Needed: Architect: Flex UI and Java backend

Job Description:



Evaluate architecture of the existing Flex (Java backend) application for a large client servicing many fortune 500 companies. Provide technical solutions to improve UI speed, scalability and ability to rapidly customize the application for the future clients. Mentor fellow teammates of the best practices of Flex development.



Job Qualifications:


• Experience as system architect and mentor. 
• Minimum of two (2) years of professional Flex application development. 
• Minimum of three (3) years of professional Java application development. 
• Ability to solve problems independently along with a strong teamwork sense, communication skills, often pair-programming and knowledge sharing. 
• Familiarity with open source frameworks such as Hibernate, Spring and Maven. 
• Experience with modern database (MySQL/Oracle) is required. 
• At least some level of experience with UNIX-based server environment (Linux/Mac). 
• Willingness to learn various cutting edge technologies will be required. 
• Understanding of Agile/SCRUM development and other methodologies preferred. 
• Must be able to travel on a limited basis, typically less than 20%. 
• College degree (4 year) or equivalent work experience is required.

Please contact:

Uki D. Lucas
email

"UkiDLucas - at - mac.com"



We are the organizers of Chicago Google Technology conferences:
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Needed: Architect: Flex UI and Java backend

Job Description:



Evaluate architecture of the existing Flex (Java backend) application for a large client servicing many fortune 500 companies. Provide technical solutions to improve UI speed, scalability and ability to rapidly customize the application for the future clients. Mentor fellow teammates of the best practices of Flex development.



Job Qualifications:


• Experience as system architect and mentor. 
• Minimum of two (2) years of professional Flex application development. 
• Minimum of three (3) years of professional Java application development. 
• Ability to solve problems independently along with a strong teamwork sense, communication skills, often pair-programming and knowledge sharing. 
• Familiarity with open source frameworks such as Hibernate, Spring and Maven. 
• Experience with modern database (MySQL/Oracle) is required. 
• At least some level of experience with UNIX-based server environment (Linux/Mac). 
• Willingness to learn various cutting edge technologies will be required. 
• Understanding of Agile/SCRUM development and other methodologies preferred. 
• Must be able to travel on a limited basis, typically less than 20%. 
• College degree (4 year) or equivalent work experience is required.

Please contact:

Uki D. Lucas
email

"UkiDLucas - at - mac.com"



We are the organizers of Chicago Google Technology conferences:
http://chigtug6.eventbrite.com/

Flex: skinning the UI

Here are a few useful links...

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/quickstart/skinning_components/

http://www.fillcolors.com/

http://www.loscavio.com/downloads/blog/flex3_css_list/flex3_css_list.htm

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/skins_styles.html

http://www.alagad.com/blog/post.cfm/flex-simple-skinning-example

http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex2StyleExplorer.html

http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex3StyleExplorer.html#

Flex: skinning the UI

Here are a few useful links...

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/quickstart/skinning_components/

http://www.fillcolors.com/

http://www.loscavio.com/downloads/blog/flex3_css_list/flex3_css_list.htm

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/skins_styles.html

http://www.alagad.com/blog/post.cfm/flex-simple-skinning-example

http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex2StyleExplorer.html

http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex3StyleExplorer.html#

Tour De Flex

Tour De Flex

http://tourdeflex.adobe.com/badge/

Soul searching

Every several months I am asking myself the question: what's next?

For the last 4 months, I've been creating a social network application CommunitySportsDesk.com in GWT with very good results. 

I used Spring, Hibernate, Maven and Ant. 

The project will keep on going for another year and a half, so I will get plenty of these technologies.

Still, the question remains, what's next?

The rest of the company is looking at Flex3. 

In the last several years we learned to avoid the XML-hell, and (Java or Action) Script, but Adobe did not.
I am missing rich application functionality in HTML/CSS/JS GWT, but I cherish Java tools.


Then, again I realize I have been writing this and reading the Web the whole morning on iPhone, with my Mac book pro stuffed in the backpack next to me - laptops become simply obsolete for everyday users.


Sun is writing the JVM for iPhone and if Apple allows it, we can write apps in Java.

Objective-C may be powerful but is verbose, ugly, and does not have as much community support as Java, I am talking about frameworks, not the language itself.

I will wait for iPhone Java patiently while trying to warm myself to Objective-C.

Like me, people will want to use the fully-featured (Web) applications on their mobile devices.