ArsDigita has all sorts of cool stuff. They have a free "university",
both an on-campus program and a distance learning program. Mostly what
they are using is their community-building software. It uses AOLserver
as a web server, Oracle or Postgres as a database, and tclsh as a
scripting tool. If you were to take the concepts and put them into
apache, mysql, and php or perl, and you have the skills for Linux Web
Mastery, ensuring you your black belt in Linux-foo.
They also have a one-day course with info and movies at
http://photo.net/teaching/one-day-web.html
I'm going through all the media and reading the books. It all is good
reference stuff, like a beefed-up tutorial.
--Mike
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> Remember ArsDigita? In the news recently for offering a free
> college education, soon to offer a free university or something.
> Their charity projects are funded by the success of arsdigita.com
> which is constantly hiring. They're big into open source development
> and "world-improvement" philosophy (I liked http://www.scorecard.org,
> one of their projects).
>
> Anyway, I contacted the guy in charge of hiring for tech jobs and
> he said they are big into opening remote offices if they can find
> enough qualified people in an area. They've got a series of
> tests/exercises someone can go through remotely assuming they have
> some home networking, system administration, code hacking experience.
> It's all on their website at www.arsdigita.com - I'm going to go
> through it myself for fun. Let me know if anyone else takes a stab
> at this and then I could write him back to see if he was serious.
> Evidently their salaries are up to six figures with stock options.
>
> Curt
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