Terry Ryan gave a presentation on doing code reviews at one of our meetings earlier this year. He posted the slides from that talk this weekend - I highly recommend you take a look!

Conducting Formal Code Reviews by Terry Ryan.

Dave Konopka, one of our regular meeting attendees and recently-promoted Wharton employee is looking for a new developer to fill a slot on his team. The Wharton crew does some remarkable work in a great academic setting, which makes this a great opportunity for the right person to jump in and make an impact. From Dave:

We need to fill a full-time junior level web developer position within the central systems group at The Wharton School. While experience helps, we are ready to train someone who is self-motivated and excited about learning new technology.

The Job
This is primarily a ColdFusion shop with an emphasis on rapid development. But experience working with other web platforms such as PHP, .NET, Java, Ruby, etc. applies. If you are strong on the concepts of web development, we are willing to help you learn a new language.

The position involves a mix of creating new applications and supporting existing applications. All of our apps are database intensive, so experience and an interest in Microsoft SQL Server is a plus. We also maintain the servers that our applications run on, so you can expect to share in some systems administration. Our environment is mostly Microsoft Windows based.

Working at Penn
There are many benefits to working at a university. Penn offers tuition assistance, retirement fund matching, generous vacation time, and access to University resources such as the gyms. Our office is in the heart of University City and is easily accessible by multiple forms of public transportation including bus, trolley, and subway. You can find more details here: http://www.hr.upenn.edu/jobs/benefits.asp

Applying
If you are interested in applying, please visit the Jobs@Penn center: http://jobs.hr.upenn.edu/ and search postings for reference number 070822900

Be sure to apply to the Systems Programmer position in Wharton Computing and Instructional Technology. You must complete the online application to be considered.

A Philadelphia Area Flex User Group meeting is scheduled for Thursday, September 13th at 6:30pm.

Topic: Integrating Flex and Ruby on Rails Speaker: Derek Wischusen Date: Thursday, September 13th at 6:30pm Location: TBD

Topic Description: This presentation will provide a basic a overview of the Rails framework, the Ruby programming language, and how Flex can work with Rails to enable rapid RIA development. The presentation will conclude with a hands on demonstration of how to build a simple address book with Flex and Rails.

About the Speaker: Derek Wischusen is a Senior Manager of Electronic Products at Wolters Kluwer Health, where he manages and leads the development of Flex and Flash-based products. Derek has been creating applications using the Flash platform since 2000 and Rails since early 2006. He runs a popular blog on using Flex with Ruby on Rails. He has written technical articles on integrating Flex and Rails for Adobe's Flex Developer Center, where he was recently nominated as the Developer of the Month. Derek is the primary author of the Flex RoR SDK by Adobe.

For more information and to RSVP, go to http://paflex.org