Charlie has a way of finding stuff that not too many people know about in ColdFusion. Thankfully, he's so community-minded that he puts together presentations on the cool stuff he finds!

Ben Nadel posted a link to a CF8 hidden gems PDF and presentation that Charlie did recently. If you're just getting in to CF8, this is well worth a look.

Charlie Arehart On ColdFusion 8's Hidden Gems

Enjoy!

Are you interested in applying advanced technologies in the Enterprise Java arena to build, from the ground up, our next generation application platform? Are you passionate about trying new ideas that have positive impact? Do you know why Rich Internet Applications are valuable and how they improve user experience? If so…

We are looking for talented individuals (mid, senior, and architect levels) to join our development team as we expand to meet the needs of our growing company. We work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and entrepreneurial environment encouraging participation and interesting ideas. Application developers are responsible for developing and maintaining strategic solutions supporting all aspects of our business. Responsibilities span the entire software lifecycle using a Scrum-based agile methodology.

Essential Functions:

• Work as a member of the development team participating in the full software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Construct software using modern software principles using state of the art technologies.
• Collaborate with end-users to determine features, requirements and solution design.
• Troubleshoot and resolve application issues and assist technical support with issues as needed.

Qualifications and Experience:

• 3-5 years of full lifecycle software development experience.
• Must have solid experience in successfully constructing applications using Cold Fusion and related technology.
• Knowledge and experience with web-based applications,
• Must have experience writing software using databases (SQL Server or Oracle or MySQL).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to accomplish tasks with minimal supervision.
• Solid organizational skills.

Desired Qualifications:

• BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or Science.
• Knowledge of object-oriented software design and implementation practices.
• Experience with least one persistence framework (e.g. Hibernate, EJB, etc).
• Experience with J2EE technologies such as EJB, JPA, JMX, JMS
• Experience with application servers (JBoss, BEA Weblogic, IBM Websphere).
• Agile experience is a plus.
• .NET experience is a plus.

Please feel free to contact me directly if you are interested.

Tim Dodd
tdodd@hostmysite.com
Direct: 302-224-4532
Cell: 302-528-1915

Adam Howitt (a certified ColdFusion developer) is giving an online presentation this Thursday at noon on how to Build a scalable architecture with Amazon's EC2. Amazon is providing developers some pretty awesome functionality for grid computing ~ allowing you to push load to them during times of peak traffic. If you're remotely interested in how this might be useful to you as a CF developer, you should definitely tune in. Attendance is free, but RSVPs are appreciated.

A note from Dan Alig at Wharton:

Wharton Computing has a number of open positions, if you know anybody looking for interesting opportunities in technology, please point them to http://www.hr.upenn.edu/jobs/ and have them search under Org code 0748 (Wharton Computing and Instructional Technology).

More specifically, my group is looking for both UNIX and Windows Systems Administrators. I've included a general job description below, please take a look and forward this anyone you think would be interested, or anyone else who could help us find a great candidates.

Thanks for your help!
-Dan

Company: Wharton Computing
Job Title: Systems Administrator (Systems Programmer)
Description: Provide primary and second-tier systems and network support for the Wharton School. Responsible for the installation, configuration, optimization, maintenance, evaluation, troubleshooting, inventory and replacement/retirement of hardware, OSes and applications. Strong knowledge of Windows Server, Linux, Solaris, and core IT applications and ability to work with them in a complex, heterogeneous environment is preferred. Experience with and knowledge of networking concepts and system security is preferred. Other technologies of interest include Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, ColdFusion and Flex, as well as Unix Grid and Parallel computing using Sun Grid Engine.

A quick reminder that we are having our next meeting tomorrow at 5PM. Thanks to our friends at Wharton for hosting us again!

Topics

• Terry Ryan – Squidhead, an awesome bi-directional code generation tool for CF. Terry's (free) utility will save you tons of monkey typing and provide you with a solid, secure platform upon which to build your applications
• Steve Rittler – CF8 application and server security. Learn best practices for securing your CF installation and best practices for coding with security and stability in mind.

Location
The meeting will be in Steinburg Hall-Deitrich Hall 1251. A map is available here. We'll be starting at 5PM and running until about 7PM. Pizza and drinks will be provided courtesy of CounterMarch Systems. Adobe has given us a box full of goodies to give away too, so show up for some knowledge and freebies!

I look forward to seeing all of you there!