# AJAX jobs at a Top NY newspaper

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**Created:** [October 18, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ajax-jobs-at-a-top-ny-newspaper/72555 "2006-10-18T01:21:04Z")\
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AJAX Consultant

Top NY newspaper is seeking a candidate who is confident about building  
and extending a personalization platform for [xxxx.com](http://xxxx.com), a site with an  
unparalleled combination of scale and complexity. You have extensive  
experience programming in a UNIX/Linux environment. The ideal candidate  
is a self starter who will pick up programming tasks and run with them,  
collaborating in a team environment with buy in, and checkpoints to  
ensure diverse perspectives to the work.

Responsibilities include the following:  
· Developing key Javascript components for an AJAX platform  
· Considering client, protocol, server, and security issues during  
development  
· Contributing creative ideas toward solving platform issues as they  
crop up  
· Designing reusable, object-oriented code that can be redeployed  
· Ensuring AJAX client robustness through formal unit and performance  
testing

Necessary skills include the following:  
· B.S./B.A. in Computer Science, or a degree in a related field plus  
Computer Science coursework, or equivalent experience  
· Over 6 years Web development work experience  
· Javascript on all major browsers and platforms (IE5-7, Mozilla,  
Safari, Opera)  
· JavaScript/AJAX: Extensive experience developing professional,  
cross-browser AJAX based functionality. Strong knowledge of DOM  
manipulation and working with JSON and XML document types, some  
knowledge of CSS.  
· Object-oriented design with Javascript, including closures, design  
patterns, memory management, event handlers, and JSON  
· Experience with XML, XML-RPC, and XSLT  
· PHP: Experience with application development in PHP, including  
database access, regular expressions, text parsing, validation rules,  
and security.  
· Experience working as part of a team  
· Strong verbal and written communication skills

Desired skills include the following:  
· Formal software development methodology  
· Experience writing shared and reusable components of code  
· Experience designing and tuning applications that can scale  
· Some background in a structured programming language, such as Java  
or C/C++  
· Use of source control  
· UNIX/Linux: Proficiency as a system user and light administration  
skills.  
· MySQL experience desired

John P. Dufour  
Business Development  
347.594.4591  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
[www.distributed-technology.com](http://www.distributed-technology.com)  
Distributed Technology Solutions, Inc