Don Heusman of the Wharton School of Business is looking for a CF freelancer to work on a number of projects, and I offered to pass along his information here. If you're available and interested, please contact him by email or by phone at: 215-898-0320.

Performance Media Group is a company that is redefining business to business media, not just travel trade media. Our forward thinking philosophy, extensive industry experience and unique approach to addressing a rapidly changing business landscape have lead to our remarkable growth.

We are seeking a Web Application Developer to take part in conceptualizing, building, and maintaining web projects for our various initiatives within the travel industry.

Duties of this position include:

• Working independently, and with a team to maintain our ColdFusion and Flash-based platforms
• Build and implement standards based websites to meet project goals and allow for future development
• Assist in product development by performing technical and functional R&D
• Work with and support internal staff and client base on web products
• Performance tuning and troubleshooting of user errors and coding issues
• Code versioning control with SVN and system/site documentation creation

The ideal candidate will have:

• Proven programming experience with ColdFusion 8+, Javascript, AJAX Frameworks, Flash, XHTML, and XML/XSLT (.NET a HUGE PLUS)
• Well versed in writing SQL queries for MySQL and MSSQL server environment.
• Development skills in Flex also very helpful
• Experience developing high-availability web sites by producing professional code with minimal bugs
• Experience with both Windows & Linux server environments for administration from the command line(CLI) and GUI, for troubleshooting and performance tuning of applications. 

In addition to the skill set above, the ideal candidate will be a self-starter, capable of working effectively on his/her own and working with a team. Good communication skills are mandatory, as you will be dealing with staff and clients with general support. The candidate also must be reliable, diligent and have a true passion for working in a creative, ideas oriented, fast paced environment where team work is not only encouraged, it's required.

The team you'll be working with is a group of highly energetic and project oriented professionals who enjoy the fun and benefits of our business. You'll be part of the web development team with the ability to grow into other areas of the business.

This position reports to the Web Development Lead and is also accountable to the owner of the company. You will be working directly with other application programmers with similar duties as well as a team of front end designer/developers creating the direction, look and feel of the projects.

Local candidates only please, no telecommuting option. You must be able to legally work in the US with a residence within 50 miles of Westampton, NJ

Candidates only please. Recruiters, staffing companies and freelancers need not contact us.

Please send us a copy of your resume and relative work experience (with links if applicable) to mterkanian@perftech.net

Just a quick reminder that we will be meeting on TUESDAY next week -- the 20th. Steve Rittler will be [presenting](http://www.phillycfug.org/post/july-meeting-no-longer-lost-with-coldfusion-orm-with-steve-rittler) on ColdFusion ORM. I've updated the original announcement with the room information, but here it is again for your convenience:

Since CFUnited announced that 2010 will be their last year, a couple of people have approached me with the idea of starting a new ColdFusion conference in the Philadelphia area.

Why not? We have 3 CFUGs nearby: Philly (of course), Pittsburgh, and New York. And the Maryland CFUG (revival in process) isn't that far away, either. Heck... we Pennsylvanians and New Yorkers head down to DC for CFUnited without thinking twice. It should work the other way around too, right?

But creating a conference would be a significant investment, and you know how much I like surveys... so we put one together to gauge interest in our hypothetical new conference. So do me a favor...

Take the survey!

... and then pass it around to every CF developer you know. Even if they're from San Diego or Scotland. If they would consider coming out, then we want their opinions. Share it on Twitter and Facebook, and email it to your grandma with a giant multi-colored font and animated gifs. Either include a threat that if she doesn't forward it to at least 100 of her friends that she'll have bad luck for the rest of her life, or say that if she does forward it Steve Jobs will send her an iPad. Or both. And then try to explain to her what an iPad is...

(P.S. We're thinking about Flex too, so if that tickles your fancy, be sure to take the survey!)