From julie at sdhrconsulting.com Tue Jul 1 15:42:33 2008 From: julie at sdhrconsulting.com (Julie Suttles) Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 15:42:33 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [San-Diego-pm] Chumby Hiring Software Developer (Perl, PHP, MySQL) Server Side Message-ID: <715980.28206.qm@web506.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Chumby Industries Inc. www.chumby.com is a fast growing company that is developing next-generation, versatile, low-cost, wireless (WiFi), Internet-connected devices, that can look like a clock radio but are way more flexible and fun. With a Chumby, you can keep abreast of traffic and weather in your hometown, breaking news headlines, stock quotes, and video feeds. It can also play streaming music, display photos and so much more. We currently have a unique opportunity for a highly motivated Software Developer- Server Side to play a critical role in developing our hosted services platform. This is your chance to be part of a core team, currently working on a new and exciting launch. Primary responsibility is the design and implementation of the server-side applications. If you have the following skills and want to be part of a fast-growing, exciting, start-up company that is getting ready to revolutionize the WiFi world, we want to hear from you. Job Description: ** Manage, develop, integrate and implement related application components, including front-end development and server-side integration ** Collaborate with the development team on our hosted services and system architecture and priorities; ** Design, develop, debug and maintain a wide-variety of server-side applications for a growing user base ** Serve as technical lead on server projects ** Devise how server-side software projects will be implemented. ** Assist in gathering and analyzing business and functional requirements, and translate requirements into technical specifications for robust, scalable, supportable solutions that work well within the overall system architecture of a 24x7 production system ** Serve as a key technical resource in the full development cycle, end-to-end, from conception, design, implementation and testing to documentation, delivery and maintenance ** Recommend changes in development, maintenance and system standards ** Develop significant new features for server side applications and support maintenance releases ** Research, track and understand new technologies to provide technical input in developing service applications and analyzing requirements; Requirements: ** At least 4 years server side development experience in an E-Commerce, environment ** Programming experience in a Linux, Unix environment using scalable, high capacity, content management systems ** Familiarity with Activerecord associations ** Familiarity with Ruby development ** Java and J2EE experience is a plus ** Technical expertise in php, perl, ruby on rails, MySql, MP3, Audio, Video, Codecs ** Knowledge of common Internet protocols (HTTP, FTP, HTTPS) required ** Experience creating design patterns ** Web services (particularly REST) ** SQL and MYSQL optimization ** Standards based HTML/CSS ** Proficient in Object Oriented Design/Development ** Knowledge of web applications scalability ** Comfortable in Agile Development methodologies ** Works well collaborating with team members ** Attention to detail ** Strong track record of delivering high quality, performance and scaleable software to production users in a timely fashion ** Ability to learn new technologies and procedures quickly ** BS in Computer Science or similar field of studies or equivalent work experience; ** Must have the ability to communicate and document ideas and designs effectively ** Demonstrated experience with a full development cycle on a shipped software product ** Experience developing mass-market commercial software is a plus ** Excellent written and verbal communication skills ** A strong team contributor able to help devise solutions and write software with others ** A strong individual contributor able to see a project to completion without much oversight and in a way that limits the risk of problems ** Ability to help solve a wide-variety of technically challenging problems as part of creating original products Chumby Industries Inc. offers competitive salary, stock options, benefits, 401k, vacation and the ability to work in a creative, smart, team environment with cutting edge tools and technology while revolutionizing the WiFi world. Interested candidates, send your resumes to: julie at sdhrconsulting.com or jsuttles at chumby.com Location is Carmel Valley, CA Thanks, Julie Suttles San Diego Human Resources Consulting Inc. www.sdhrconsulting.com 7040 Avenida Encinas Suite 104-41 Carlsbad, CA 92011 760-438-8046 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chris at chrisgrau.com Wed Jul 2 09:09:20 2008 From: chris at chrisgrau.com (Chris Grau) Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 09:09:20 -0700 Subject: [San-Diego-pm] Chumby Hiring Software Developer (Perl, PHP, MySQL) Server Side In-Reply-To: <715980.28206.qm@web506.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <715980.28206.qm@web506.