My next steps will be showing connecting corridors between buildings, but feel free to send me comments or suggestions on the map.

Still on the fence about buying it? There is a free HTML version available on the book’s website for you to preview and read, and 25% of the revenue from book sales will go to Engineering Without Borders. The book is also available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike license.

Tired of opportunities for career growth? Enjoy not knowing what the impact your work has on your company? Wish more people would ignore your good ideas?

We didn’t think so.

This is a unique opportunity to join a young company where you won’t just enjoy the work and culture, you’ll be able to (and be expected to) drive it personally.

Nulogy is an entrepreneurial company based in downtown Toronto. We offer a challenging, flat, and fast-paced workplace, where your peers are very intelligent, hard-working, and light-hearted. There are outstanding opportunities for career advancement and potentially immense long-term rewards.

Some Key Points on Nulogy

The Nulogy Experience
Nulogy has set itself apart in the industry with its high level of customer service. Customers have publicly lauded us as “refreshing”, “great to work with”, “flawless execution”, and having “set themselves apart”. Our reputation for delivering high-quality projects on-time and on-budget has already spread through the industry despite our youth. However, there is still plenty of room for improvement, and we’re looking for someone who can take a leadership role in further refining and improving the Nulogy Experience for our customers.

Achievements
We were recently recognized by Supply & Demand Chain Executive as one of the 100 Leading Supply Chain Solution Providers and have been recognized as a Company with Extraordinary Potential (CWEP) by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Products
We are aggressively developing sophisticated software for operational intelligence and enterprise profit management. Our flagship offering is in the new and growing area of packaging performance management. We feel that our patent-pending technology is the critical element holding back the tide of real-time business intelligence (BI) and business activity management (BAM) software. Our serious research has been supported by the federal government, and has involved simulated-annealing, and grid-computing technology for example.

Management
Nulogy was founded by a team of Systems Design Engineers from the University of Waterloo, and a professor with extensive research and consulting experience. Our complementary skill sets include experience in international business development, strategic planning at Microsoft, software development for RIM, and top-of-the-class academics. A strong team means strong execution, and in the end, that’s even more important than good ideas.

Clients
Nulogy’s clients are across North America and Europe and include global blue-chip companies.

Technology
We are improving the way software is developed. We have found great success with the Extreme Programming development process. We rigorously use test-driven development (TDD), mock-objects, refactoring, and pair-programming to rapidly and efficiently develop high quality software. We have several new projects requiring skills in new Rich Internet Application technologies such as Seam, OpenLaszlo, Echo2, Google Web Toolkit, Ruby on Rails, and DOJO.

Senior Rich Internet Application Developer

Job Duties

The role of Software Engineer at Nulogy is different. No tossing responsibilities like hot-potato; it is everyone’s job to make sure the product meets the customer’s needs. At Nulogy, software engineers all do the following:

• Architecture: Deciding high-level product architectures, choosing appropriate technologies
• Design: Deciding optimal solutions to particular implementation challenges
• Testing: Writing automated unit and acceptance tests before you code
• Development: Writing and maintaining production code
• Communicate with customers: Fluid communication with actual customers
• Research: Avidly research and/or develop new technologies that have the potential to help Nulogy’s business

Qualifications

Required:

• Experience developing web applications
• Strong knowledge of Java and/or Rich Internet Application technologies
• Object Oriented Design and Design Patterns
• Ability to work in an unstructured environment, and make decisions under uncertainty
• Ability to learn quickly and remember, and be open-minded and flexible
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Technical Skills Desired:

• JBoss
• Apache
• EJB 3.0
• Ajax/Javascript
• Seam
• Facelets
• JSF
• Eclipse Web Tools
• Linux
• PHP

Assets:

• Experience working on or leading open-source projects
• Interest in and/or ability to develop optimization algorithms for industrial engineering problems
• Leadership and Management skills
• Extreme Programming experience
• Eclipse/Eclipse RCP
• Database/Data warehouse design and administration
• Web 2.0 Technologies: (AJAX, OpenLaszlo/Flex, Flash/ActionScript, EXT, Echo2, GWT, Thinwire, Web Services, J2EE, etc.)
• Experience with web applications like Joomla and MediaWiki
• Software security experience
• Ant, Maven, CruiseControl, or automated build technologies
• Sense of humour
• Intermediate Foosball abilities

Solution Services Professional

Job Duties

As part of the Professional Services Team, you will become the primary contact for many of our most important customers. This means you will drive the Nulogy customer experience, whether it be establishing credibility, making a customer feel comfortable with a new concept, turning on the light bulb for a user, or winning over a stubborn stakeholder. At Nulogy, you will be part of a small team doing the following:

• Product Deployment: Working independently to thoroughly and efficiently implement successful solutions
• Customer Support: Providing post-deployment support
• Project Management: Fluid communication with actual customers, or an internal customer representative
• Collaborate with Engineering: Prioritize needs to the engineering team, and understand their challenges
• Requirements Gathering: Listening and persistently exploring requirements to gain deep understanding
• Sales Support: Contributing to sales meetings by drawing on your project or product experience

Qualifications

Required:

• Experience working directly with customers in a consulting and/or professional services capacity
• Experience with using enterprise software applications at a technical level
• Aptitude for breaking down and solving complex problems
• Be a darn likable person
• Willingness and interest to travel, sometimes for more than a week at a time
• Ability to work independently and under pressure
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

Technical Skills Desired:

• SQL
• Apache
• JBoss
• PostgreSQL
• HTML/CSS
• MDX
• BIRT & JasperReports
• Linux

Assets:

• Sales experience
• Interest in and/or ability to develop optimization algorithms for industrial engineering problems
• Leadership and management skills
• Experience with software design and usability concepts
• Experience with database & system administration
• Sense of humour
• Good (but not too good) proficiency at golf

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I’ve been using delicious for my own bookmarks, so the links on this page will be phased out in favour of more unique links.

I’m also happy to report that this is one of the first times that my content was completely preserved between upgrades, so the entire previous history of posts and comments have been maintained.

The really great thing about the night was the fact that Conan O’Brien of late-night fame was hosting. Watch the two hilarious opening videos found here and here.

Time for something different.

A new type of street performance has hit the streets of New York City. It’s called “Improv Everywhere”, and they really do mean everywhere. The site describes these goals of Improv Everywhere is to “causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places.”

It was created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, and Improv Everywhere has executed over 50 missions involving hundreds of undercover agents.

You’re probably still wondering what they do, right?

Well, the latest mission that the team pulled off was called, “Slo-Mo Home Depot”, and is currently being made famous by none other then YouTube (is there anyone that website doesn’t help?) For a full list of their so-called “Missions”, simply click here. If you live in New York City, and want to participate in one of their experimental events, visit their contatct page.

Now who wants to start up a Toronto branch?