[socal-piggies] AOL's Userplane team is hiring a front-end web developer in Santa Monica!

[Jathan McCollum]

Hey all-

My apologies for any confusion. I should have disclaimed from the get-go. I
beat the Python bat pretty heavily on the Userplane team and should have
stated that as well.

Lesson learned!

The fact is this role presents an opportunity for drastic influence on the
future of the architecture of their development platform and back-end
technologies. The role is a "front-end engineer" but as many of you
probably know, you can't have one without the other. Their legacy
infrastructure is mostly comprised of Java and FlashCom, and is something
they desparately want to move away from.

Quite frankly the door is wide open for what is going to drive the scale
and innovation of their next-gen platform. To me this is a ripe opportunity
to say, "well how about Python?"

I was thinking that with the breadth of expertise both in web programming
and server-side architecture of our community, that this presents a pretty
cool opening for change.

I am appreciative of the respect I have earned amongst you all, and thank
you for giving me the benefit of the doubt. This is only job posting I've
ever made here, and I will certainly make a better effort on highlighting
why I thought it was relevant in the first place the next time!

Much respect,

jathan.

On Thursday, May 31, 2012, Grig Gheorghiu wrote:

> We usually don't post non-Python-related job opportunities. But I have
> no problem advertising jobs for people who have proved their
> dedication to the Piggies group -- people like Jathan for example, who
> have actually hosted meetings in the past. We don't have a mission
> statement and I don't think we'll have one any time soon. Or maybe 'WE
> LOVE PYTHON' would be good enough?
>
> Grig
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Sean Bradley <sean at bravoflix.com> wrote:
> > My two cents (or less): I think--if anything--announcements like these
> > provide some valuable "intel" and insight into what other language
> > communities are doing...  Keeps us Pythonistas on our toes. ;)  For a
> newb
> > like me, who does well just to stay on top of Python, it's better than
> > trawling bulletin boards, reading blogs, going to yet more meet-ups, etc.
> >  As an entrpreneur: I think seeing what skill sets start-ups are hiring
> for
> > now is the surest way to discern where the real edge of progress in the
> > other community lies.  Hence, knowing that, inspires development or
> sparks
> > conversation in the community of developers I live in...  Finally, IMHO,
> > insomuch as Jathan is a member of both communities, seems perfectly legit
> > and natural for him to include us in this announcement, no?  (That being
> > said: I understand well concerns to maintain the relevancy of this
> group's
> > list.  It would indeed be a drag if an "onslaught" of non-Python related
> > material diluted the value / "purity" of this group's list.  Even so:
> this
> > is hardly an onslaught.  In that regard, don't know if an "all Python all
> > the time" policy is better than a more liberal way to manage things...
> >  Personally: I intuit a more porous and less insular "circle of trust"
> with
> > regard to post-able content is smarter long-term...and potentially more
> > profitable...for all Piggies.
> >
> > As an aside: as a group, do we have a mission statement or vision
> statement
> > or some kind of statement somewhere?  Or is the informality what everyone
> > values the most?
> >
> > Sean
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Charles Esterbrook
> > <Charles at charles-esterbrook.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> If you rock that project with http://coffeescript.org/ it's close
> >> enough. Check out the "array comprehensions" and absence of
> >> unnecessary punctuation.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Charles Esterbrook
> >> http://charles-esterbrook.com
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Grig Gheorghiu
> >> <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > FWIW Jathan asked me for permission and I approved it. Wasn't aware
> >> > it's not a Python-specific job though.
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Howard B. Golden
> >> > <howard_b_golden at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> >> IMO, it's OK for Piggies to post here, even if jobs aren't
> specifically
> >> >> Python. Non-Piggies should send notices to Grig for approval first.
> >> >>
> >> >>> From: Daniel Greenfeld <pydanny at gmail.com>
> >> >>>To: SoCal Python Interest Group <socal-piggies at lists.idyll.org>
> >> >>>Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 11:16 AM
> >> >>>Subject: Re: [socal-piggies] AOL's Userplane team is hiring a
> front-end
> >> >>> web developer in Santa Monica!
> >> >>>
> >> >>>As this is not a python job is it appropriate for this to be posted
> >> >>> here.
> >> >>
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Jathan.
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