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20080702160920.GH25657@chrisgrau.com> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:42:33PM -0700, Julie Suttles wrote: [something I didn't read] Other user group lists have rules about recruiters posting directly to the list. Not that they can't, per se, they just have to post it via a real member. Is that something we want to do or not? I guess our list is low traffic enough that it doesn't really matter very much. And I have a working delete key. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: From menolly at mib.org Wed Jul 2 10:26:15 2008 From: menolly at mib.org (Menolly) Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 10:26:15 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [San-Diego-pm] Chumby Hiring Software Developer (Perl, PHP, MySQL) Server Side In-Reply-To: <20080702160920.GH25657@chrisgrau.com> References: <715980.28206.qm@web506.biz.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20080702160920.GH25657@chrisgrau.com> Message-ID: On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Chris Grau wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:42:33PM -0700, Julie Suttles wrote: > [something I didn't read] > > Other user group lists have rules about recruiters posting directly to > the list. Not that they can't, per se, they just have to post it via a > real member. Is that something we want to do or not? I guess our list > is low traffic enough that it doesn't really matter very much. And I > have a working delete key. > It's a legitimate local company, and I've worked with the recruiter before, though I didn't accept the position she wanted me for. Unless job postings get spammy, I'd let it go. -- menolly at mib.org http://www.livejournal.com/~nolly/ On that day, many will say to me, "Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?" And then will I declare to them, "I never knew you; depart from me you evildoers." -- Matt 7:20-23, RSV From rkleeman at energoncube.net Tue Jul 8 10:00:04 2008 From: rkleeman at energoncube.net (Bob Kleemann) Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 10:00:04 -0700 Subject: [San-Diego-pm] C++ Programmer sought Message-ID: <20080708170004.GB1243@energoncube.net> This isn't an exact fit for our group, but if anyone is aware of someone looking for a OO C++ position, please pass this along. If you're interested in this position, please contact David Cook directly. ----- Forwarded message from "Cook, David L." ----- Good morning Bob, My name is David Cook and I am a Recruiter with VOLT Technical Resources. I have a client that is aggressively seeking software developers with a Object Oriented background with C++ on a UNIX/LINUX OS with skills in graphics and TCP/IP highly desired. This a contract position that is local to the San Diego metro area and can last 6 months to 2 years. My office is Texas so as you can imagine, I have 0 connections. Your group seems to most closely reflect the skills my client is asking for so I thought I would contact you. My complete contact information is below; if you can refer anyone or point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Regards David Cook Sr. Technical Recruiter Volt Technical Resources 3575 Lone Star Circle, Ste 424 | Ft. Worth, TX 76177 dlcook at volt.com | t: 817-490-1500 | c: 972-533-9500 | f: 817-491-4160 | tf: 877-858-8658 "Volt is consistently rated a top tier leader in IT staffing by industry analysts." ----- End forwarded message ----- From chris at chrisgrau.com Thu Jul 17 15:32:26 2008 From: chris at chrisgrau.com (Chris Grau) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:32:26 -0700 Subject: [San-Diego-pm] Meeting Recap Message-ID: <20080717223226.GB25657@chrisgrau.com> In the spirit of better late than never, here is the recap from the June meeting. I'd like to note that I did get this out before the July meeting. Enjoy! =head1 NAME SanDiego::Meeting::Social - social gathering of the San Diego Perl Mongers =head1 DATE Thursday, 19 June 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 =head1 DESCRIPTION This is a simple meeting recap, conveniently written in pod so everyone can read it in whatever format they prefer. If you lack an appropriate formatter, well, you can always write one. As an added bonus, if you're using a decent MUA *cough*Mutt*cough*, a formatter is only a few keystrokes away: macro pager ,pd "pod2text" =head1 ATTENDEES In order of appearance (I think). =over =item Bob =item Chris =item George Unfortunately, had to leave early to pick up his son from a calculus class. We all hope he's receiving good marks. =item Jonathan Joining us again from as far away as Irvine. Perhaps our most dedicated Monger. =item Manny =item Al =item Jason A first-time Monger. He is a systems engineer by trade. His Perl code consists mostly of short get-things-done scripts or one-off hacks - they work and are quickly forgotten. =item Cathy =back =head1 TOPICS =head2 Batting for the Other Team Chris started off the meeting by embarassingly admitting that he had coded in Python. In fact, his first foray into Python was to create Python bindings for a C library on a Solaris 8 system. It was all for a good cause, though, as he was proving that it was not Perl that was the issue with the library. =head2 Hot or Not? Manny complained that his office is either too hot or too cold. Seriously, it's never just right. The two bears in the