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Looking for ASP.Net Mid-Level Developers

Published on August 29, 2011. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Hey guys, at Amblique, we’re looking to recruit several Mid-Level ASP.Net Developers.

To quote, the Atlassian guys, if you’re reading this blog then you probably already have the attitude we are looking for, but basically we want someone with a passion for application development on the web, who appreciates and understands where all the relevant web standards fit into the bigger picture, and who has serious experience working with the MS ASP.Net web stack (legacy or MVC).

Experience with SVN and some form of CI is an advantage, and SQL Server Experience is a must.

At Amblique we make websites that actually make our clients money using a in-house e-commerce system and the latest online development best practices. So from my perspective, we’ve got it all, the best pragmatic use of the right theory, in a market that is asking for results.

See the attached JD – Amblique ASP.Net Developer Roles - JD August 2011 (116).

Add a comment below or apply directly over on our website:

New hang out

Published on July 6, 2011. 0 Comments Tags: , .

So it’s been a while since I posted, and I realised I hadn’t made a post about my new 9-5 hang out.

Yep, I’ve changed roles again, and am incredibly excited to be working as the new Technical Director at Amblique.

Amblique do agency-type work, but work that is specifically focused on their custom built ASP.net ecommerce and content management system, so it should be a little bit less fast paced than Gruden was.

Needless to say, I will miss the great bunch of people over at Gruden, but I am definitely looking forward to putting my skills to use with a fantastic team that has immense potential and luxury of a little more focus that is afforded to a business with a specific product/market segment to target.

Looking for a full time senior dev and flex contractor

Published on December 20, 2010. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Got a few roles open at the moment:

  1. Looking for a full time Senior Dev (any server technologies around .Net, Cold Fusion, or even Flex)
  2. We’re also looking for a Sydney based Flex contractor to start on a short term contract ASAP. If you’re a flex contractor who knows Flex 3/4 MVC/MVP frameworks then we should probably talk.

Drop me an email or respond to this thread with a comment if you think you fit either role

First week at Gruden

Published on May 24, 2010. 0 Comments Tags: , .

So for those that noticed the update to my About Me page, I’ve had my first week at Gruden.

It was an interesting and exciting first week, and hopefully a good indicator of things to come. Not much else to say except it seems like I’ll be working with a bunch of great people on a bunch of great technologies in the online space. Pretty much my cup of tea.

End of an era… for me

Published on May 6, 2010. 1 Comment Tags: , .

Or perhaps the title should read “End of my era… at ninemsn“.

It’s been three and a half fruitful, action packed years, and I’ve had an absolute blast, but like all good things it has to come to an end. Tomorrow is my last day as a ninemsn‘er. I’m blessed to be leaving behind an incredibly talented commercial development team full of fantastic people with tremendous energy who will no doubt easily fill the void I leave behind in a matter of minutes. I’ll also be leaving behind some fantastic co-workers in a vibrant workplace that is just generally a nice place to be. You’ll all be missed.

I’ll be starting my new role as the Development Manager at Gruden in a couple of weeks, and am incredibly excited about the opportunities that that journey will present. The guys at Gruden are a fun and energetic bunch, and something tells me I’m going to fit right in there.

In the mean time, I’m probably going to spend a week at home doing absolutely nothing (well gardening anyhow). This will be the first actual break between jobs in almost 10 years, I think.

Goodbye ninemsn, it’s been a great ride.

Paul Graham does it again, on publishing

Published on October 9, 2009. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Fantastic read on publishing, and the concept of “paying for content” by Paul Graham.

Always an interesting take on things. I especially appreciated the distinction between “content” and software, both forms of information.

We’re hiring a front end dev at ninemsn

Published on October 6, 2009. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

We’re currently looking for a front end developer at work at the moment.

To give a bit of context, we’re looking for a front end dev in the Web Campaigns dev team which forms part of the larger Commercial Development Team that I head up.

We’re looking for someone who is fresh, and into the latest and greatest of online, including but not limited to social media, rich user experiences (ajax, flash, silverlight) and absolutely knows their way around cross browser compatible site building. The prospective candidate also still has to have their chops as an actual developer, mainly c#, vb.net and SQL Server, but I want to be clear that the position is predominantly front end development not application development.

If you think that description above is you, then hit the jobvite link and send through your resume. We also just launched a careers page on our main portal, so if you’re in the market, but this role above isn’t quite you, check it out.

House cleaning time at work

Published on March 18, 2009. 1 Comment Tags: , , .

At work at the moment we are going through the process of verifying the binaries and their call-trees on one of the production servers that’s been on a delta-upgrade-cycle-only release plan for a long time (delta-upgrade-cycle-only: the process of only releasing changed files to a live environment and never doing a full refresh).

I don’t agree with the philosophy of delta-upgrade-cycles-only. I think you should periodically do a full system refresh on every live system, and it should be an integral part of software develpoment and release process.

More often than not, people don’t do this because it’s too hard to either know what’s out there on their live server, or to deploy the full system with any confidence. Those reasons just aren’t good enough. Continuing on with delta-upgrades only treats the symptom, not the cause.

So in the mean time much pain for us as we ensure that the series of binaries and configuration files on this live server haven’t strayed too far from the “ideal” in our Continuous Integration system. I remembered recently that I happend to have a Pro License to the tool NDepend lying around unused, so we’ve decided to put it to use in the process of our analysis. More on that tool when we’ve put it through it’s paces.

What’s the point of this rant?

The whole point of Continuous Integration is that you are always able to reconstruct/test/verify your fully integrated system directly from your development environment. This panacea is actually achievable (I’ve done it before) in a new software team on a new clean project. But the hardest part of adopting Continuous Integration is jury-rigging it to existing build and deployment systems on legacy platforms. Finding the compromise between practicality and delivering a functional system, and idealism and tearing the whole system down and starting from scratch is a very delicate operation indeed.

5th Finger picks up MMA

Published on September 26, 2008. 2 Comments Tags: , .

Slightly belated, but one of the teams I head up the dev team for at work, 5th Finger, picked up an award at the MMA’s last week for the Live Earth Commitment Campaign back in 07.

Update: It’s worth noting, for accuracy’s sake that I wasn’t actually heading up the team back in 07 when we we won said award.