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Developers, System Engineers, Project Managers, Senior Development….. GET YOUR RESUMES OUT!… and then send them to  c m o h n e y (at) b b o o k (dot) c o m

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Lead Architect/Developer Position
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BlackBook Media Corp is seeking an ambitious individual for the position of Systems Engineer.

BlackBook Media is the insiders’ guide to style and culture. We deliver our fashion and entertainment guides through mobile applications, BBook.com, pocket-sized city guide books and a visually arresting magazine. BlackBook is expanding its digital offerings across multiple platforms and seeking the talent to do so.

This is a key role in our development organization, involving some management, but the primary job focus is on writing solid code, designing smart systems, and helping guide the rest of the team to do so too. While professional experience is a welcomed attribute to any candidate, the most important requirements are intelligence, dedication and the ability to have fun working in a constructive and fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:
.    Lead and review fast-paced development of a small team of PHP developers, including code review, mentoring, and most importantly, actively writing code
.    Make key technical architecture decisions for a well-developed but rapidly evolving custom CMS, API, and client frontend applications on multiple platforms
.    Design, develop, and maintain server-side applications for high capacity and high availability (HA)
.    Work with Systems Engineer to plan for scalability, test capacity, and ensure security of all applications
.    Understand business needs and long-term goals and communicate development needs and progress with senior management
.    Set code standards and best practices for all systems and languages, including fastidious management of SVN repositories
.    Communicate technical information with third-party developers, agencies, and blue-chip clients on forthcoming and already-in-the-wild projects

Skills:
.    Expert in OO PHP5
.    Well-versed in MVC architecture (Symfony in particular)
.    Experience managing and mentoring developers
.    Previous work on a large-scale site
.    Strong knowledge of version management with SVN or similar
.    Experience with MySQL optimization, bottlenecks, and replication
.    Ability to effectively communicate complex technical issues with clients and senior management
.    Prototype/Scriptaculous and/or general Javascript ability
.    Comfortable with common Linux administration tasks
.    Knowledge of Service-Oriented Architecture principles
.    Experience with common scaling, caching and performance tools (memcached, Varnish, CDNs, etc)
.    API design/implementation (huge plus)
.    Some experience with C and PHP internals (plus)
.    Ruby (plus)
.    Amazon EC2/S3/CloudFront integration (plus)


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Systems Engineer Position
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BlackBook Media Corp is seeking an ambitious individual for the position of Systems Engineer.

BlackBook Media is the insiders’ guide to style and culture. We deliver our fashion and entertainment guides through mobile applications, BBook.com, pocket-sized city guide books and a visually arresting magazine. BlackBook is expanding its digital offerings across multiple platforms and seeking the talent to do so.

BlackBook Media is looking for a Systems Engineer to join a small team on the continued development of several software development projects. While professional experience is a welcomed attribute to any candidate, the most important requirements are intelligence, dedication and the ability to have fun working in a constructive and fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:
.    Maintain complex cluster of Linux web, frontend cache, and database servers
.    Primary decision-maker for hardware and platform decisions for rapidly growing content site and SaaS/API service
.    Plan and maintain high-availability (HA) in support of multiple strict SLAs
.    Work with frontend and backend developers to improve scalability and redundancy of all systems
.    Streamline developer and QA environments through aggressive automation of common tasks
.    Daily maintenance and monitoring of servers
.    Capacity planning and testing for existing and new services/sites
.    Maintain and test disaster recovery plans

Skills:
.    Strong Linux (RHEL/CentOS) system administration
.    Previous work on a high-traffic, high-availability site
.    Amazon Web Services (EC2/S3/CloudFront in particular)
.    Build automation tool experience for PHP (Phing, Pake or Maven)
.    Monit and/or Nagios monitoring setup
.    MySQL administration, performance tuning, and replication
.    Apache configuration, monitoring, and tuning
.    Shell scripting for automation of common tasks
.    Knowledge of object-oriented PHP5
.    Experience with the Varnish HTTP proxy (or similar) - a plus
.    Strong knowledge of Ruby - a plus
.    Knowledge of message queues (ActiveMQ, Rabbit, Starling/Kestrel, etc) - a plus


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Senior Development and Project Manager Position
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BlackBook Media Corp is seeking an ambitious individual for the position of Senior Development/Project Manager.

BlackBook Media is the insiders’ guide to style and culture. We deliver our fashion and entertainment guides through mobile applications, BBook.com, pocket-sized city guide books & a visually-arresting monthly magazine. The BlackBook Guides for iPhone is the premiere insider source for the lowdown on the shining culinary stars, dimly lit dive bars, and everything in between in loads of fashionable cities around the world.    

We’re a small team that undertakes projects with the zeal and ability of a much larger department. Our team tackles development on a swiftly growing suite of products, both in sophistication and number. We are seeking an individual to take on the role of overseeing that the development cycle of each of these products is executed efficiently, bug-free and on time.

