We all had a good night out at Waterford’s local dog track, Kilcohan Park. I have never been to the dogs, or horse racing for that matter, before and it was an interesting experience. 11 races in quick succession with betting on each. I struck out on the first 9 races and then bet right on the last two, recovering some of my loses. Thankfully we were betting a max of 5 euro a time, usually just 2. At the end of the night I was down 17 euro on winnings of 8.
I am wired up thanks to an Ajax presentation I gave to the lads at The TSSG earlier. I am not used to giving them and still get nervous up in front of 30 Irish engineers. It seemed to go OK. You can download the PowerPoint presentation here (1.8Mb PPT).
Are you looking for a job? Do you want to work with feeds and information syndication technologies? Think you are up for a Web 2.0 project that you will be proud to work on? Ever felt like living and working in Ireland?
If so then we are looking for you; an enthusiastic developer to come work with Brian and I on the FeedHenry.com project.
Here is the job spec:
The FeedHenry project team in the commercialisation group of Waterford Institute of Technologies TSSG research group is looking for an enthusiastic and talented software developer to join our team. The successful candidate will work on an
innovative and challenging project that aims to change the way end users, developers, and businesses look at and use syndicated information.Candidates should meet these requirements:
- 2+ years development experience with C# and the
.NET Framework- Working knowledge of SQL and Microsoft SQL Server
- Familiarity with information syndication technologies
(RSS, ATOM, etc)- Familiarity with Agile development practices
- Familiarity with web services is desirable
- 4 year degree in computing (or equivalent
demonstrable work experience)Other skills desired, although not required, include:
- JavaScript
- HTML and CSS
- Ruby and Ruby on Rails
- MySQL
The development team work in an agile-based development environment and have access to a dedicated Verification and Validation group. The successful candidate will be based in the new Waterford Institute of Technology Carriganore campus in Waterford.
You can read more about The TSSG and careers there or you can drop me an email with your CV and why you want to work on FeedHenry.
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