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Mpls.-St. Paul WordPress User Group Meeting Registration Up

Jay Myers — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:15:40 +0000

The first meeting of the Mpls.-St. Paul WordPress User Group is slated for July 30, 2009. We’ll be talking about a slew of WP topics, including:

Organizing Wordcamp Twin Cities 2009
Converting rocking HTML Designs into rocking WordPress Templates
WordPress Overview for Beginners
WordPress as a CMS

Details:

Minneapolis St. Paul WordPress User Group Kickoff Meeting

Thursday, July 30, 2009, 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM at Sierro Bravo, 9555 James Ave S Suite 245, Bloomington, MN 55431

Cost: free!

Interest in Organizing WordCamp in the Twin Cities

Jay Myers — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:46:51 +0000

I’m hoping to stir up some interest in organizing a WordCamp here in the Twin Cities. I’ll “run point” but could use some other enthusiasts to assist.

We have a thriving interactive community that presumably should be interested in things WordPress. Any takers?

Email jmyers at visi dot com or @jaymyers

Best Buy seeking Front End Web Developer

Jay Myers — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:12:44 +0000

Best Buy Corporation is seeking a highly skilled “Front End Web Developer” with excellent front end programming skills and consultative abilities. This position will leverage a variety of programming and markup languages combined with web standards and usability guided design principles to develop and deploy websites/web applications for the Best Buy enterprise.

The qualified candidate must have expert knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP/ASP.NET, JSP, PHP, troubleshooting skills, while keeping top of mind the practices of SEO and accessibility as well as web standards and trends. The candidate must demonstrate the ability to choose the best methods of web application implementation for both code efficiency and resource (time, money, etc.) efficiency on a project by project basis.

Click here to apply

Best Buy Looking for Front End Web Development Lead

Jay Myers — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:37:58 +0000

Ideal Candidates Have:

Expert knowledge of hand-coded HTML (XHTML and DHTML inclusive), CSS and JavaScript based on web standards and best practices for code optimization, accessibility and SEO.
Strong experience developing, testing, implementing, production ready sites in multiple markup languages.
Proven problem solving / solution architecture experience: Displays the ability to determine the best approach to solve a problem, not necessarily always the quickest, easiest or the cheapest, but the solution that best positions Best Buy for success for the future in any project.
Proven ability to determine the best approach/coding language/methods based on project needs as well as budgetary efficiency.
Proven ability to speak to groups and evangelize solutions or concepts and explain them in business terms including the ability to review existing or 3rd party code and deliver feedback.
Willingness to diversify knowledge in a small team of web developers by a continuous teaching and learning cycle between the members.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of experience or an Associate degree with 8 years of experience
5 years of advanced HTML, CSS, and JavaScript hand-coding and troubleshooting skills
4 years of web development experience on large, complex websites
3 years of one or a combination of ASP/JSP/PHP or similar web coding experience and troubleshooting skills
Previous experience working across business lines presenting and creating web solutions

Preferred Qualifications:

Demonstrated consultative experience

To apply
Click here: http://tinyurl.com/2g66vz

Best Buy Front-End Developer Position

Jay Myers — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:51:25 +0000

Best Buy is seeking a skilled front-end Web Developer with excellent communication and consultative abilities. This position will leverage a variety of programming and markup languages combined with web standards and usability-guided design principles to develop and deploy web sites/web applications for the Best Buy enterprise.

Ideal Candidates have:

Expert knowledge of hand-coded HTML (XHTML and DHTML inclusive), CSS and JavaScript based on web standards and best practices for code optimization, accessibility and SEO.
Ability to quickly troubleshoot HTML / CSS / ASP / JSP / PHP / JavaScript / Web Browser / Network Issues / DNS / etc. related problems.
Proven ability to speak to groups and evangelize solutions or concepts and explain them in business terms including the ability to review existing or 3rd party code and deliver feedback.
Willingness to diversify knowledge in a small team of web developers by a continuous teaching and learning cycle between members.

Required Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of experience or an Associate degree with 8+ years of experience.
5+ years: Advanced HTML, CSS, and JavaScript hand-coding and troubleshooting skills.
4+ years of web development experience on large, complex websites.
3+ years: ASP/JSP/PHP or similar web coding experience and troubleshooting skills.
2+ years: Demonstrated consultative experience architecting, proposing, and collaborating with business teams on web initiatives and applications.

Note: Candidates dependent upon WYSIWYG applications to complete their work will not be considered.

To see a full description and apply for this position, please see the job post on CareerBuilder.

PNG Product Images?

Jay Myers — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:18:09 +0000

A question to the community at large. I’ve been asked to give an opinion on the PNG file format. More specifically, if it would be worth it to include a PNG version of products in the process of creating web photo assets. Note that I’m referring to a large number of product images (in the hundreds of thousands), so we’re talking about a fundamental shift and yet another step in what can be a time-consuming process.

I’m familar with most of the pros/ cons of PNG and have utilized them for their benefits in gradients and tackled the whole IE transparency issue. The question is, would you bother with PNG?

Engaging the enterprise in emerging trends

Jay Myers — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:53:29 +0000

In large and small scale businesses there is a divide — one that separates the business from the more technical folk. In today’s marketplace, it is critical that these two forces meet somewhere in the middle, sharing an understanding of commonplace technical terms, techniques and trends. It’s scary when a business lead is driving an initative, but yet doesn’t truly grasp the high-level technical concepts of the work; or when the business side sees something “cool” and says, “why can’t we have that on our site?” Sound familiar?

To help alleviate this, I have been pondering methods to help engage the everyday business employee in all the things that we find wonderful, amazing or problematic in our “world”. As designers, developers, IAs and PMs, we all see things we think are beneficial to our industry, and to our business. But how do we go about sharing those concepts with the masses, all with varying degrees of knowledge?

I have been running a tool ala del.icio.us, where a user can “tag” stories of interest or relevance from a handy Firefox toolbar icon. These “tagged” entries are compiled into RSS for internal consumption by anyone who wants to subscribe. It started out with some fanfare, but has slowed, with just a couple of people now adding entries here and there. I’m considering an all-out internal marketing blitz to promote this simple tool, but am looking for additional engagement ideas.

Anyone out here have interesting engagement “strategery”?