I've been a fan of Aqua Data Studio for years and it doesn't seem to get mentioned often. Cross platform and supports a myriad of dbs. http://www.aquafold.com/aquadatastudio.html
- SchoolStatus is a data framework for the K-12 education industry that combines a school district's disjointed data systems into one easily-accessed location. Our web-based interface allows educators to make data-driven decisions - regardless of previous technology experience. We also provide a mechanism for principals to deliver evaluation measures to teachers for real-time classroom feedback.
- Our backend engine provides mechanisms for automated data retrieval and sanitation, allowing the customer’s data to remain fresh with no interaction needed.
- Launched in January 2013, we’ve quickly become the data solution for roughly 50% of Mississippi public school districts and are currently migrating into other states. We’ve been revenue-driven and maintain profitability, which has made us attractive to potential funding sources and we’re currently considering our options.
Who are you?
- You are a talented, enthusiastic programmer that can’t wait to assist in the development of our backend engine and front-end interfaces. Our core technologies include:
* Ruby as primary language on backend. Due to lack of APIs on many third-party educational systems, data retrieval is often performed by various scraping methods. Experience with Mechanize, Nokogiri, Watir, and the likes are the icing on your cake.
* Ruby’s Padrino, a highly extensible framework built on Sinatra, is the glue connecting our backend to frontend.
* MongoDB, Redis, Postgresql, Elasticsearch, and Amazon Redshift provide our various data stores.
* Objective-C/UIKit powers our teacher evaluation instrument for iPad and you are totally okay with that.
* Angular.js on the frontend is something that makes you smile. Data visualizations created with Highcharts, D3, and Charts.js.
* By no means are we limited to the languages and technologies above. Solutions from other areas are always welcome - as long as they play nice with others (Flash.)
What will we give you?
- Competitive salary with full health, vision, and dental benefits.
- Retirement plan (comparable to the big guys that have way more meetings) with company match that will make sure your cohabitating hamsters are well-cared for in their old age.
- Flexible vacation structure (meaning just tell us you’re going out of town), including a company-provided condominium in Florida. Yes, we have a condo.
What will you give us?
- Loyalty to the company goals as a whole and a desire to serve the greater good.
- Flexibility to perform outside of your specific role when it’s needed, included talking with customers and attending trade shows from time to time.
- A good sense of humor - because nobody likes a boring job.
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Contact us with questions, resume/CV, or portfolio at hack@schoolstatus.com
I hate they left Airmail out of this article. I switched to it from Sparrow about a week ago and haven't been very pleased so far. It kinda feels like what Sparrow may have eventually become.
This may explain some strange occurrences I had yesterday.
Starting at 7am, I received an Apple ID password reset request every 4 hours and 19 minutes, ending last night at midnight.
This Apple ID is also the login for my personal developer account (several years old). My developers IDs used for work never received a password reset request.
I highly doubt the hackers plan was to get email addresses and try to brute force from there... just doesn't make sense.
If you search Google, people are all the time receiving password reset emails going back years, even repeated ones.
Email addresses are in the clear all the time, and I've never heard of them being considered sensitive before. You should assume everyone has your email address.
The Cuckoo's Egg is an amazing read. You get a very play-by-play account of the story, see an 80s honeypot in action, and if I remember correctly, read about interactions with the still running Chaos Computer Club.
I hate that the majority (I assume) here on HN didn't get to cut their teeth in the BBS era, you really missed out.
I see comments below mentioning "breaking into computer systems" -- you have to realize this was an era pre-Google, pre-www, in a lot of people's cases, pre-Usenet even. We were often limited to 60 minutes of access daily to a BBS, fighting busy signals to even get a node. Using every minute of that time to download textfiles, download cool stuff from the demo scene (sometimes with the pleasure of compiling them with TASM). We didn't have Linux boxes piled up in the back, to learn and explore Unix, many, like myself, had to fire up a war dialer, find a system, and use those crazy textfiles we read from our local BBS to work our way around. It wasn't, in most cases, for nefarious means -- it was our only option.
It was a great, great era. Hard to understand if you weren't there. Do yourself a favor and check out a few old boards that are still available through telnet. It's not the same, but you'll get an idea.
(I guess this response officially puts me in the "get off my lawn" club!)
I grew up in rural Texas about :45 minutes away from Houston. I ran a BSS for my neighborhood around the time of Duke Nukem 3D. We traded our custom maps over it, and coordinated our bamboo fort building plans for the summer so our parents didn't know where it was located.
We also got our hands on the anarchist cookbook and remember Hacker Manifesto being circulated everywhere. And a time when aliases matured into leetness like .oOo. Silicon Toad .oOo.
Then we got our first taste of mass internet with AOL, visual basic war proggies, and IRC scripts like teardrop.c and port attacks on Windows 95... and it's been downhill ever since. :)
Silicon Toad! Completely forget about that name. Lots of fun groups back then, actually writing interesting code instead of useless antics likes DDoS and website defacement.
Your comment made me think of Telehack [1] and Textfiles [2].
"Telehack is a simulation of a stylized arpanet/usenet, circa 1985-1990. It is a full multi-user simulation, including 25,000 hosts and BBS's the early net, thousands of files from the era, a collection of adventure and IF games, a working BASIC interpreter with a library of programs to run, simulated historical users, and more." [3]
I absolutely love textfiles.com -- their BBS documentary was amazing. This is the first time I've come across telehack, very cool. I look forward to playing with it more when I get some freetime.
I missed the BBS era and came in around the point where if you had a Windows machine you had to know some cmd magic to get certain things to work (dodgy shareware Doom floppies is the one I remember best), but it seems like it's a missing skill now.
