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The Acronym Soup Phenomenon (ASP) is what many techies fall victim to when putting together their resumes. An engineering manager of a Southern California Internet company explains why listing any and all technologies and programming languages that you've ever come in contact with could be hurting your chances of getting an interview.



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Barcamp Los Angeles 3 Coming Up!

I'll be missing Saturday due to a prior engagement, but will be at Barcamp Los Angeles 3 Sunday, hoping to attend a lot of good sessions.

I had a blast at last year's Barcamp LA... That prezo tried to convey hopes we could soon stop relying on phone numbers to communicate with each-other, with all Web documents encoding SIP contact information in microformats, ready to be picked-up by smarter devices that could not only read that information, but also store it in their local address book, and enable the user to contact a person over SIP. One key reason we're still somewhat shackled to phone companies today, is that we depend on phone numbers.

Back then, I was working at EarthLink. After 8 good years there, last November, I joined Internet Brands, Inc, trading a 1+ hour commute each way for ... 15 minutes each way, and opening-up a new chapter in my career, with a brand new set of challenges and opportunities.

2007 should be a wild ride for IB. And we'll be needing more help. With this in mind, we'll be sponsoring Barcamp LA 3, hoping to connect with the L.A. geek community. We're hiring!

See also: Seeking Web User Interface Engineer.

Also hiring: Manager of Search Engine Optimization

Also hiring: Java Developer

Seeking a User Interface Engineer

This position was recently posted to the IB careers site. Here's the description I drafted-up:

The Company

Internet Brands is a leading operator of media and e-commerce sites for "large ticket" consumer purchases, such as cars and mortgages. Our sites include CarsDirect.com, LoanApp.com, Loan.com, RealEstateABC.com, Wikitravel.com, Vamoose.com and others within the auto, mortgage and travel verticals. We empower consumers to make better product choices and save money by providing them with superior content and knowledge.

Basics

We're seeking a Web User Interface Engineer to join a growing team of outstanding coders hard at work building useful, profit-generating, game-changing applications.

Projects might range from maintaining, enhancing existing applications to building new ones, covering a wide range of domains.

Required Qualifications

A qualified candidate will demonstrate a ferocious enthusiasm for clean, semantic, accessible, interoperable markup that validates, as well as ability to leverage some of these concepts to promote increased search engine visibility.

Beyond markup, a qualified candidate will demonstrate outstanding mastery of CSS to execute on our Creative Department's design guidance, and collaborate with Creative and Product Management, to suggest and prototype usability-enhancing considerations where applicable.

Candidates must be prepared to provide code samples, and/or write code during the interviewing process.

Additional Qualifying Considerations

• Strong communication skills
• Experience working in teams
• Familiarity and proven track-record dealing with Win/IE and other browser quirks in CSS and DOM
• Demonstrated JavaScript mastery
• Demonstrated XmlHttpRequest mastery
• Demonstrated DOM mastery.
• Demonstrated DOM Events mastery
• Familiarity with Cross-Site Scripting issues.
• Strong understanding of HTTP.
• Familiarity with Source-Control: svn, cvs.
• Experience working with DWR a plus.
• Experience with Microformats a plus

Interested? Tell me why. Send a note to my first name dot my last name at internetbrands dot com. Or just apply here.

We've also got a position open for a PHP developer. We've filled the PHP position, for now, but do keep an eye on the IB careers site.