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Online developer at Spokane newspaper

onemoreryan — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:18:47 -0800

We've got a great web team here in Spokane, a newsroom that buys into an online future, and we're willing to rewrite the rules of doing journalism on the web. But right now we're stuck on a site running ASP, with a design to match. So we're moving to Django, leaving our old site behind and relaunching from scratch. Our focus is intensely local; we want to give people in our community not just the news, but places to explore what they're passionate about. We're going to build something great, and then we're going to keep building great things. And we want your help. About us - We work for a family-owned newspaper, running spokesmanreview.com, spokane7.com, and other sites devoted to local news and entertainment. - We're offering competitive salary and benefits. We'll also help you relocate to Spokane, an affordable city tucked into a beautiful corner of the Pacific Northwest. What you should have - HTML/CSS/XML/Javascript background. You know the drill. We've got a great multimedia team, so editing and production skills aren't what we're looking for. We want a coder who likes to build the tools that our newsroom and readers will use. - Understanding of database development. Everything we do has a database underneath. We need someone with a strong, user-focused feel for the design and development of data projects. - A record of solid web development. This developer will help us build spokesman.com from the ground up. We'll be running Ellington, so Python/Django experience is ideal. But if you've got a track record in Ruby or PHP and Django sounds interesting, let's talk. - People skills. Our web team sits right in the newsroom, and the relationships we have with reporters, editors and photographers are crucial to our site's success. This developer will be working with all types of people, with all levels of comfort with technology. If this sounds like you, send your resume and links to Ryan Pitts at ryanp@spokesman.com.

VGMix 3.0 - Javascript / HTML / CSS Wizard

jake — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:57:44 -0800

"yerfatma" recently posted a perfectly-worded listing seeking someone with experience in XHTML, CSS and JavaScript, with a strong opinion about their favorite JavaScript library and a love of browser consistency and attention to detail. I am looking for precisely the same type of person, but I'm paying. We are a well loved, self-funded hobbyist site where members submit and critique arrangements of video game music. I've spent the past three years watching volunteer after volunteer get caught up in school, crushed with day jobs, or simply unmotivated. We're almost a year late on our projected re-launch date, and the natives are restless. I'm willing to hire someone to help get the site launched this year to break the flake-out cycle. You'd be a hero to several thousand nerds. We're close, but we still need Javascript magic and an experienced hand on the markup (alongside the ongoing backend development). We have a complete visual design / theme, so we just need help writing Django templates and spicing them up with Javascript interactivity. The site will allow for custom theming so if you'd like to design your own, zen-garden style, we'd welcome it and I'd do something nice for you! Our team's culture is very friendly and informal - we've hacked various versions of the site together since 2001, and are close friends who hang out on IRC. We use Trac, SVN, and an email list for project management. I am myself a freelance musician so I am a friendly negotiator. If this sounds appealing to you, drop me a line and we'll talk.

Web/Interaction Designer/Developer for Online Game

metajack — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:38:32 -0800

Chesspark is hiring! We're a small distributed company building an online chess game service on top of technology like XMPP/Jabber, AJAX, Python, and Django. Most of the company is currently focused on improving the backend and the game clients, and we're looking to add someone to the team to focus on making the website better and more full featured and who has a keen eye for design. Things we're looking for: * excellent design skills * excellent communication skills * self-motivated * experience writing HTML/CSS Bonus points for: * Python or Django experience * Javascript chops You'd be working from home, but we get everyone together every few months face to face in the same place. If you're interested, please contact me at jack@chesspark.com. Include your resume and/or some pointers to things you done. You can also reach me inside Chesspark pretty much any time.

Web/Interaction Designer/Developer for Online Game

metajack — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:46:06 -0800

Chesspark is hiring! We're a small distributed company building an online chess game service on top of technology like XMPP/Jabber, AJAX, Python, and Django. Most of the company is currently focused on improving the backend and the game clients, and we're looking add someone to the team to focus on making the website better and more full featured and who has a keen eye for design. Things we're looking for: * excellent design skills * excellent communication skills * self-motivated * experience writing HTML/CSS Bonus points for: * Python or Django experience * Javascript chops You'd be working from home, but we get everyone together every few months face to face in the same place. If you're interested, please contact me at jack@chesspark.com. Include your resume and/or some pointers to things you done. You can also reach me in game pretty much any time.

