The mashup generation

At Riff Raff, we're looking to hire an experienced PHP web developer to join our Newcastle web design team, and we've noticed a pattern emerging amongst this latest generation of developers in our region that we find quite concerning; Very few of them seem to have the capability to build anything from scratch.

Web design & development jobs in the North East

We're looking for a PHP Developer, User Experience Designer and Technical Project Manager to join our growing interactive team, designing and developing scalable websites and web applications for a range of clients across the UK, covering everything from bespoke E-commerce and Content Management Solutions to Social Networking and On-demand TV Platforms across desktop, set-top and mobile devices.

Gowalla checkin API for developers

The cupboard-dwelling nerd in me was genuinely excited to read about location-based social networking platform Gowalla making their checkin API available to third party developers using OAuth.

I found this particularly encouraging, since it significantly increases Gowalla's chances of gaining traction in the market, given Facebook's plans to add location-based services to its feature-set a couple of months ago. This is extremely important, if we are to avoid the space being monopolised by a single leviathan platform.