/bill's House O Insomnia : Web Services / WSE

Looking for some .NET Developers

William — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:19:26 GMT

A client of mine located in the Aiken/Columbia South Carolina Area has asked me if I had any friends who are .NET Developers and looking for a job. They are looking for at least one Junior Developer, on Mid-Level Developer and several Senior developers. I know these folks quite well and I can vouch for the following:

They pay extremely well
Generous benefits package
There's plenty of cool people on their staff
They are growing at an explosive rate so there's plenty of room for upward mobility. There's also a very strong focus on learning/teaching and career development.
They are an Agile/SCRUM shop
Currently developing with the following technologies:

Visual Studio Team System 2008 / .NET 3.5 Framework
Windows Communication Foundation
Windows Presentation Foundation
ASP.NET
LINQ
Silverlight
Windows Mobile 5/ Windows Mobile 6/ .NET Compact Framework
Sql Server 2005 / Sql Server 2008
Windows Installer for XML
Sandcastle

If you're in the area and looking for a job... if you know someone who looking for a job.... or if you're willing to move, please drop me a line using the Contact option on my blog or emailing me directly at WilliamRyan@gmail.com and I'll put you in contact with them. They are looking to hire folks immediately so I can probably get you an interview within a few days.

Junior Developer:

Ideal candidate will be a recent college graduate with a Computer Science of MIS degree. No experience is necessary for this position. The main soft-skill qualifications for this position are:

A true love for development
Strong desire to learn
A desire to stand out among one's peers

The hard-skill qualifications include a good theoretical understanding of at least two of the following:

Object Oriented Design and Analysis
Relational Database theory
Design Patterns
Familiarity with at least two of the following: C, C++, Java, C#, VB.NET

This is essentially a dream job for recent college grads b/c the job is being offered "no experience required". Since they are a SCRUM/Agile shop, you'll get to work extensively with their Senior and Mid level devs via Pair Programming. You'll be able to pick an area to specialize in which you will decide on for yourself. Additionally, you'll be using some of the most sought after Microsoft technologies available. Go to Monster.com or Dice.com and see for yourself how much demand there is for the above technologies and how much those jobs pay. You'll get to work with these on day 1 and essentially carve out a path for yourself using whichever technologies you like the best. If you want to be a "UI" expert, that's where you'll be put. If you want to be a Web Services dev, again, that's what you can focus on. If you want to be an expert buildmaster who specializes in installers, that's what you'll get to do. The company is looking for some excellent candidates and willing to offer a really fun and great paying job with plenty of training and career development available.

Mid-Level Developer:

The ideal candidate will have a computer science or MIS degree and 1-3 years of development experience. The ideal candidate will have two or more the following abilities:

Solid command of OOP/OOD using C++, C#, Java or VB.NET
Test Driven Design
Service Oriented Architecture
Familiarity with MySql, Sql Server (T-SQL), Oracle (PL/SQL)
Basic understanding of both Winforms and ASP.NET
Basic familiarity with Web Services, MSMQ, Enterprise Services/COM+, .NET Remoting, DCOM, J2EE, Java Beans

Just like the Junior development positions, these ones will provide a great deal of flexibility to learn and specialize the area of your choice. These are considered 'fast track' positions to move into the Senior Developer or Architect roles

Senior Developer:

The ideal candidate will be someone with at least 4 years experience. This person will love challenges and love coming up with solutions to problems that other people run from. They will be people that love figuring out how to do things that everyone else said can't be done. They will be the stereotypical Alpha-Geek, Someone that spends their spare time answering quiz questions like these:

All of the requirements for the Mid-Level Developer as well as several of the following skills:

Proficiency with T-Sql or PL/SQL. You should be able to write a 5 table join on your own. You should have written several stored procedures that were > 100 lines long.
Strong command of query tuning and ability to easily spot design flaws
Ability to design 'real' objects.

Someone who pays meticulous attention to the scope modifiers of their classes/functions/properties
Someone who understands the problems associated with coupling and strives to avoid it.
Someone who can write and use events in their classes without thinking twice about it.
Someone with a solid understanding of thread safety and thread synchronization
Someone who is comfortable using several different design patterns
Someone who is comfortable implementing several different interfaces in one object, using combinations of interface implementation and inheritance and someone who can use inheritance responsibly

Keeps up with technology, reads computer books regularly, has favorite blogs in multiple disciplines and/or blogs themselves, attends or speaks at user's groups, is active in one or more online forum or newsgroup
Someone who answers "Which is better, C# or VB.NET?" with "Either can be better depending on the circumstances but I'm comfortable writing in either of them" and then "But I've been learning F# lately and it's really been growing on me"
Experience with .NET Remoting, Web Services & Web Services Enhancements, MSMQ, Enterprise Services and/or WCF
Ability to create syntactically correct UML diagrams (meaning they can do more than write the letters "UML" on their resume) and if not, they are willing to learn to do this.
Understands data structures solidly and could easily implement their own HashTable or LinkedList
Someone who's always looking to come up with a newer, cooler, faster, and more secure way to do implement something
Experienced with either Biztalk server or Sharepoint
Takes pride in their code without falling in love with it or getting all defensive about it. Ability to acknowledge the fact that everyone makes mistakes and can talk about their mistakes/bugs without getting defensive.
Someone who is the first to raise their hand whenever the boss says "I need someone to learn ____________, do I have any volunteers"

Basically, if you love development, love creating new cutting edge solutions all the while making a lot of money and having a lot of fun you definitely should talk to these folks. If you're interested...... Please drop me a line using the Contact option on my blog or emailing me directly at WilliamRyan@gmail.com and I'll put you in contact with them.

Could not complete the operation due to error 80041001

William — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 05:34:00 GMT

Just as an FYI about this... If you are using the documentation for WSE 3.0 and trying opening it after installing IE7 - you get an error with the following message "Could not complete the operation due to error 80041001" This is a total drag b/c all...(read more)

Do you have any ideas about preparation for 70-529?

William — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 02:30:00 GMT

As you may know, I'm coauthoring http://www.microsoft.com/learning/exams/70-529.asp . In particular, I'm covering the following objectives: Create and configure an XML Web service method. Create a public method. Attach the WebMethodAttribute attribute...(read more)

Enterprise Library is here!

William — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 04:13:00 GMT

Here's a link but I'm busy digging through it right now. Looks pretty darned cool though.

Service-Oriented Architecture & Web Services Best Practices - Atlanta GA

William — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:24:00 GMT

I just got to meet Mark Dunn the other night and really enjoyed talking to him. Looks like he'll be on DNR later this month and he's hosting a Work Shop on SOA in early February

Andres on Remoting Datasets...

William — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:40:00 GMT

Andres Aguiar , the superbrain behind Deklarit responds to Rory's comments on Stuart's post.

<<As I cannot comment in Stuart's blog, I'll do it here ;)

a) He's right about that if you are not going to update data, then it's probably not a good idea to use a DataSet, unless you only want to use it with .NET clients and are willing to pay the serialization overhead.

b) He's wrong with the DataSet/Database coupling one. A DataSet does not need to be coupled with the database, it can have any structure. I can return a DataSet even if I don't have a database in the backend.

c) The argument about sharing types is also weak. Check http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/default.aspx?date=2004-06-03 for an interesting point of view. In DCOM you _cannot_ invoke a service if you don't have the type. In WebServices with a DataSet, you can, even if you are in Java. Also, if you return a typed dataset, you don't need to have the same _type_ on the other side of the wire, just an equivalente DataSet. >>

Two WSE Books

William — Sun, 12 Dec 2004 03:14:00 GMT

Everything I ever needed to know about WSE I learned from Casey. Homeboy was sending DIME attachments around before most folks even knew WSE existed. Last March at MobileDevcon he gave a truly killer speech (even though I had the hit the Gentlemen's club alone b/c he had to get ready for the presentation).

Anyway, came across two books recently that are pretty cool on WSE 2.0. The first is Expert Web Services Security in the .NET Platform by Brian Nantz and Laurence Moroney. The second is Expert Service-Oriented Architecture In C#: Using the Web Services Enhancements 2.0 .

Either of the books is well worth the price on it's own, but I'd recommend getting them together. Anything you would want to do commercially with WSE will no doubt need to be secure and the Nantz/Moroney book does a great job on that subject. Just to make a point, Jeffrey's book is great- it walks you through a real world scenario that isn't trivial by any means. It's exactly the type of thing that you'd typically run across in a client engagement. It's thorough, extremely well written and just an overall great book. The Nantz/Moroney is roughly the exact same size and it concentrates exclusively on Security. And the nice part is that while the book is interspersed with 'general security' stuff, it's very target to Web Services security. Note- this isn't a book exclusively on WSE Security but the principle's apply equally in both scenarios.

Two great reads - only wish we could talk Mr Chesnut into writing a book ;-)

Amazon Web Service - Queues

William — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 03:25:00 GMT

Haven't gotten to play with it yet& but it sure looks cool. Anyone used it yet?