Linux Sysadmin

jacobian — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:38:07 -0800

Want to work for the most innovative news organization in the country, if not the world? Want to join a team of the best and brightest online media developers? Want to get paid to create award-winning web sites? Well, have I got the job for you: World Online is looking for a kick-ass systems administrator to join our team. About the job Until now, we've been a small enough team that we've not needed a dedicated sysadmin. We've grown, however, and we now need someone to look after our small (but growing) server room. Right now we've got around 15 servers running a variety of LAMP-style software. The core technologies are Ubuntu Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, Python, and Django. We want a sysadmin who can look after that stack and help us make it scream. The job also involves helping us develop and maintain backup systems, deployment scripts, and such. If everything goes according to plan, a big part of the job will be helping us build and roll out a hosted services environment. We want someone who will bring us strong opinions about the "right" way to do this. Our team is very small so we all pitch in where needed. "Not my job" is an unknown mentality here. About you We're looking for someone with experience administering LAMP-style systems. We're not too picky about particular skills -- we're expecting to train where needed. However, at a bare minimum we'd expect: * Experience administering a *nix. Bonus points for Ubuntu/Debian experience. * Understanding of how medium- to large-scale LAMP stacks work ("n-tier," if you want a buzzword). * Some skills in a scripting language (especially as used to write sysadmin-type scripts). Bonus points for Python, but Perl or even Bash is fine. * At least a basic understanding of administering databases. Bonus points for experience with PostgreSQL, and double-plus-extra points if you have PostgreSQL tuning skillz. MySQL experience will help you get the job, but will also make us mock you. More than anything, we're looking for someone with the ability to quickly learn new skills. If you can prove to us that you'll be able to learn what we need you to know, you're in. About the company World Online is the online division of the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper in Lawrence, KS. We're widely known as one of the most innovative new media operations in the news industry. Our sites -- lawrence.com (music), ljworld.com (news), and kusports.com (sports) -- have won many awards. We take great pleasure in overkill. We don't just cover little-league baseball games with a story or two in the Sunday paper; we treat T-ball like it's the World Series. We devote an entire print publication and Web site to youth sports, complete with cell-phone updates, weblogs and intensive team, league, and field databases. The company goes to this effort not only because it's successful (it is) but because they feel a strong commitment to the community. Unlike most other newspapers the company does not demand huge profit margins, but instead demands that we serve our community. The owner is fond of saying that if we take care of Lawrence, Lawrence will take care of us. The company is family-owned, and that family is incredibly kind, will know your name, say hello to you in the halls, and listen very carefully to your opinions. About the town Lawrence could be one of the coolest towns in America. If you take every negative stereotype of Kansas and turn them on their heads, you'd get Lawrence. We have an amazing local music scene (which lawrence.com exhaustively covers) and a downtown so vibrant it put a mall out of business. Lawrence's reputation as a "music town" reaches far and wide, and so we get great national acts that bypass most towns ten times Lawrence's size. If you're used to the insane cost of living in most big cities, Lawrence will blow your mind. You'll easily be able to afford a brand new apartment, or one within walking distance of downtown, or a turn-of-the-century house. Food's incredibly cheap, too; the best barbecue dinner of your life is less than ten bucks. We will cover reasonable moving expenses for out-of-town candidates. How to apply Drop an email to jacob@lawrence.com and tell me why we've absolutely got to hire you. I run a Microsoft-free ship, so plain text or HTML resumes only.

Full-time Python developer in NYC

cyrusdogstar — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:31:36 -0800

I'm looking for a full-time Python programmer to assist me in my work in the internal IT department of a medium-sized computer forensics firm in New York City. The primary skill is Python, with knowledge of the Django web programming framework a huge plus (if you don't know it now, you'll be learning it). PHP and shell scripting are also nice but not required. Linux server administration would also be useful; at least some exposure to Linux, with the ability and desire to learn more, is nigh-mandatory. Responsibilities for this position are twofold: one, doing maintenance work and secondary feature development work on a large internal intranet project, based on Django and (to a lesser extent) Plone. And two, being the lead developer on any number of smaller internal projects--our IT group supports a lab of forensic examiners and there are a lot of potential tools to be developed. This position has a large potential for skill-set growth in just about any area--we deal with hardware, development, sysadmin and net admin stuff up, and more besides. The benefits at this firm are excellent and the culture and employees are of similar caliber.