Wednesday, October 21, 2009

.net telecommute position available

I've recently been hired on at a major insurance company to lead a very small new "swat team" of designers and developers charged with re-developing a number of reporting and other employee-facing software systems. We are currently looking for another probably mid-level C#/.NET developer to join us.

There is a great opportunity here to make a big impact on the everyday lives of thousands of employees, all the while working from home, enjoying excellent benefits, and maintaining a fantastic life balance in general.

We will be building new systems using ASP.NET 3.5 and C#, all test-driven applications. The team will be provided with excellent and thorough specifications prior to development to make life easier (a promise I can make good on, because I will be overseeing the analysis and documentation process itself). This team may also be responsible for understanding, but not maintaining, the code of older systems written build on various legacy platforms.

Basic qualifications:
  • 3+ years experience developing web-based software in .NET
  • C# and ASP.NET 3.5
  • Very strong working knowledge of SQL, SQL Server, and ADO.NET
  • Ability to write and modify clean XHTML/CSS layouts
  • Experience with object-oriented JavaScript and/or jQuery
  • Experience with WCF is a plus
  • Experience developing in a test-driven environment is a plus
  • Experience developing in a Java, PHP, Perl, or other environment is a plus
Want to know more or apply? Send over a résumé and salary requirements to cblack@cblack.biz and let's chat!

Friday, October 2, 2009

I think that there's a few things that never change and a few things that never stop changing.

I don't think we go through "dry periods". I think we go through periods where the opportunities presented are more difficult to recognize and the opposition is too easy to recognize, and we don't give opposition a good enough fight.

I think.

Where is the fight in us supposed to come from, during these different times? Different places, or the same?