ColdFusion Position at Adobe

This just came through the RSS tubes.

Passing on this job notice from Adobe. It is a contract position with the possibility of converting to full time. We have an open contract position for a CF engineer that I was hoping you could post on your blogs. Here are the requirements per the hiring manager:

  • BS or advanced degree and 3+ years’ experience, or equivalent knowledge.
  • Experience in design and development of web applications with ColdFusion, Mach-ii, AJAX, JSON, XML
  • Worked with and applied current web client-side technologies – JavaScript, CSS, HTML, etc.
  • Experience working with highly trafficked, scalable web applications with product downloads
  • Experience with Adobe AIR applications
  • Knowledge of presentation, web, business and data access layers and their interactions
  • Experience with web services protocols such as REST, SOAP, XML/RPC.
  • Solid foundation in computer science fundamentals, object oriented, design techniques, + software engineering best practices
  • Experience in Scrum/Agile software development methodology

This position is for the group that works on the Adobe client download center section of Adobe.com Please send resumes to Kavitha Mattikalli kmattika@adobe.com

Source Ray Camden

First Gem Work

I’ve been in Rails a lot lately, like daily, and one of my favorite aspects of Rails dev is the ecosystem. Another post will detail my love for the entire ecosystem but this post is about gems and the community. Practically anything you want to do in Rails is probably done already. It is insane how detailed some of the gems are but you definitely have simple one’s too. Continue reading

Claim Chowder: “Maybe He’s High?” and “Is He Nuts?”

Gruber pondered whether Eric Schmidt “was high” and Matt Rosoff questioned whether Schmidt is “nuts” when he said:

By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded.

Actually…he was neither, at that time. ;)

The Google TV blog officially announced new hardware partners [source has list]:

We’ve also been working with our hardware partners to bring new Google TV-powered devices to consumers.

As an avid Google TV owner/user, I’m pleased to see a major advancement in the product.

PS – Welcome to the claim chowder list Gruber and Rosoff! I’m sure others could join you on this topic. ;-)