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We’re looking for someone with a broad range of WordPress and web development (PHP, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript) experience, comfortable working in a standard web hosting environment, and in particular someone with outstanding communication skills.

We welcome local Denver-area candidates to join us in our office or remote developers that have a quiet home office environment.

Providing great service is our number one priority, and we need someone to whom this is inherent. We have a responsibility to every affiliate plugin and theme developer who puts their trust in us and to the WordPress community as a whole.

See the job posting on the HelpCenter web site for more details and to apply. This position is open immediately and we hope to fill it within the next 30 days.

Disclaimer: (appropriately) includes some profanity.

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It appears that Webkit has implemented validation for a type="date" field without implementing matching UI for a date picker or error message to enforce the required date format.

Since the “I need this project done by” field on our project inquiry form does not need to be a valid date format (a response of “by Sept. 1″ or “in 3 weeks” is valid in our usage), the choice to use an input type="date" field was probably a poor choice in the first place. 20/20 hindsight.

Hopefully this will help others avoid losing too much time investigating this issue.

In the last six months I’ve used NetNewsWire on the Mac and iOS, Scoop on the webOS and Reeder on the iOS – with an occasional visit to Google Reader on the web.

I still get uncomfortable that so much of the internet relies on Google, but I can’t argue with the convenience in this case.

If I could only share one tip, it would be this: Take responsibility for your WordCamp experience.

Everything else I’m listing below can be summed up in that one piece of advice (and is true for just about any conference or meetup). It manifests itself in a variety of ways.

• If you aren’t enjoying/learning where you are, move. We try to cater to all attendees throughout the day, but not all sessions will interest everyone. There are normally multiple sessions going on at once, people hanging out in the halls, people at the Genius Bar or developer garages – if the session you’re in isn’t to your liking, take action and see what else is going on.
• Ask questions in sessions. Speakers love the opportunity to share things they know will be of value to their audience. They know they are doing this when they are addressing questions.
• Don’t be shy about approaching and talking to speakers. Most speakers I know really enjoy feedback, related discussions, etc. Plus, it gives them a nice ego boost.
• Aggressively seek out people you want to connect with. At a conference I often get more out of conversations at random times and places than I do out of the structured sessions. If there is someone you want to talk to, go find them – don’t regret not doing so afterward. The corollary to this is to be respectful if they are busy or for some reason aren’t interested in conversing with you.
• Find your own time for networking. Don’t rely on structured time to connect with people. Join a conversation between sessions, talk with people next to you. Chat up someone that asked a good question in a session.
• Lastly, Remember that this is a community event organized by community volunteers with the help of local sponsors. We try hard to get input from the attendees and structure the event accordingly. I can’t speak for other WordCamps, but I know that last year’s WordCamp Denver and this year’s WordCamp Boulder are just about break-even propositions for us. Please temper your praise and constructive feedback accordingly.

It’s been great to see how WordCamps have grown over the years and I’m very pleased to be able to help organize the Denver/Boulder editions. Keep up the community spirit and have a great time.

• Microsoft Kin is dead — Engadget – That’s got to be a record.
• Derek Powazek – Press the Magic Button – I’m pretty agressive about blocking people on Twitter too, for the same reason. (thanks Geof)

There are also micro-sponsor tickets available for those wanting to do a little extra for the community and participate in the speaker/sponsor dinner on 9th.

If you’ve already got your ticket, make sure to grab a badge as well.

We are setting up a Genius Bar at WordCamp this year, and I’m very pleased that members of our WordPress HelpCenter team will be there to help out. If you’ve got WordPress questions big or small, make sure to visit the Genius Bar.

A big thanks to our sponsors for the event as well – see the full list in the sidebar on the official site. As with ever WordCamp, the contributions of the sponsors are literally making the event happen.

This does not work, you get an “unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM” error. This is apparently Hebrew for “two colons”. In other words, PHP doesn’t like you trying to call a static method on a class when the classname is stored in a variable.

Here is the workaround:

Works like a champ.

You’ll get to work on a bunch of interesting and diverse projects. Some of our recent projects have included:

• Advanced WordPress websites, plugins, themes, integrations and products. We build a lot of stuff with WordPress.
• A site migration tool for importing legacy websites into WordPress multi-site (complete with testing routines).
• Facebook integration and platform development.
• A web service for processing gobs of data running on Amazon’s cloud. The system is comprised of 10 different individual components, all talking to each other’s web services.
• Customizable financial dashboards (web application).
• An integration into numerous web services to power a custom web application that provides a different kind of productized web analytics.

We have a casual, collaborative team environment. You can choose your OS and development tools (all of our systems are cross-platform or web based) and get to have a say in development approaches, policies, best practices, etc.

If these kinds of things sound interesting to you, we’d like to hear from you.

We also have two internship positions (developer and designer/front-end developer) available – if you want to learn about building with WordPress, Open Source, web standards and modern best practices, we can give you some great experience building things people actually use.

If you do need any help upgrading to WordPress 3.0, don’t hesitate to contact my WordPress HelpCenter team. You can call them directly at: (303) 395-1346 from 9am-8pm US/Eastern M-F or email anytime to help@wphelpcenter.com.