{"id":720,"date":"2006-08-21T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/21\/photonet-programmer-ad\/"},"modified":"2006-08-21T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T17:34:00","slug":"photonet-programmer-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/21\/photonet-programmer-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"photo.net Programmer ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a little out of touch with what it takes to attract good programmers these days.\u00a0 Please comment on the following ad&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Programmer<\/p>\n<p>photo.net, established in 1993, is looking for programmers, full- or<br \/>\npart-time.\u00a0 If you like the site and the community, this is an<br \/>\nopportunity to help out and get paid.<\/p>\n<p>What are we going to be building over the next year or two?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>much better community and photo sharing services<\/li>\n<li>a system to sell stock photo rights from our gallery and share the<br \/>\nrevenue with photographers<\/li>\n<li>a system to interface our gallery with high-quality printing<br \/>\nservices<\/li>\n<li>improved content management and editorial workflow systems<\/li>\n<li>a system for performance management of the entire site and company<br \/>\nso that everyone involved with photo.net can see if they are having a<br \/>\npositive impact<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our current system is based on Oracle 9i and the ArsDigita Community<br \/>\nSystem 3.2, a free open-source toolkit that was developed initially for<br \/>\nphoto.net.\u00a0 We expect to upgrade to Oracle 10g soon.\u00a0 Most of our<br \/>\nprogramming and thinking is done in SQL or PL\/SQL. We use AOLserver Tcl<br \/>\nscripts for the glue code that puts HTML templates and SQL queries<br \/>\ntogether. New development projects may in some cases be implemented in<br \/>\nRuby on Rails.<\/p>\n<p>Experience with SQL programming is required.\u00a0 Experience developing Web<br \/>\napplications in some sort of scripting environment is required.\u00a0 C\/Unix<br \/>\nprogramming experience is desirable, but not required.<\/p>\n<p>You will report to and work directly with Jin S. 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