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Smalltalk Engineers Wanted at Cincom

May 28, 2012 19:37:54.484

Cincom has a few openings for developers on the Smalltalk team - one of them a VM slot.

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Looking for a Smalltalker

July 15, 2011 11:16:10.391

The place I work is looking for an experienced Smalltalk hand - we use VisualWorks 7.6, but we plan to migrate up to the latest Cincom release later this year. It's a long term project, based out of Dallas Texas. Interested? Contact me, and I'll put you in touch with the right people.

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How to Get Hired in Software

May 8, 2011 18:18:04.000

This Slashdot post makes a ton of sense to me:

Evans takes a stab at explaining why the new guy can't code when his interviewers and HR swear that they only hire above-average/A-level/top-1% people. Evans fingers the technical interview as the culprit, saying the skills required to pass today's industry-standard software interview are not those required to be a good software developer. Instead, Evans suggests: 'Don't interview anyone who hasn't accomplished anything. Ever. Certificates and degrees are not accomplishments; I mean real-world projects with real-world users. There is no excuse for software developers who don't have a site, app, or service they can point to and say, 'I did this, all by myself!'

I think all of that helped me a lot. When I was asked about prior work, I was able to point to this blog - powered by software I wrote. I was able to point to BottomFeeder - which is largely my code (I did get a lot of help from a lot of people on that one, but it's still largely my code). I could point to my Facebook interface code (and so on, and so on). Having your own site - especially one powered by code you created - is a very easy way of saying "At least once, I did something that works". As opposed to "I received this snazzy certificate that hangs on my wall".

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Paperwork

November 16, 2010 8:12:57.746

I've landed a new gig, which is good news. The slightly less good news is that it involves travel to a remote location (Dallas). There's an upside to that though; my sister, who I don't see very often, lives in that area. Also, I've been told that over time, I'll be able to do at least some of the work remotely. Given the state of my wife's knees (and the fact that my daughter will be heading to college next year), that will be important.

There are some funny aspects to the whole process of getting hired now. The last time I went through the whole interview/onboarding process was in 1993, when ParcPlace hired me. I came into Cincom via the acquisition of VisualWorks, so that process was pretty simple. Back in 1993, I recall there being very little paperworks. Sure, there was some, but it was pretty basic. Now? I'm not sure how many forms I've had to fill out, but it's a lot, and most of them seem to ask for variations on the same information. At least it's easier to get electronic copies of that stuff sent now; if it all had to go snail mail there's no telling how long the process might take :)

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Good News on the Work Front

October 30, 2010 10:46:03.731

Things are looking pretty good - I'm looking at two offers right now. Given the huge tide of long term joblessness in the US right now, I have to say that this is a huge relief for me :)

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Need a Smalltalker? I'm Looking

October 15, 2010 10:03:53.225

As of this morning, I'm no longer working for Cincom - I'm not going to go into the reasons for that here. However, that does mean that I'm looking for work - if anyone needs a Smalltalker, I'm pretty familiar with VisualWorks and ObjectStudio (and could pick up any other dialect pretty quickly).

You can contact me via jarober@gmail.com - I'm open to either fulltime work or contract work. I think "Smalltalk Daily" will be on hiatus for now; the podcast is ended as well, but there's new work media work I'm doing in that area:

Wish me luck!

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Need a Smalltalker?

August 27, 2010 20:19:54.227

Craig Latta is looking for work - check out his resume.

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RMOD is Looking for a Smalltalker

August 5, 2010 10:56:53.038

Interested in moving Moose forward? RMOD is looking for a developer with a Masters degree:

RMoD is looking for an engineer to support the development of a demonstrator for Moose. The constraints linked with the position are that the person should have got his master in 2009 or 2010.

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Smalltalk in Switzerland

June 3, 2010 16:19:49.639

This will appear in James Savidge's jobs database, but here are the details I have now:

I am recruiting for a “3rd Line Application Support professional with experience of Smalltalk” for a global Investment Bank based in Zurich Switzerland.

You can contact Ahmed Baig for further details.

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