[LRUG] [JOB] Rails Developers Wanted

[James Adam]

While I'm definitely sympathetic to the problem of vague job adverts,  
I think we've put Andy through enough here - and let's not forget that  
he's been a really good sport about it. Hopefully it's also been  
edifying for anyone else thinking of posting a job listing here too.

That said, perhaps any other questions can be directed at him off- 
list, for those who might be interested in applying for the job.

Awesome,

James

On 16 Apr 2009, at 20:17, Matthew Rudy Jacobs wrote:

> JGP also did quite a lot of work on ActsAsSolr last summer,
> http://github.com/jgp/acts_as_solr/commits/master
>
> For a while it was the best fork of the project
> (for those that don't know ActsAsSolr provides ActiveRecord-like
> functionality for SOLR full-text search)
>
> Many of the commits were then taken on by github.com/look, and
> github.com/mattmatt
> to produce what is now the defacto "official repository" -
> http://github.com/mattmatt/acts_as_solr
>
> 2009/4/16 Andy <rails_nut at hotpop.com>:
>> Personal or Company ?
>>
>> Personal Blog: http://www.onesandthrees.com/
>>
>> Personal GitHub: Nothing public right now, I have something in the  
>> pipeline
>> for a few weeks away.
>>
>> Personal Rubyforge: Nothing, and nothing planned.
>>
>> Company blog: (jobseeker focus) http://blog.jobsgopublic.com/
>>
>> Company blog: (job advertiser focus) http://messageboard.jgp.co.uk/
>>
>> Company corporate site: http://www.jgp.co.uk/
>>
>> There is nothing public on the corporate github account, and there  
>> is no
>> coporate rubyforge account.
>>
>> Tell me if there's anything I've missed. Bear in mind while looking  
>> at the
>> corporate stuff, only 12% of the company is involved in ruby,  
>> rails, open
>> source,  etc (assuming dev team at full strength) so you may not  
>> find the
>> things that are going to interest you. Scrum/agile involves most of  
>> the
>> company of course, and that's evidenced by the many informal 'scrum  
>> boards'
>> dotted throughout the office. (which is a very nice open office,  
>> BTW, in a
>> converted warehouse that used to be the home of  'Dragons Den'.)
>>
>> Andy
>> *
>>
>> Anthony Green* wrote:
>> <mailto:chat%40lists.lrug.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BLRUG%5D%20%5BJOB%5D%20Rails%20Developers%20Wanted&In-Reply-To=%3CC60CE482.502C%25Anthony.Green%40bbc.co.uk%3E 
>> >
>>
>> And your blog / github /rubyforge projects ....are where ?
>>
>> As previous threads have indicated employers in the Ruby sector are  
>> being
>> scrutinized far more that in other areas.
>>
>> I look to Hashrocket as the yard stick. The persona they reveal  
>> through
>> their blogs, videos, conference presentations gives me a very real  
>> sense of
>> what it would be like to work there.
>>
>>
>> Andy wrote:
>>>
>>> Nobody interested at all ?
>>>
>>> Did I do the wrong thing posting just before a bank holiday  
>>> weekend ?
>>>
>>> Or is it the fact that it's not a start-up make it unattractive ?
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
>>> Andy wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Okay, seems from the discussion here a day or so there are a lot of
>>>> passionate rubyists on the list.
>>>>
>>>> I would very much like to work with guys like you ... and my  
>>>> company is
>>>> recruiting.
>>>>
>>>> (But please, no recruitment consultants at the moment.)
>>>>
>>>> We work in the realms of public sector recruitment and our rails  
>>>> app
>>>> powers 100+ public sector job sites. It's a smallish company  
>>>> (30-35) and
>>>> we're recruiting for at least one and possibly two developers, to  
>>>> join a
>>>> team of 2. We're just outside the City of London, to the east.
>>>>
>>>> It's an interesting, challenging environment, particularly now that
>>>> there's a significant maintenance component to the work alongside  
>>>> new
>>>> development, and we absolutely need developers who want to do it  
>>>> right.
>>>>
>>>> We've been doing scrum for 3 years now, we are committed to agile
>>>> practices including particularly TDD/BDD.
>>>>
>>>> If you think this might suit you drop me enough info in an email to
>>>> persuade me to have a coffee (or other beverage) with you. I'll  
>>>> leave it
>>>> up to your discretion as to whether that includes a github URL,  
>>>> your CV,
>>>> the dissertation you submitted for your Ph.D or your ranking in the
>>>> national table football league.
>>>>
>>>> :)
>>>>
>>>> Andy  (Dev Team Leader)
>>>>
>>>>
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