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At Pivotal Labs, one of the services we provide our clients is helping them interview and hire. Pivotal Labs and our clients place a strong emphasis on Agile development and its many aspects: Pair Programming, Test-Driven Development, rapid iterations, and frequent refactoring.
Gowalla, based in Austin, Texas, is looking for a Senior Android Developer. The full job posting follows.
Pivot Ryan Dy leads a discussion on upcoming HTML5 and CSS3 features. Ryan talks about how best to take advantage of the new features in the most modern browsers. Slides available at http://ryandy.com/html5
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Cappuccino is an open source framework for building browser-based apps. It is designed exclusively for building apps, not websites, which lets the framework focus on high-level tasks and specialized performance optimizations. Ross Boucher of 280 North, authors of Cappuccino, demonstrates the framework.
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Jose de Castro from Voxeo uses Rails and Sinatra to demonstrate the Tropo API for building real time communications apps. He discusses how media servers, SIP Servlets, and JRuby are used to create a standards-based stack for cloud communications.
See all our talks at http://pivotallabs.com/talks
At Pivotal Labs, one of the services we provide is helping clients interview and hire. Pivotal Labs and our clients place a strong emphasis on Agile development and its many aspects: test-driven development, rapid iterations, frequent refactoring, etc.
Here is a job posting from ProFounder, a Pivotal client looking for a senior Rails developer.
Sr. Rails Developer - San Francisco
ProFounder is a new way of crowdfunding startups and small businesses through friends, family, and social network/community involvement online. There is a huge gap and need for funding for startups/small businesses right now and ProFounder has an innovative solution for it.
Founded by Jessica Jackley (Previously Co-Founder of Kiva, the world's first peer2peer microfinance site) and Dana Mauriello (previously an entrepreneur with real experience). We are all passionate about entrepreneurship and its transformative power in the world.
We are looking for a Senior Rails Developer to work along side our CTO (Ryan Garver). This person should have experience with TDD and modern Rails best practices. You will be our second developer pairing with our CTO and eventually helping to build a team as our company grows.