neighboring office can never decide on an appropriate temperature. The third, often hailed as being "just right," is on sabbatical. =head2 Perl101.org: Lessons in Design Jonathan pointed out that the perl101.org is "horrible." He was heard exclaiming, "it's the way programmers build sites!" He has a valid point. It's not useful unless the user is already somewhat familiar enough with Perl that the site starts to lose usefulness. It is, however, an open effort. Patches welcome. =head2 Plone in My Ass Manny has all sorts of problems plaguing him at his place of employment. If it's not data that actively thwarts his attempts to reported on it, it's the irritating need to parse arbitrary e-mail from procmail(1), or--worse yet--an intense desire to be rid of Plone. Speaking of irritating systems, Al wanted everyone to know that to gain access to .NET "logs" in IIS, the only way to do that is to attach to the running IIS process with the Visual Studio debugger. =head2 Tags, Branches and Syncs, Oh My The soon-to-be classic discussion on the relative merits of CVS versus Subversion was brought up once again. Chris's pet peeve when it comes to Subversion is the complete lack of true tags. Al agreed, noting that he used to have a nice Perl (of course) script to publish content based on CVS repository tags; unfortunately, the same can't be done in Subversion. In resopnse to some questions about team coordination, issue tracking, and offline repository commits, Al brought up Trac (L) and git2p4, which works with Perforce in a similar way as SVK works with Subversion. =head2 Will Code for Dew Bob is still in search of honest (or not-so-honest) employ. Al has a new job, too. Also, important safety tip of the month: Don't ever work for a hosting company. Jonathan related some experiences he's had acquiring side-word on web sites such as oDesk. It's more difficult than it needs to be. People tend to have very unrealistic expectations, from wanting to pay less than minimum wage for non-trivial projects, to continuously extending the scope of the original request. =head2 Flex Time and the Modern Office Drone A quick poll was conducted. When does everyone arrive at work? There was a fairly wide range of answers, some more sane than others. What kind of self-respecting Perl hacker shows up at 06:30? Don't ask Manny when he arrives. He often stretches the definition of "morning." (Hey, it's morning somewhere, right?) =head2 How to Run Productive Meetings, for Dummies There was a general agreement that meetings suck. In fact, more meetings should be held on IRC. It works for a number of Open Source projects, why not multi-billion dollar companies? =head2 Perl is Dead; Long Live Perl Sadly, the Orange County, CA Perl Mongers is a dormant group, which is why we are graced with Jonathan's presence every month. The London, UK group is hot, though. =head2 Free Bread Near closing, the manager for Panera Bread circled the store, handing out free baguettes. They were quite tasty. =head2 If it Was Hard to Write, it Should Be Hard to Read Manny pointed out that he believes Chris is such a faithful follower of documentation as a way of justifying the obfuscated code he so regularly writes. =head2 My Distro Can Beat Up Your Distro To end the night with a bang, Cathy started the requisite Linux distribution religious flame war. =cut -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: From rkleeman at energoncube.net Thu Jul 17 13:12:02 2008 From: rkleeman at energoncube.net (Bob Kleemann) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:12:02 -0700 Subject: [San-Diego-pm] Meeting tonight! Message-ID: <20080717201202.GA21949@energoncube.net> Hey Mongers, Just a reminder that our normal monthly meeting is occuring tonight! We're meeting at the same (bat) time, at the same (bat) place, 7PM at the Panera Bread on Mira Mesa Blvd. I look forward to seeing you all there. From chris at chrisgrau.com Fri Jul 18 08:22:20 2008 From: chris at chrisgrau.com (Chris Grau) Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:22:20 -0700 Subject: [San-Diego-pm] Meeting Recap Message-ID: <20080718152220.GC25657@chrisgrau.com> =head1 NAME SanDiego::Meeting::Social - social gathering of the San Diego Perl Mongers =head1 DATE Thursday, 17 July 2008, 19:00 - 21:00 =head1 LOCATION Panera Bread, Mira Mesa, Calif., USA =head1 DESCRIPTION This is a simple meeting recap, conveniently written in pod so everyone can read it in whatever format they prefer. If you lack an appropriate formatter, well, you can always write one. As an added bonus, if you're using a decent MUA *cough*Mutt*cough*, a formatter is only a few keystrokes away: macro pager ,pd "pod2text" =head1 ATTENDEES In order of appearance. =over =item * Bob =item * George Arrived early, but once again also had to leave early to pick up his son from a calculus class. =item * Chris =item * Anna A first time Monger. She is currently taking a Perl class at Coleman College. She found out about our meetings on our web site, and wanted to come by and hang out. =item * John Brought his two sons, but it's difficult to discern their level of Perl interest. =item * Brad Another first time Monger at the meeting, however he has recently started hanging out with us in the IRC channel (#SanDiego.pm on Freenode). He is a systems administrator at