Hiring full-time hybrid developer/systems person at profitable, growing startup in Austin
FeedMagnet <http://www.feedmagnet.com> is a web platform for brand marketers (Top Gear, GE, Verizon, Logitech, etc.) providing social/content aggregation and curation for websites and event screens. We're growing, profitable, over 3 years old, and based in Austin, TX (with a couple remote employees). We're looking to add a generalist/hybrid to our development & systems team. Someone who can master our Python/Django core technology stack and also our Ruby/Chef cloud automation system – working with other smart people to solve interesting problems, optimize and automate systems, and implement new technology solutions. We value aptitude over proficiency. The ability to learn a language or a tool and master it quickly is more valuable than rote knowledge up front. We also value clean code, self-motivation, and the ability to work well in a flat organization with minimal supervision. Here's the full job description on GitHub: Developer and Operations Engineer<https://jobs.github.com/positions/5808a940-3821-11e2-8dd9-b84311b57ac3> Luke Sneeringer <https://github.com/lukesneeringer?tab=activity> is the hiring manager. He's spoken the past couple years at PyCon<https://us.pycon.org/2012/speaker/profile/88/>. You can reach him and I both at jobs-t...@feedmagnet.com. - Jason Ford Founder, FeedMagnet -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/jr5ax4SAJ0QJ. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
Happy New Year – Django on display in Times Square!
Our app, FeedMagnet (built in Django!) gathers content from social networks in real-time, curate the feed, and then display it. All day today, FeedMagnet is powering the Verizon screen in Times Square (running on the giant MTV HD display) – showing real-time posts from Facebook, G+, and Twitter, plus photos from Instagram and a giant Foursquare avatar montage and checkin counter. It's pretty awesome. http://instagr.am/p/dPWfx/ If you happen to be in Times Square for the New Years party, tell the folks around you that big social media screen is powered by Django and Python! - Jason (founder of FeedMagnet) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
CheddarGetter module for Django/Python - easy recurring billing
We just released pychedder, an open source module for integrating CheddarGetter with Django and Python: http://www.feedmagnet.com/blog/cheddargetter-for-python-and-django/ Anyone who's built commercial web app knows that payment processing can be one of the toughest pieces to put in place - and it can distract you from working on the core functionality of your app. CheddarGetter is a web service that abstracts the entire process of managing credit cards, processing transactions on a recurring basis, and even more complex setups like free trials, setup fees, and overage charges. We're using CheddarGetter for FeedMagnet.com and we thought the Django community in general could benefit from the module we wrote to interact with it. More just just a Python wrapper for CheddarGetter, pycheddar gives you class objects that work a lot like Django models, making the whole experience of integrating with CheddarGetter just a little more awesome and Pythonic. We're a week or two away from putting pycheddar into production on FeedMagnet, but we felt like it was close enough that others could start using it. We also published it to PyPi so you can easy_install pycheddar and get the latest version (currently 0.9). Hope others can benefit from it! - Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
Re: FeedMagnet: New Django-powered website just launched
Thanks! My comparison of Django and Ruby on Rails was definitely more subjective than objective. Although I read several good articles that had more objective metrics to compare Ruby and Python speed, I did not run those kinds of tests myself. My approach was more about gathering the information that was already out there - both online and from professional contacts - parsing it, and formulating some high-level thoughts on the differences between the two so I could make a decision for our site. I can say that our Django implementation is significantly faster than the CakePHP prototype I had initially built. We attribute most of that to being able to easily run simultaneous threads in Python for pulling in content. Our infrastructure requirements are actually not that high right now. By using Python's built-in threading to gather content and CouchDB to quickly store and retrieve it, we're keeping resource requirements at a minimum. We do plan to upgrade to the cloud at some point, but for now we are on SliceHost, monitoring performance to determine when to upgrade. - Jason On Dec 17, 8:43 am, pabloi <pila...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jason, the site looks very nice. > > I also found your blog posting regarding Django vs Ruby very > interesting, if I may ask, did you make some metrics to determine how > faster Python can be over Ruby? > Also, this might be a lot to ask but ... what kind of infrastructure > do you use to support your site, I guess the site might required a lot > of resources to work. > > Congrats on the launching! > > - Pablo > > On Dec 17, 12:10 pm, Jason Ford <ja...