Monthly Archives: September 2005

Vermont IT Jobs: PHP and Jr. Web Developers (2 jobs)

Jobs

Propeller Media Works

More details on their website: www.propelled.com

PHP/Web Developer

Propeller Media Works seeks candidates eager to join its experienced team of web designers and programmers. This is not a design position. Instead we seek a programmer with an eye for design to assist primarily in the development and ongoing integration of our proprietary PHP/MySQL based CMS and e-comm systems, B-B and B-C e-comm system integration, and custom web application development.

Jr. Developer

Propeller Media Works seeks exceptional candidates eager to join its experienced team of web designers and programmers. This is not a designer position, but the ideal candidate will have respect for design and at least 2 years of paid work experience producing websites. Must be solid in Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Flash, CSS, and have a strong understanding of the open source toolsets (PHP/MySQL). Bonus for SEO/SEM and Mac/PC hardware/software/network skillsets.

Don’t Forget: www.acehaid.org

Vista and projectors? NOT!

Just Rambling

Sam’s post reminded me that I meant to mention my big problem when I tried to show Vista and Glass to Vermont.NET on Monday night. It wouldn’t work with the projector. In fact, when I plugged the projector into my laptop, the resolution changed on the laptop and did not revert when I yanked the plug out. Luckily it was a smallish group and I finally gave up and said “gather round” and showed them some of the pretty features.

All of the rest I did on my XP box with a Virtual PC since I had way too many versions of VS2005 required to show Atlas demos and LINQ demos.

Don’t Forget: www.acehaid.org

Inside the Conference Bubble

Just Rambling

At the end of PDC, I realized that I was in a bubble all week. I had stopped fretting over the Katrina disaster which is hardly behind us. Not once did I phone my parents to say hi. I didn’t even send so much as a Hollywood postcard to my friend who was in the hospital. The only non-conference related contact I had with anyone was a few phone calls each day to my husband who had had a very scary and bloody hiking accident the day before I left for Los Angeles. I had no idea there was a hurricane in the Carolinas and completely forgotten about the rising cost of gas. This is the conference bubble. The world outside the conference and its focus just doesn’t exist. I was only a few miles from the ocean and did not visit it. Nor did I see the ocean when I was at TechEd in San Diego.

Does anyone else feel this way? It makes me feel guilty to forget the world for a while.

Don’t Forget: www.acehaid.org

XLINQ and XQuery

Just Rambling

I use XML plenty, but I am no XML guru. I can hack out XSLT and have used XQuery a handful of times. I definitely wondered how XLINQ would impact XQuery but do not have the background to make any comparison. Therefore, I was happy to see this post by Kent Tegels who does some pros & cons on XLINQ vs. XQuery. The big con for XLINQ is that it is proprietary. The big pro for XLINQ is that it is much more powerful. Says Kent: XLINQ wins by a technical knock-out before even getting into the ring. It really wasn’t going to be a fair fight though, was it? The underlying architecture of LINQ really fortify it the point where XQuery isn’t even in the same class. It’d be like a young Mohammed Ali boxing Superman.

Don’t Forget: www.acehaid.org