience in web programming using CSS, HTML and PHP
• experience SEO
• experience in working with and developing in Content Management Systems and understanding what they are about (wordpress, joomla etc.). You will be our expert wordpress CMS person!
• capable of contributing to team, but self sufficient and proactive enough to manage own work
• capable of carrying out work from a brief to completion
• understand web application best practices and browser compatibility
• Client Relationship: Excellent management of relationships. Prompt response to email and / or other queries
• Understanding of “design” elements in order to ensure development meets design rquirements

Advantageous
• working with MySQL 5 databases advantage
• experience working on Linux

Personal Skills/Attributes
• Candidate must be able to interact and work with a dynamic and ambitious team
• Good communicator and team player
• Positive and enthusiastic attitude
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Can work with little supervision, pro-active and takes on responsibility for code developed
• Ability to work in a high pressure environment and meet agreed deadlines
• Entrepreneurial in terms of being able to see development opportunities
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills
• High level of attention to detail

Details

Province: Western Cape
Education level: Matric
Own transport required: Yes
City: Cape Town – Maitland
Type: Permanent
Job level: Mid / Senior

If you think you have what it takes then why not give it a go.

Amatomu a South African blog aggregator has been out of Alpha phase for two months now and still it is plagued with errors.

When Amatomu moved into Beta stage two months back you could have seen that the site has been improved with faster loading times, almost real time aggregation of blog posts just to name a few. Lately it has been a whole different story, with constant DB errors when visiting the site and even showing as logged in as ThoughtLeader who I am not.

Amatomu it’s time to step up and either fix your product or just take it of the market. I’m actually a fan of Amatomu as I like the layout of their site and the way they show whats hot currently in the blog sphere and rankings per category, but I’m getting really annoyed by the fact that the site is slow as hell when you try to access some features and aggregations that does not occur almost instantly but rather a few days after you posted your blog entry. Not to mention that I’m sometimes showing as logged in as another user.

A while back Christopher Mills owner of iMod launched a campaign to get bloggers to refrain from using Amatomu, I’m currently feeling the same vibe at the moment, maybe if all the bloggers just boycott Amatomu they will get their act together and start focusing on releasing a product that works. In the mean time if you are a sole user of Amatomu check out Afrigator, they are an example of how to run a aggregation service.