Buildrx (www.buildrx.com) is looking for freelance developers (possibly contract to hire)! Anywhere in the world, we are based out of Oakland, CA and Toronto.
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We're looking for experienced PHP freelance developers to add to the team. Our clients include brands such as: Scion, Universal Music, True Religion Brand Jeans, Juicy Couture, the SF 49ers and many other big brands.
Please pass this along to anyone who might be interested and available!
LOOKING FOR:
Experience with HTML/CSS/Javascript:
-Experience making cross browser pixel
-perfect websites (including older browsers such as IE7 when required)
-Experience with jQuery
-Some HTML5/CSS3 understanding is good, not necessary
Experience with PHP/MySQL:
-Deep understanding of OOP, including at least one major framework (Cake, CI, etc)
-Experience working with Magento is a huge plus
-Experience with ORM (ideal but not required)
-Experience working with APIs (building them is a plus) -Experience working with Facebook (ideal but not required) -Deep understanding of MySQL
Experience with Rails:
-Also ideal, but not required
You will telecommute most of the time but would be great to find someone either in the SF bay area or around Toronto for occasional in-person meetings.
What does medium sized mean? My friend has an online store that grossed 5 million USD in the last year, he is looking for help him next-gen'ing his Magento store as well as SEO. Is that something you'd be good at? He wants one solution provider for both re-doing his store and SEO.
Thank you for writing this. It's too often that I feel alone in the world of dev consultancy! I've been running my company for 3 1/2 years, I started it straight out of college in 2008 when I realized job opportunities were slim to none and I'd have to figure out how to pay my rent regardless.
The most important lesson I learned all these years: find a reputable client, do good by them and watch word of mouth spread. Our biggest asset is the great referrals we get from our clients.
It's all too often that we end up taking over a project that was done by some previous consultant/freelancer where they obviously didn't care about the client relationship and let the work get sloppy. It's a shame! (Also, I'm not talking about tiny projects for no name brands, I'm talking about major retailers, musicians and sometimes fortune 500's).
in response to your response: I personally don't understand why people make a big deal out of it either way/don't really care about the comments and I agree with what you're saying. We're trying to bring some spice back into tech interviews--something that, at times, can be presented in a boring way.
We think tech is a hot topic and we don't have any issues with making our show playful, interesting and casual.
If you want to watch serious Q&A type stuff, go for it- you're not our demographic. There's plenty of awesome content like that across the internet.
I guess I never knew it was there in the past, and had gone away. However, not to be too rude, but I will take my spice from spicier sources and stick to TED for my nerd fixes.
I guess I am saying that it's time to retool, ladies. I AM the closest thing to your demographic, and I don't really get it. Your comment about not caring about the comments rings a bit hollow if you are simultaneously slinking over here to purr about your show.
Anyway, best of luck, but I would advise getting really serious about your tech interviews and leave the casual stuff for after dark.
I don't mean the lack of line, I mean the fact that you're seemingly focusing on that you're "hot successful women". Maybe I over estimate everyone, but I assumed the majority of people who'd be watching your show (and the interview with Jessica) would care about the contents and not you personally and that line was therefore meant as a tongue in cheek joke because the perceived idea is that the average tech viewer only cares about boobies.
I think the point ojbyrne is making is that your selling point is you're hot and are therefore inviting people to comment on that when really we should be commenting on the interview and therefore we're wrong to criticise those that do comment on your appearances etc because you're making that the focus.
I'm one of the interviewers for GU. We're fairly new to this and started the show just a few weeks ago to have conversational-style chats with other entrepreneurs in the valley. Any and all feedback is appreciated! Thanks. : )
I started watching but turned off due to the sound quality. I think its the sound of the fan from the computer being picked up by the mic. Blame steve jobs :) Keep doing what you are doing, looked like an interesting interview.
Best of luck! My suggestion besides the audio quality:
1. Please make sure that that the interviewers do not bang the table so often
2. The format with the interviewee between 2 people is very very awkward. Both interviewers often talk at the same time so Jessica has to keep looking from one to the other just back and forth. Distracting
3. Framing is too tight.
Again. Love the idea and hope you guys knock it out of the park!
Thanks for the show. Idea is good, I have 2 feedbacks
1. I agree with the sound quality comment. The echo made it annoying.
2. When I tune into an interview I want to mostly hear from the guest. I turned it off after I found that the interviewers were doing most of the talking. I understand that your aim is 'conversation-style' but most viewers are probably tuning in to hear from the guest.