Responsibilities:

* Drive and coordinate successful development of software products utilizing Agile and Behavioral Software Development methodologies.
* Define software development processes and oversee that those processes are adhered to throughout the entire software development cycle.
* Work both with development team and business stakeholders to ensure software products meet customer expectations within expected timeframes.
* Maintain strict documentation of processes and deliver regular, thorough status reports to managers and other stake.
* Identify and address development cycle inefficiencies including staff weaknesses, development tool bottlenecks and internal communication breakdowns.
* Introduce and implement proven managerial tools for Agile Software Development.
* Identify and address development cycle inefficiencies including staff weaknesses, development tool bottlenecks and internal communication breakdowns.
* Introduce and implement proven managerial tools for Agile Software Development methodologies.
* Maintain team focus and moral while enforcing strict schedules focused on productivity, not long hours.
* Ensure staff is adhering to defined engineering standards such as and not limited to documentation, code check-in/check-out procedures, design reviews and architectural standards
* Assist in preparing detailed analyses, plans, diagrams, and verification procedures for existing and proposed applications.
* Assist in the planning, scheduling, and assigning of development and platform engineering projects.
* Participate in all stages of the software development lifecycle, including requirements capture, writing, testing, and debugging programs.
* Manage

Requirements:

* 3-5 years experience managing development with mid to large-sized teams of enterprise-class software applications.
* Strong understanding of Agile Development Methodologies
* Strong understanding of popular software development languages and application frameworks.
* Excellent written and verbal communications skills
* Strict adherence to development standards.
* Familiarity with SOA principles and architecture experience along with 1-2 years of experience in SOA will be plus.
* Experience with the LAMP development environment.
* Experience with Subversion or another version control system - a plus.
* Knowledge of the Symfony PHP framework - a plus
* Experience with Relational Databases
* Familiarity with the latest trends in web application development, new products and mobile standards.



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Internship!! @ BlackBook!

BlackBook Media Corp is seeking an ambitious individual for the position of Editorial/Video Intern.

BlackBook Media is the insiders’ guide to style and culture. We deliver our fashion and entertainment guides through mobile applications, BBook.com, pocket-sized city guide books and a visually arresting magazine. BlackBook is expanding its digital offerings across multiple platforms and seeking the talent to do so.

This is a key role in our Editorial Department, with a focus on magazine and blog post writing and editing, but the primary job focus is on the ability to create short online videos of our shoots and supplemental material from our creative content. While previous experience is a welcomed attribute to any candidate, the most important requirements are dedication, a keen interest in user created video, and the ability work with programs like iMovie to edit short content.

Candidates should be interested in publishing, online software, social media, and especially video and the production of short videos.

The perfect intern is one who has their own youtube channel, who sees every instance as an opportunity to create a short video, who can thrive in a fast paced environment, and is willing to learn as well as teach.

Send a short note along with any link to your video work. Please specify what program you use to create your video content. Salary: This is an unpaid internship, optional for school credit

email me at c a y t e (at) b b o o k . c o m

2010 Resolution Number 1

Detoxify my bod.. after reading this, you’ll be inspired to do the same:

1. Canned Tomatoes

The expert: Fredrick vom Saal, PhD, an endocrinologist at the University of Missouri who studies bisphenol-A

The resin linings of tin cans contain bisphenol-A, a synthetic estrogen that has been linked to ailments ranging from reproductive problems to heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. Acidity — a prominent characteristic of tomatoes — causes BPA to leach into your food.

2. Corn-Fed Beef

The expert: Joel Salatin, co-owner of Polyface Farms and author of books on sustainable farming

Cattle were designed to eat grass, not grains. But farmers today feed their animals corn and soybeans, which fatten up the animals faster for slaughter. A recent comprehensive study found that compared with corn-fed beef, grass-fed beef is higher in beta-carotene, vitamin E, omega-3s, conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), calcium, magnesium, and potassium.

3. Microwave Popcorn

The expert: Olga Naidenko, PhD, a senior scientist for the Environmental Working Group

Chemicals, including perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), in the lining of the bag, are part of a class of compounds that may be linked to infertility in humans. In animal testing, the chemicals cause liver, testicular, and pancreatic cancer. Studies show that microwaving causes the chemicals to vaporize — and migrate into your popcorn.

4. Nonorganic Potatoes

The expert: Jeffrey Moyer, chair of the National Organic Standards Board

Root vegetables absorb herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides that wind up in soil. In the case of potatoes they’re treated with fungicides during the growing season, then sprayed with herbicides to kill off the fibrous vines before harvesting. After they’re dug up, the potatoes are treated yet again to prevent them from sprouting.

5. Farmed Salmon

The expert: David Carpenter, MD, director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany

Nature didn’t intend for salmon to be crammed into pens and fed soy, poultry litter, and hydrolyzed chicken feathers. As a result, farmed salmon is lower in vitamin D and higher in contaminants, including carcinogens, PCBs, brominated flame retardants, and pesticides such as dioxin and DDT.

6. Milk Produced with Artificial Hormones

The expert: Rick North, project director of the Campaign for Safe Food at the Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility

Milk producers treat their dairy cattle with recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH or rBST, as it is also known) to boost milk production. But rBGH also increases udder infections and even pus in the milk. It also leads to higher levels of a hormone called insulin-like growth factor in milk. In people, high levels of IGF-1 may contribute to breast, prostate, and colon cancers.

7. Conventional Apples

The expert: Mark Kastel, codirector of the Cornucopia Institute

If fall fruits held a “most doused in pesticides contest,” apples would win. And increasing numbers of studies are starting to link a higher body burden of pesticides with Parkinson’s disease.