The desired experiences are some of the most relevant and concise I’ve ever read in a job posting.

• You love technology and learning about it.
• You write a blog. About anything. Penguins, Macs, NASCAR, anything.
• You love helping people and find it rewarding to solve people’s problems. Then you love to proactively use that experience to make the whole service better.
• You are an independent, creative self-starter who loves running with things while keeping everyone inside and outside the company in the loop.
• You love to write & enjoy sharing your ideas with others.
• You spend a lot of time online and stay up-do-date on new, fun things out there for web savvy users as well as regular people.
• The person taking this role can work remotely 100% of the time. The initial length of this project goes through Feb 2009.

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

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
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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.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/switched-on-apples-brash-flash-clash-rehash/

I find my mac loyalty waning as they become a bigger player in the world of consumer electronics. Has anyone noticed that Best Buy is now an Apple Authorized Reseller? I’m sure that has something to do with CompUSA closing half it’s stores, but I digress.

I was excited when I heard about the iPhone and although it’s way outside my budget and not really a necessity, I’d been thinking that an iPhone was in my future somewhere. Now that this Flash support issue has been a present for over a month and there’s some possibility it may not get resolved anytime soon, as a flash developer I’m thinking this may not be the phone for me.

Now I’d still tell you any day of the week that Apple is on so many levels, a better company then Adobe. Don’t even get me started about Microsoft. That said, I’ve got to start to consider what (from a Flash Developer’s perspective) is the best mobile device competing with the iPhone? Any thoughts?

“I am pleased to announce that Speakeasy has been acquired by Best Buy… our new relationship will help us realize our goals of becoming the No. 1 provider of voice and data solutions to small businesses….Speakeasy will now be a wholly owned subsidiary of Best Buy…continue to operate as a standalone, independent operating division with headquarters in Seattle.” – Bruce Chatterley, President & CEO, Speakeasy, Inc.

I’m cautiously intrigued with the changes at Best Buy: the end of strict office hours, their quest for action figures, and their quest for an information architect team manager, and now buying a company I really love, all speak to a very cool place. Then there’s this: “Best Buy has confirmed the existence of a second ‘secret’ website that looks identical to BestBuy.com, but has different prices and is only available inside Best Buy stores.”

I’ll update this post as other statement on the acquisition roll in.

ELSEWHERE:
Glenn Fleishman feels similarly:

“I’m still having palpitations, but we’ll see where the business goes. I liked my mom and pop ISP, the only national firm I know of that still retained that feeling. I’m nervous about their new corporate overlords.”

The Action Figures are a small, rapid software prototyping team being developed within The Geek Squad…The action figures will be divided into 3 groups: Operating system level, Web-based ‘live’ application level, and software quality testing….this role will rapidly design and develop prototypes….A demonstrated background in user experience design is strongly preferred.

The vision of a roving group of ‘action figures’ quickly prototyping and web apps for clients around town sure sounds sexy and intriguing.

Ben, has the Geek Squad been spying on you?