@feedmagnet.com> wrote: > > > > > Let's see. We started on the Django version in mid-October...so right > > at 2 months from first code until now. Luke had used Django on a few > > projects before this one, but the past two months have been my > > introduction to Django. I really like it - especially compared with > > some of the PHP frameworks I had dabbled in previously. Not only was > > it quicker to build in Django, but I feel like our code is much more > > maintainable too. > > > - Jason > > > On Dec 17, 2:21 am, OkaMthembo <zebr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Look great, Jason. If i may ask, how long did it take from nought to > > > finish? > > > > Lloyd > > > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Jason Ford <ja...@feedmagnet.com> wrote: > > > > We just launched the public beta of FeedMagnet a few minutes ago. It > > > > is a Django-powered web app that helps business harness social media. > > > > It is essentially an aggregator that pulls in content from multiple > > > > social networks and lets you do things with it - like putting the > > > > incoming content back up on your own website. > > > > >http://www.feedmagnet.com > > > > > Our experience using Django to build the site has been fantastic. > > > > We're also using CouchDB to store all of the updates and images as > > > > they come in from Twitter, Flickr, Delicious, RSS feeds, and other > > > > sources. We're planning to release our custom CouchDB/Python > > > > integration code as an open source module soon. > > > > > Thanks to the Django community for the excellent framework, > > > > documentation, and user groups. We're glad to be a part of the > > > > community! > > > > > - Jason > > > > > -- > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > Groups > > > > "Django users" group. > > > > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@google > > > > groups.com> > > > > . > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > > > -- > > > Regards, > > > Sithembewena Lloyd Dubehttp://www.lloyddube.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
Re: FeedMagnet: New Django-powered website just launched
Let's see. We started on the Django version in mid-October...so right at 2 months from first code until now. Luke had used Django on a few projects before this one, but the past two months have been my introduction to Django. I really like it - especially compared with some of the PHP frameworks I had dabbled in previously. Not only was it quicker to build in Django, but I feel like our code is much more maintainable too. - Jason On Dec 17, 2:21 am, OkaMthembo <zebr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Look great, Jason. If i may ask, how long did it take from nought to finish? > > Lloyd > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Jason Ford <ja...@feedmagnet.com> wrote: > > We just launched the public beta of FeedMagnet a few minutes ago. It > > is a Django-powered web app that helps business harness social media. > > It is essentially an aggregator that pulls in content from multiple > > social networks and lets you do things with it - like putting the > > incoming content back up on your own website. > > >http://www.feedmagnet.com > > > Our experience using Django to build the site has been fantastic. > > We're also using CouchDB to store all of the updates and images as > > they come in from Twitter, Flickr, Delicious, RSS feeds, and other > > sources. We're planning to release our custom CouchDB/Python > > integration code as an open source module soon. > > > Thanks to the Django community for the excellent framework, > > documentation, and user groups. We're glad to be a part of the > > community! > > > - Jason > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Django users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@google > > groups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- > Regards, > Sithembewena Lloyd Dubehttp://www.lloyddube.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
FeedMagnet: New Django-powered website just launched
We just launched the public beta of FeedMagnet a few minutes ago. It is a Django-powered web app that helps business harness social media. It is essentially an aggregator that pulls in content from multiple social networks and lets you do things with it - like putting the incoming content back up on your own website. http://www.feedmagnet.com Our experience using Django to build the site has been fantastic. We're also using CouchDB to store all of the updates and images as they come in from Twitter, Flickr, Delicious, RSS feeds, and other sources. We're planning to release our custom CouchDB/Python integration code as an open source module soon. Thanks to the Django community for the excellent framework, documentation, and user groups. We're glad to be a part of the community! - Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
