Please post on the job forum! On Dec 10, 2007 9:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Etsy is an online marketplace for buying and selling all things > handmade: clothing, music, furniture, > software, jewelry, robots. We launched on June 18, 2005, and ever > since then have been empowering our > users to make a living doing what they love most. > > Just a few months ago, we found a few amazingly talented ninjas and > even a few swarthy pirates. The team is doing wonderfully, and we're > hoping to add a few more adventure-loving souls to our ranks. You'll > be using python, javascript and other technologies to whip up > innovative web applications in many challenging and interesting > domains: social and community, ecommerce, search, and even software > development. > > We're also in the process of redesigning and developing our web stack > to allow us to scale into outer space > while still providing a fun and productive programming environment. > You'll likely end up working on our: in-house orm, customized cherrypy > environment, jinja templates, django-like form processing library, > lucene integration, twisted-based communications protocol, or kick-ass > high-performance memcached library. > > Required: > * 5+ years of web development experience > * 3+ years of writing production-level code with a dynamic language > (python, ruby, lisp, smalltalk, > > OO javascript, etc) > * Strong OOP skills > * Understanding of dynamic language idioms and patterns > * Ability and willingness to pick up other languages and technologies > > Desired: > * Ability to write python code idiomatically > * Lives in New York City > * Experience with javascript > * Experience with java, postgresql and/or php > > Neat: > * Plays guitar hero > > > Challenge: > A valid response will be either a solution to the problem below, or a > link to some code of which you > are particularly proud. > > Problem: In the dynamic language of your choice, write a short program > that will: > 1. define a list of the following user ids 42346, 77290, 729 (you can > hardcode these, but it should > still work with more or less ids) > 2. retrieve an xml document related to each user at this url "http:// > api.etsy.com/feeds/xml_user_details.php?id=" > 3. retrieve the data contained in the city element from each xml > document > 4. keep a running total of how many users are found in each city > 5. display the total count of users living in each city > > You can assume user ids are valid and that the url is available. The > output should look something > like: > > Charlotte: 1 > New York: 2 > > You can find out more about etsy at http://www.etsy.com or > http://blog.etsy.com/jobs/index.html > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://search.goldwatches.com/?Search=Movado+Watches http://www.jewelerslounge.com http://www.goldwatches.com
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