Sunday, 3 September 2006
Work for Furl or Hack on Simpy 
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How about I do a little promo for Furl, one of Simpy's competitors? They have been trying to hire engineers for a few months now. I keep seeing their job ads. If you have matching skills and want to work for a publically traded company (LOOK), this may be a good opportunity. Their stock is almost at their 52-week low, so options will be cheap.
On the other hand, if you don't want a new full-time job right now, but would like to hack on some social/tagging/search software, let me know.
Simpy has a few tens of thousand users, several million bookmarks, and about five times that many tags, numerous groups, watchlists, watchlist filters, notes, etc., so there is plenty of data to play with. Contrary to the popular belief, Simpy is a one man show, which means "will hack for fun, fame and maybe fortune, not salary".
What does it take to work on Simpy? Solid Java skills, knowledge of SQL, experience with Hibernate, Lucene, familiarity with Struts (yeah, unbelievable) and JSTL. Neatness - I hate messy code, even if it does the job correctly. Experience with distributed server setups and scalable architectures is a plus. If you are interested, inquire within. Of course, who's got time for such extracurricular activities.
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