You missed an awesome presentation. Luckily, you can view the slides here. If you weren’t there, a quick summary of why you should definitely check it out:

Developing applications for mobile devices introduces a new set of challenges. Some of these challenges include learning new languages required for native platforms, developing for multiple devices, testing considerations, and more.

This presentation will focus on how you can leverage your existing web skills to build mobile web applications. The emphasis will be on developing mobile web applications once and running on multiple platforms using the jQuery Mobile framework. The application profiled – ICE mobile – is a real-time market data and trading app for ICE’s major markets.

Many thanks again for the crew that joined us before for dinner and drinks!!!

As the market continues to heat up this has been a growing conversation within our network: Contract vs. Permanent: what are you really giving up and gaining?

Long gone are the times where it’s commonplace for someone to stay at one company for their entire career. However, do people really leave their job all that often for a contract here or a contract there? The answer in the technical sector – YES.

First what are we really talking about: Permanent positions are full time, include benefits (typically including health care, vacation time, and retirement benefits within the company).  Contract we are referring to contract workers that are in it solely as a contractor –not a contract to hire set up or the “try before you commit mentality.” Often these people have their own corporations set up that they use and are the career contractors.

Permanent employees often have a sense of security in the job they have. During tough economic times many people saw the contractors as the first to go. As a permanent employee it’s common to feel as though the company is investing in you and your growth as an individual. However as we all saw in the wake of the financial crisis there isn’t always a real sense of security.

There is the plus to being a permanent employee that you aren’t in the constant job search mode. Going through interview process is not always fun, nor is everyone a good interviewer. So constantly networking with companies, recruiters, fellow job seekers and former colleagues can sound far to exhausting too many. So what’s the other side of the coin, why contract?

Contracting vs. Permanent comes down to a few main focal points:

• If you are unable to obtain your own health benefits then contracting is not something I would recommend. However, do a little investigation, look into your spouse’s employer; there might  be more options out there than you imagined and the head ache isn’t as bad as you fear.
• If you are looking to increase your technical abilities I would recommend contracting. While some companies invest in their developers, I will say on average it’s the contractors that have a more diverse skill set. You are able to pick and choose where you want your career to move and the technologies you want to work with. Not always will you get a project with the coolest technologies but let the recruiters out there know what you love, and they’ll keep you in mind. In addition you have the ability to put high profile clients on your resume that you wouldn’t necessarily be able to join if you were only a permanent employee.
• Be your own boss of your career. If that sounds exciting—contracting is certainly something to look into. Not only are you able to define and sharpen your skill sets, you also can play the salary/rate game a lot better. Asking your boss for a $10,000 raise usually doesn’t come nearly as quickly as increasing your hourly rate $5 from a project to the next project.

In the end it’s certainly a personal choice. Issues of family insurance, traveling, hours worked vs. hours paid are all issues that arise. In the technical industry it does appear companies and workers are moving more and more towards a contracting kind of world. Want to learn more – contact any of the recruiters under the “Meet our Sr. Recruiters” and they would be happy to walk you through the process.

Elizabeth Hill is part of the Senior Recruiting team @AnteoGroup. Find her on the “Get to know our Sr. Recruiters” page.

Hey everyone! We wanted to get this post out today so that all of you can plan accordingly.

Our favorite Tuesday is right around the corner — tomorrow is AJUG meet up! Check out the post below on more information about AJUG (http://www.ajug.org/confluence/display/AJUG/Home)

We’ll be talking Mobile Development and how to navigate around all the different mobile devices and platforms. This is a not only a cool relevant topic but also the company presenting has been all over the news recently. Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is a global leader in innovation and technology. They are the leading regulated exchanges, trading platforms and clearing house serving a global market (www.theice.com). Most recently they have been all over the news in their conversations with Nasdaq to make a bid on the NYSE Euronext.

Our two presenters are known around the Atlanta Technology Scene: Edwin Marcial, Sr. VP and CTO for ICE and Mark Eagle, Director of Web Development at ICE.

As always we will also be meeting at La Botana (2071 Savoy Drive, Chamblee, GA 30341-1213 - directions here) at 5:15 for drinks/dinner before the presentation. Please join us – free food and good company Can’t wait to see everyone! Hit us up if you have any questions – ehill@anteogroup.com

The Anteo Crew

Our client is looking for a sharp, well experienced PHP Developer to join their team on an initial contract through December 31, 2011.  For this role, experience is required with the following:

Required Skills:

• 5+ years experience with PHP / LAMP Application Development (PHP, Perl, Python)
• 3+ years experience with Relation Database Systems (MySQL, Sybase)
• 3+ years experience with Unix / Linux Operating System
• 2+ years experience with HTML/CSS/DHTML/JavaScript
• 2+ years experience with Apache Web Servers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Candidate must be an energetic, self-motivated problem solver who works well in a team.
• Requires a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Related Field

Desired Skills:

• Experience with PHP MVC Frameworks (Zend)
• Experience with XML, XSLT, JASON, Ajax, Web Services, Cross-Browser Compatibility and Version Control systems
• Experience with page templating systems, session data storage, caching, and inter-process communication.
• Experience developing large-scale web applications
• Understanding of professional software development processes. Including familiarity with the cycles of requirements definition, issue tracking, version control, automated testing, deployment and maintenance.

*** Please contact Kipp Ramsey for more information. You can call me at 404-897-5152 or send your resume to kramsey@anteogroup.com ***

Our client, located in Alpharetta, GA, is looking for multiple Solutions Architects to join their team on a contract to hire basis or direct hire basis. Excellent salary and benefits included! We are currently looking for senior level solutions architects who have a passion for designing and building new applications and working with conventional as well as emerging technologies. We place heavy focus on recruiting only those who enjoy writing code, can express technical opinions, solve problems and can contribute to our common vision to maintain our significant lead in the marketplace for loyalty and payment based financial services.

From technical standpoint, our emphasis is on building applications that are simple, clean and represent the letter and spirit of lightweight application architecture. Our technical environment is diverse, employing both conventional and emerging technologies such as Java 5/6, Freemarker, JQuery, iBatis, Spring/Spring MVC, Puppet, Python, Linux and Oracle. Likewise, we do not employ certain technologies that we feel are heavy and create unnecessary complexity.

Skills/Attributes
Coder at heart with deep understanding of application architecture and design
Ability to multi-task and utilize a broad array of technologies and frameworks
Spring/SpringMVC or other IoC container
JMS or other messaging helps but not required
JDBC/ORMs
Web Services helps but not required
Dev Tools – Eclipse, Ant, Subversion, JBoss
Class and package design
Data security protocols and techniques
Experience working with web based apps, batch systems and/or real-time processing
Unit and performance testing using JUnit
Detail-oriented
Consultative and team-oriented
Strong written and verbal communication
Excellent work ethic
Knowledge of various scripting languages like python, ruby or others is a plus, but not required

Experience
Bachelors degree in CS required
7 years software development experience
4 years JEE development experience
Experience leading small development teams/projects is a plus, but not required

*** Please contact Drake Gordon for more information. You can call me at 404-897-5152 or send your resume to dgordon@anteogroup.com ***