Comments | winterborne: job posting

winterborne

job posting

Jul 21, 2006 11:53

There's a company that's looking likely to open up a new office next to us over here at MASSMoCA. The guy who runs it is a fellow Williams alum, and was directed to me as somebody who might be able to help him make a technical hire. I have some ideas for him, but shgb suggested I also post the position here, which seems like a good idea ( Read more... )

Comments 6

cybersattva July 21 2006, 17:08:09 UTC

Energy management devices, eh? Sounds interesting, good luck to him.

phaedrusdeinus July 21 2006, 17:45:38 UTC

What platform/language is he looking to use, or is he open to suggestions?

cybersattva July 21 2006, 17:53:54 UTC

Out of curiosity, what did you have in mind? Web-based XML transaction processing immediately makes me think of J2EE, but of course you have to be able to power the beast. :)

phaedrusdeinus July 21 2006, 18:25:59 UTC

Well, Perl built the web, and XML (and even xpath and xquery) libraries are available for every language under the sun. And for a small team, Java can be a bit much.

I don't have any specific suggestions (except "use what your devs are familiar with"), just wondering if tech was set or open to change.

winterborne July 21 2006, 19:28:09 UTC

Not totally clear, but my sense is that whoever comes in will have full control over what is used. Once the serial communications come into play, it means being able to talk Modbus and/or DNP3; there are open source Modbus Java libraries out there, and I suspect one can find the same in Perl.

He's really looking for a single developer to do and be everything, and likely uninterested in the details of how it will get done.

the_star_fish July 22 2006, 04:14:32 UTC

Sigh.

If he's looking for any clerical/office help, do think of me, would you? Tell him I'll bring in cookies every Friday. Hell, every day.

[Will bake for work.]