Hello. As a developer at a fast growing, online marketing firm in Chicago (Evanston to be precise) I'd like to announce that we are looking specifically for Django developers. If you are gainfully employed but know of someone who may be interested, please pass this on. We are unable to offer telecommuting as an option but this may be an option in the future once you are familiar with the team.
Our tech dept. is currently a mid-sized team of 6 developers, 1 DBA, 2 QA-ers, and 3 project managers (i.e. still small enough that you will get a face cake for your birthday). Life is fast but finishes at 5 everyday, strictly no weekends (unless dollars are being lost, emergencies, etc), and we work formally, as in month-long Scrum [1] sprints, user stories, and have a symbiotic relationship to Trac (custom modules for ticket tasks, burndown charts, etc). You'll also find that we're constantly analyzing and refining the way we manage ourselves. Our company is http://www.leapfrogonline.com/ and we do the good kind of [*ahem* better kind of] marketing : we only get paid when people are happy ;) For the most part this means obtaining clients for cable internet providers or credit cards such as Discover by working with media properties such as Google, MSN. We have a more recent ecommerce venture and a plan to open up some REST services publicly. We also have a growing analytics dept. who is busy doing lots of math to help steer us in the right directions; we may be writing software for them. But, hey, it's all code at the end of the day so what this really means is you get to help us manage things like our 32 million row event log [2], cluster of buildbot [3] slaves, load-balanced public facing web applications, REST-ful feeds and services, et cetera. Most importantly we are *porting* several apps to Django and Ruby on Rails [4] and it is going smooth but we don't have enough hands :( Do you like to test? So do we. In fact, any new code we write *must* be tested. This doesn't mean we are TDD nazis or anything. I think innately we practice something more like BDD [5] though. Most of our apps are written using existing open source libraries, but members of our team work on open source projects such as: http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/ http://code.google.com/p/nose-watch/ http://testtools.python-hosting.com/ (and of course, some patches to django) If you're interested, please privately send me a resume and, if possible, Django code samples. thanks, Kumar .. [1]: http://www.controlchaos.com/about/ .. [2]: why, postgresql of course! .. [3]: http://buildbot.sourceforge.net/ .. [4]: don't ask .. [5]: http://behaviour-driven.org/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
