Monthly Archives: September 2007

Ruby, Photography, and Women

My second twitterstalk was Andrei at Caffe Trieste in North Beach. Andrei is someone everyone should be nice to for reasons I mentioned before. He’s trying to get me back into photography.
I think it’s because he has a photoblog now…

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…and I still haven’t written my talk

Apparently, I’m giving a talk at php|works in Atlanta on Friday. My talk should be just interesting enough to avoid it.
This year, I need to change it up and go low key on my mad Apple Keynote skills. (What? You … Continue reading 

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Engineering Manager in LAMP

Next Internet is seeking an Engineering Manager for one of our fast growing companies in San Francisco, who is experienced in Internet marketing and advertising network startups with a keen interest in building out the world’s best transaction platform…. Qualifications: The ideal candidate will have strong development skills, with experience in designing and architecting scalable high-performance systems and services that are also flexible, reliable and maintainable Extensive Startup Experience Experience with transport systems such as Strongmail, PowerMTA, Lyris, etc Experience with LAMP open source deployments and ecommerce technology: PHP, Perl, Python, MySQL, Postgres, Ruby, etc They will have excellent problem-solving skills, a solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, along with a quantitative mindset Database skills and experience with large-scale multi-tiered distributed systems are also highly desired This position offers a competitive base salary and bonus program, stock options, and other comprehensive benefits.If you want to work at a company where numbers continue to grow exponentially in every positive aspect, the environment/culture is awesome, the people are friendly and are constantly smiling, laughing, and actually look forward to going into work every day, this is the place to be!

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…and he’s coming to San Francisco

Last week, a friend sent me this with the comment: So a group of us are going…. No, I just bought a VIP ticket…and I fully intend to be thrown out.

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