February 27, 2007

The Younger Generation

So I was sitting at my computer when my daughter walks up and asks - "What are you working on?" I told her I was reading about Web technology and happened to see a page on Wikipedia about HTTP. Since I knew she had seen Wikipedia before, I thought I'd impress her by saying that I had added a sentence to this page. So she says - "Oh yeah! I added a sentence to this page here." and she proceeded to take over the mouse and navigate to the page on Cubism where she showed me the sentence she added there - the second sentence at the top of the page. I was the one impressed! And she's not yet a teenager...

February 14, 2007

Job openings at OthersOnline

I've been busy and having a lot of fun cleaning up and building out different pieces of the OthersOnline system. So far I've fixed a few issues in the InternetExplorer toolbar, implemented the Firefox toolbar, implemented a widget for bloggers, built Web pages for profile search and browse, and variously tweaked and tuned the profile matching algorithms on the server. But now it's time to add a few more engineers. We have two job openings for an experienced software engineer and an experienced UI designer. Feel free to contact me at mike at othersonline dot com, or forward this to someone that may be interested.

Senior User Interface Designer
As a Web applications developer with OthersOnline you will define and create the user experience for all our applications that results in a highly social and interactive community of online users.
You will be responsible for operational support as well as prototyping features and brainstorming ideas. You will design, document and implement usable, enjoyable and engaging features using DHTML, Javascript, CSS, XML and Ajax and work within a Linux and Java based server environment. Candidates must be creative, flexible, self-directed, and understand how to design and write elegant, responsive and maintainable user interfaces.

Senior Software Engineer
As a software engineer with OthersOnline, you will create innovative algorithms and data services to dramatically improve search result relevance and create highly scalable, reliable Web services that extend the reach of our platform.

You will be responsible for operational support as well as brainstorming features and ideas. You will design, document and implement scalable, flexible features using Java, XML, SQL and HTTP in a Linux and Oracle environment. The ability to document technical approaches completely, correctly and concisely is required. Candidates must be creative, flexible, self-directed, and understand how to design and write high-performance, reliable and maintainable code and data models.