UCSD, currently learning Perl on his own. His previous experience has been with shell scripting, so he's broadening his horizons and filling his tool box. =item * Brian =back Attendance at the July meeting was lower than normal. Perhaps even Perl Mongers relax during the summer months. However, the failure of the mailing list server to promptly deliver a meeting reminder may also have something to do with it. =head1 TOPICS There wasn't a lot of Perl talk at the July meeting. Everyone seemed pretty well spent. The meeting was a pleasant social gathering between familiar Mongers and new. =head2 Gainful Employment Bob is finally gainfully employed. The folks at Chumby will now benefit from his programming skills. What will he be programming in? Ruby! Hey, at least it's not Python. Perhaps Bob will start attending the meetings of the local Ruby Brigade[1]. Chris would like to hire a couple of minions to do his evil Perl-related bidding. Finding someone who both knows Perl and is willing to obey him is proving difficult. =head2 There's More Than One Way to Do Your Homework Anna spent the majority of the meeting working on one of her Perl class assignments. It took us back to the days when programs were simple and not so over-engineered. She, like any good student, had questions, which we were happy to answer. We look forward to her presence on the list and possibly the IRC channel. =head2 When Web 2.0 Goes Bad It was noted by Brad that, apparently, Wikipedia will begin moderating - that is "checking over" - articles. Gone are the days when any high school drop out could exercise their misinformed right of free speech against people they've probably never heard of[2]. =head2 Those Perl Guys are Just a Bunch of Hackers Chris wrote a 20 line Perl script to fool some Very Expensive Software into accepting invalid data. Concerns about the DMCA were raised, but no copy protection was circumvented in the exercise - just a bug. =head2 There's a Perl in My Windows Brian spent part of the meeting rebuilding his Camelbox[3] project. =head2 Shameless Plug Chris will be attending OSCON 2008 the week of 21 July through 25 July. He will attempt to blog[4] about anything interesting (or not so interesting) that happens while there. Feel free to recommend any sessions[5] he should attend. =head1 NEXT MEETING Thursday, 21 August 2008, 19:00 - 21:00. Panera Bread, Mira Mesa, Calif., USA. =head1 REFERENCES =over =item 1 L =item 2 L =item 3 L =item 4 L =item 5 L =back =cut -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: From rkleeman at energoncube.net Fri Jul 18 09:41:02 2008 From: rkleeman at energoncube.net (Bob Kleemann) Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:41:02 -0700 Subject: [San-Diego-pm] Perl Position (fwd) Message-ID: <20080718164102.GA30564@energoncube.net> Hey Folks, here's a possible job opportunity. If you're interested, please contact John Gruenwald directly. ----- Forwarded message from John Gruenwald ----- Web Development (Perl) A growing company located in Sorrento Valley seeks a Web Developer (Perl). My client is focused on providing comprehensive backoffice services to record labels, publishers and other music rightsholders. These services allow its customers the freedom to pursue new revenue streams by providing the back-end support required to manage multiple and inconsistent data sources and accurately compensate artists, publishers and songwriters. The Perl Developer will report to the CTO and become a key developer within a talented engineering team (LAMP). Primary responsibilities include ongoing development and support of the company's flagship products as well as development of future products. Experience, knowledge and skills; . 3 + years experience building and shipping commercial web applications . 3 + years of experience with Perl, Apache, Linux, and MySQL . Strong working knowledge of XML, XHTML, CSS, and Javascript . Bachelors degree in Computer Science or other technical degree If interested in learning more about this career opportunity please email your resume/CV to John Gruenwald at john_g at ihireassociates.com. If additional, John can be reached at 619-564-4383. John Gruenwald Sr Technical Recruiter 619.564.4383 office 619.251.0600 cell 619.564.4405 fax www.ihireassociates.com "Recruiting solutions for startups, software and storage companies!" ----- End forwarded message ----- From chris at chrisgrau.com Fri Jul 18 10:08:22 2008 From: chris at chrisgrau.com (Chris Grau) Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:08:22 -0700 Subject: [San-Diego-pm] Meeting tonight! In-Reply-To: <20080717201202.GA21949@energoncube.net> References: <20080717201202.GA21949@energoncube.net> Message-ID: <20080718170822.GD25657@chrisgrau.com> Unfortunately, the list's mail server was having trouble yesterday. The meeting was last night (Thursday) not tonight (Friday). Please don't show up tonight. But if you do, enjoy some Perl talk. :) On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:12:02PM -0700, Bob Kleemann wrote: > Hey Mongers, > > Just a reminder that our normal monthly meeting is occuring tonight! > We're meeting at the same (bat) time, at the same (bat) place, 7PM at > the Panera Bread on Mira Mesa Blvd. > > I look forward to seeing you all there. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: