Dynamic Flash

We’re currently looking for two Junior Web Developers to join the infamous Yahoo! web development team in London. Email steve@dynamicflash.com with a subject of Y! Junior Web Developer position attaching a recent CV if you’re interested.

Job description follows after the break.

Yahoo! Junior Web Developer — Job Description

As the world’s number one Internet brand Yahoo! delivers news, entertainment, information and fun to over a half billion people every day. Our European web development team, based in London, is seeking standards-savvy front-end developers to work on Europe’s busiest sites.

You should be able to provide examples of your work showing use of progressive enhancement techniques (e.g. unobtrusive scripting), and clear separation of structure, presentation and behaviour layers.

Required Skills

• Hand-coded (X)HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Solid knowledge of standards-based, accessible, cross-browser web development
• PHP programming skills
• User-level experience with BSD/Linux
• Experience using version control systems such as CVS & Subversion

Desirable Skills

• Client– and server–side performance optimisation techniques
• Search engine optimisation
• Experience in developing web applications with rich client interfaces using AJAX, drag and drop, and other DOM Scripting techniques.
• Experience with JavaScript libraries, especially the YUI
• Experience of Web Services (eg REST, SOAP, XML-RPC)
• Knowledge of web site internationalisation issues and experience developing web sites in multiple languages particularly in Europe.
• Use of the following technologies: XML/XSLT, Perl, Microformats, JSON, Flash/Flex
• Experience developing functionality/applications by assembling existing code modules

Responsibilities

You will work closely with Information Architects, Visual Designers, User Researchers, Software Engineers, and Product Managers to ensure that our web based products in Europe provide the best possible experience for our users.

Aral has finally taken the wraps off of his super-secret Singularity project:

Singularity is the first large-scale online web conference in the world.

Singularity is over 100 of the world’s top web visionaries, developers, designers, thought leaders, and celebrities.

Singularity is three days of talks over multiple tracks.

In 2008, Singularity will define Web ‘08.

I’m proud to say that I’ve signed up as a speaker for the event. My session, however, is an absolute secret that I will not divulge to anyone before the time is right. Okay, okay… I’m not 100% sure what my session is going to be just yet, but I’ve got until mid-october to sort something out. My experience working at Yahoo! - trying to bring together the best from the Flash/Flex work with the best from the HTML/CSS/JS standards world - is sure to give me a unique view on something, right?

If there’s something specific you want to hear about, let me know via the comments.

My colleagues in the Yahoo! Flash Platform team recently released version 1.1 of the Yahoo! Astra library. The library includes a whole bunch of brand-spanking new Flex and Flash components, as well as updates and bug fixes for the existing Flash components

All of this stuff is available now under a BSD-style license. Check out the official announcement or get straight to the goodies at the Astra Component Library section of the Yahoo! Developer Network.

PS. Yes I know I’m a little (okay, almost 2 weeks) behind the times with this information. However, since I know that a number of people come here to get their fix of Flash/Yahoo! news I thought I ought to mention something about the release, however belated.

I started to write a long post about why Microsoft’s proposal to fix web standards with a proprietary meta tag / header is both utterly futile and offensive to developers that care about web standards. Mike Davies, a fellow Yahoo! and one of the best guys you could hope to meet, has said everything I wanted to say - much more eloquently than I tend to be when ranting, I might add - in his End of line Internet Explorer article.

The biggest barrier to Microsoft adopting web standards is Microsoft’s own clients, or rather Microsoft’s promise to them of backwards compatibility. They have a plan to solve this, but it demands that web developers sacrifice the future compatibility of their sites.

Having spent most of the evening reading various blog posts on this debacle, it’s interesting to see how Microsoft have managed to divide the opinions of leading members the web standards community so fiercely. I wonder who might benefit from such a situation?

Read Mike’s article in full

Just a little note to say that I’ve just launched the Foundation ActionScript 3.0 book companion site at foundationas3.com.

There’s precious little there at the moment except some illustration errata for Chapter 14: Flex by Example, but I hope to build this into a site full of great resources for readers and prospective readers of the book.