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Title: Senior Web Developer appointment
Post by: Daniel Hawton on October 16, 2017, 01:58:10 PM: I'm happy to announce the selection of Matt Bozwood-Davies as the VATUSA Senior Web Developer. Matt has a lot of good experience in web development and will continue to do many good things for VATUSA as he takes the reins of the web team.
Title: Re: Senior Web Developer appointment
Post by: Matthew Kosmoski on October 16, 2017, 02:00:58 PM: No Union Jack on the VATUSA website, okay? ;-)

Congrats!
Title: Re: Senior Web Developer appointment
Post by: Nicholas Watkins on October 16, 2017, 02:13:05 PM: Quote from: Matthew Kosmoski on October 16, 2017, 02:00:58 PM
No Union Jack on the VATUSA website, okay? ;-)

A quick lesser known fact about the "Union Flag", I picked up while touring England earlier this year:

The flag is only known as a Union Jack, when it is flown off the Jack-Staff of a British Ship. When it flies above a building, say Parliament, for example, it's known as the Union Flag or simply the National Flag.

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Anyway, Congrats Matt!
Title: Re: Senior Web Developer appointment
Post by: Jeffrey Sydenham on October 16, 2017, 02:56:42 PM: Congrats,

now you can go ahead and place Queen Elizabeth II head on to every image,
Title: Re: Senior Web Developer appointment
Post by: Sam Lambert on October 16, 2017, 03:57:59 PM: Congrats!
Title: Re: Senior Web Developer appointment
Post by: Camden Bruno on October 16, 2017, 04:07:25 PM: Congrats!
Title: Re: Senior Web Developer appointment
Post by: Mark Hubbert on October 16, 2017, 07:35:31 PM: Congratulations
Title: Re: Senior Web Developer appointment
Post by: John Bartlett on October 16, 2017, 09:44:54 PM: Congrats Matt. Best of luck to you sir!!
Title: Re: Senior Web Developer appointment
Post by: Matt Bozwood-Davies on October 17, 2017, 03:17:23 AM: Quote from: Nicholas Watkins on October 16, 2017, 02:13:05 PM
The flag is only known as a Union Jack, when it is flown off the Jack-Staff of a British Ship. When it flies above a building, say Parliament, for example, it's known as the Union Flag or simply the National Flag.

Actually, as of 2013, that is wrong. Graham Bartram, a British vexillologist who is the secretary-general for congresses of the FÃ©dÃ©ration internationale des associations vexillologiques and the chief vexillologist of the Flag Institute, when interviewed on the BBC Broadcasting House programme on 13 October 2013, stated that either name was perfectly valid whatever the purpose. He stated that the theory that the flag should only be referred to as "Union Jack" when flown at sea was wrong.

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I have no intention whatsoever to start placing the Union Jack, the St George's Cross, British currency notes on the website. *insert angelic emoji here*

Thanks all!
Title: Re: Senior Web Developer appointment
Post by: Brin Brody on October 17, 2017, 08:03:29 AM: Congrats! Try not to mess TOO much up. ;D
Title: Re: Senior Web Developer appointment
Post by: Matthew Kosmoski on October 17, 2017, 09:05:41 AM: Quote from: Matt Bozwood-Davies on October 17, 2017, 03:17:23 AM
I have no intention whatsoever to start placing the Union Jack, the St George's Cross, British currency notes on the website. *insert angelic emoji here*

Thanks all!

I am in favor of hiding these around, though!

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/417n21CyTXL._SS500_.jpg)

(mostly kidding)
Title: Re: Senior Web Developer appointment
Post by: Ian Fisher on October 17, 2017, 02:25:35 PM: Quote from: Daniel Hawton on October 16, 2017, 01:58:10 PM
I'm happy to announce the selection of Matt Bozwood-Davies as the VATUSA Senior Web Developer. Matt has a lot of good experience in web development and will continue to do many good things for VATUSA as he takes the reins of the web team.

Is that the Matt Davies who does the YouTube videos and the Twitch streams?
Title: Re: Senior Web Developer appointment
Post by: Nich Tompkins on October 21, 2017, 12:55:18 PM: Congratulations! :D
Title: Re: Senior Web Developer appointment
Post by: Cameron Bristol on October 23, 2017, 11:06:06 PM: I thought they were looking for qualified candidates.... ;)

Congrats Matt.