Love that WebGL is getting attention. Native browser support is gorgeous and becoming more available as people continue to upgrade. We at Social Tables (socialtables.com) been using it with three.js to do real-time rendering of floor plans and events!
Nobody's stopping you from installing Git alongside Mercurial; even if you're not going to use it on a day to day basis, things like sublime text themes and whatnots are easily installed with a git clone.
Social Tables, a DC-based, venture-backed startup is looking for an experienced Engineer to join our growing team. We’re rendering dust templates through our Node backend and writing frontend SVG and HTML5. The ideal candidate...
- Has at least 5 years software architecture experience.
- Holds a computer science, computer engineering, or comparable degree.
- Loves building beautiful, well-designed products.
- Enjoys teamwork and realize its a competitive advantage.
- Lives startups and be excited by the higher reward they may bring.
- Thrives in environments that foster entrepreneurship and personal growth.
About our software
Social Tables is changing the way events are planned and attended. Our software platform helps event and meeting professionals design and manage their events. It has social features that allow their guests to interact beforehand or afterwards. It has been used to add 80,000 guests for over 2,000 events and has been featured in over 40 publications.
About us
We are a team of 5 working out of DC's first tech accelerator, The Fort, two blocks away from the White House. Our advisors include some of the most recognized pros in the industry and we're backed by top-notch angels from the Mid-Atlantic.
How to Apply:
We're serious about compensation: salary and equity commensurate with experience. Shoot me a note (dan@socialtables.com), a note with a couple lines about yourself and your LinkedIn page so we can get the conversation started. Thanks!
- Custom wrapper around MySQLi, which doesn't support parametrized queries
- No separation of Model, View and Controller (in 10 lines, there's SQL, HTML, JS, PHP and if you get lucky, PHP generating JS or piecing together HTML)
- Their idea of IRC integration is to write a bot in PHP, where different pages send it raw IRC commands to execute
- is_numeric used for most SQL injection checks
- User information stored in two tables (users_main, users_info), for no apparent reason
- About 1/3 of the code is in a file named script_start.php, which defines a mess of global variables and functions
- They store PHP-serialized data in MySQL TEXT fields
- They store pipe-separated data in MySQL TEXT fields
once upon a time, I thought it might be fun to hack on the gazelle project and give back to the community. so I grabbed the source from svn, opened one file, and promptly rm -fr'd.
I have nothing against the UX of gazelle, but the code is very, very bad PHP
And this is one of the few events since then that are capable of exciting as much wonder and curiosity. I wasn't alive during the Apollo program but this probably brings me close to the sheer jaw dropping awe I would've experienced had I enjoyed the opportunity to watch the moon landings on tv.
