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.

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.

An early Christmas present from the Flex elves at Yahoo! Joseph Magnani, from Yahoo’s Media Innovation Group, has created a slick skin for Adobe Flex.

The skin is released under the BSD license, and includes the Adobe Illustrator files for the various images used, so you can tweak it or use it as the base for your own skins.

Download skin @ YDN

Yahoo! are once again looking for a raft of capable web developers to join the collective here in London, UK.

If you’re looking for something new and exciting, and you have a good knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript (any PHP, Flash, Flex etc. skills are a bonus) please send your CV or some details of your past work history, etc to steve [at] dynamicflash {dot} com. If you’re happy in your role but you know someone in the industry who’s looking for such a position, please do them a favour and send them my way.

Yahoo Europe’s web standards evangelist-in-chief Christian Heilmann is heading into unchartered territory - he’s going to give a presentation to a bunch of professional Flashers at Flashforum Konferenz 2007 in Cologne in September he’s calling Emancipated JavaScript and the Coming Out of the Flash community.

JavaScript developers discarded the stigmata of the “move stuff around, require certain browser settings and pop things up” days of DHTML and embraced Dom Scripting and later on Ajax taking over the web application world by storm. By now having JavaScript as an interest on your CV does not get you a confused shake of the head but is actually sought after by headhunters.

There are a lot of parallels in the misunderstandings of JavaScript as a technology in the past and those that keep Flash from being a mainstream developer technology and I will try to show them and offer options to set these straight.

For me, Christian has hit the nail on the head. I’m proud to be a Flash developer at Yahoo!, and I have the respect of all my web-standards-loving coworkers because they *really get* that Flash is a tool that, used properly, can really enhance the user’s experience. Christian’s aim is to help other Flashers around the world to “come out” and convince their standardista colleagues that Flash is not always evil. He’s also a great public speaker, so if you get the chance to go along then I’d recommend you check out Christian’s talk.