Ruby on Rails Developers- Strongmail , Redwood Shores, CA

Ruby on Rails Developers Dreaming about working on next generation products with a social media aspect where you get to truly innovate? Stop dreaming and start doing. As part of a collaborative team working on a 2 week Agile cycle, you’ll be responsible for development of new modules in our rapidly expanding product suite - products used by switched on brands to touch millions of end users.

StrongMail helps marketers monetize their online investments in email and social media, by enabling them to reach, engage and influence their target audience in these channels. We have exciting product development plans for 2010 and beyond. You can play a key role in these plans.

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Responsibilities Responsible for end-to-end development of StrongMail product components from technical design, through coding and testing Responsible for implementing enhancements and fixing bugs Contributes to the overall product architecture Contributes product ideas Education/Qualifications/Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field Knowledge/Skills (including technology)

2-20+ years of experience developing web based applications Solid experience with MVC frameworks Ruby on Rails experience Solid knowledge of relational databases (ideally MySQL) Solid knowledge of Linux Knowledge of web standards such as HTML, JavaScript, CSS Familiarity with agile development process Familiarity with test driven development process Understanding of the social media space Attributes/Behaviors

A passion for delivering innovative, high quality software Thrives in fast paced environment Energized by working with a high performance team Good communication and team collaboration skills

Please send your resume to michelle@strongmail.com

I was just about to joke about wanting to find someone outside of CERN with 20+ years of web app experience, but it looks like we’re getting close to it being an accurate number (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP#History). Now I’m feeling a latecomer - I didn’t start doing web dev until '96 :frowning:

Anyone here actually doing any commercial dev using http pre '94 (pre Netscape)?

Best Wishes,

Peter

December '94 was when I first went on line, but I didn't do any actual Web creation until '96.

Walter

1993, internal use within Sun Microsystems; January 28, 1994 was the initial launch of the public www.sun.com.

2-20+ years of experience developing web based applications

I was just about to joke about wanting to find someone outside of CERN with 20+ years of web app experience, but it looks like we’re getting close to it being an accurate number (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP#History). Now I’m feeling a latecomer - I didn’t start doing web dev until '96 :frowning:

Anyone here actually doing any commercial dev using http pre '94 (pre Netscape)?

Yes. And thank you for making me feel old :slight_smile:

I can still see the office where a colleague was showing how Netscape 0.9b was able to do transparent gifs… and I remember that being a major “oh wow” moment coming from lynx/mosaic…

-philip

The University of Victoria (Fine Arts Faculty) had a donation from Sun of their workstations back in 1992-3 and I was hired as a junior admin. Around 1993-4, part of my job was creating web pages on SunOS with HoTMetaL as an html editor and using NCSA Mosaic as the browser and the CERN httpd daemon. As cool as that was, I was totally blown away by playing netrek on the server at Carnegie Mellon University with people all over the continent.

In retrospect, it was pretty cool to have stumbled upon the early web as a naive young student. Since them, the changes and the speed of change is awe inspiring.

Wow - I'm in awe! I came across the web in '94 but didn't get commercial clients for building web apps until '96. I didn't think that was horrible, but clearly I'm a short timer at this web application development stuff with only 15 years experience :slight_smile:

Best Wishes, Peter