<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Couldn't guarantee it Matty J - depends a bit if we can tease something "off the shelf" like ActiveMQ into doing what we want.</div><div><br></div><div>I am interested in Erlang's mnesia for distributed storage though, and also in a scalable messaging system which integrates well with persistent storage and can handle delivery to twitter-style 'followers' (we call them stalkers). Seems like something Erlang-based could be a good fit for this at some point. We've been reading the PragProg book on it at any rate :)</div><div><br></div><div>Then again maybe we'll end up following the route of others and patching something together in a devious fashion with mysql, memcached and starling-or-similar. Whoever comes on board will certainly have a big say in it all.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On 18 Aug 2008, at 17:27, Matthew Rudy Jacobs wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">oh cool.<br>Would successful applicants get the opportunity to write their own persistent messaging / queueing system in Erlang if they so wished?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/8/18 Matthew Willson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matthew@playlouder.com">matthew@playlouder.com</a>></span><br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Dear all,<br> <br> Hope you don't mind the job plug - perhaps some of you will remember my talk a while back about a widget-based web framework in Ruby. As it turns out, things are starting to take off at Playlouder, the music start-up for which it was developed - and we're looking to hire a third developer.<br> <br> This isn't quite your vanilla Rails development job - we're pushing Ruby in some interesting directions. But it should offer some great opportunities for talented Ruby sorts to play with music services, messaging and rich web application development, and help scale them within ISP networks.<br> <br> Full detail follows for those interested - feel free to email me with any questions, especially if you're interested how we're using Ruby :)<br> <br> -Matt<br> <br> <br> <br> Music Service Developer<br> <br> Playlouder MSP has been working with ISPs and the music industry to develop both an innovative business model for music consumption, and innovative user experiences around music and communication to complement ISPs' offerings.<br> <br> As a key addition to our small but growing development team, you will be critical in helping to refine, scale and roll out our application and service to white-label ISP clients.<br> <br> Key requirements<br> <br> * Background in computer science, mathematics, software engineering or similar (degree or equivalent experience)<br> * A solid technical all-rounder with software development experience on sizeable projects<br> <br> The specifics<br> <br> Our work involves all of the following, and you'll be tackling problems involving many of them:<br> <br> * Dynamic languages (experience with Ruby, on which our current implementation is based, would be particularly desirable)<br> * Rich web application development with a large Javascript-based client-side portion<br> * A modular, widget-based user interface framework for the above<br> * Databases (MySQL at present), data modeling and ORM tools<br> * Unix-based deployment environments<br> * Large volumes of media, media metadata and usage statistics<br> * Web services APIs, and large-scale integration work<br> * Server push technologies, and scaling applications with a live messaging component<br> * Common agile software development tools, processes and techniques - source control, bug tracking, testing etc<br> * A warehouse full of music geeks :)<br> <br> Some other things which you might get to play with:<br> <br> * Other languages - Java, Python, C, possibly Erlang (see 'messaging' above), …<br> * Messaging technologies like AMQP, ActiveMQ, XMPP<br> * Music technology R&D projects<br> * Lots more in a fast-growing company<br> <br> In return we can offer challenging problems in an interesting domain, competitive pay, and a great work environment for music fans in our E2 warehouse!<br> <br> Enquiries to <a href="mailto:matthew@playlouder.com" target="_blank">matthew@playlouder.com</a><br> <br> Company site: <a href="http://mediaserviceprovider.com/" target="_blank">http://mediaserviceprovider.com/</a><br> _______________________________________________<br> Chat mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Chat@lists.lrug.org" target="_blank">Chat@lists.lrug.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org" target="_blank">http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</a><br> </blockquote></div><br></div> _______________________________________________<br>Chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Chat@lists.lrug.org">Chat@lists.lrug.org</a><br>http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>