Since 1963, Management Science Associates, Inc. (MSA), has been an international leader in analytical software and information-based systems. With 850 employees and over 40 years of continual growth, MSA specializes in data management and data warehousing, business analysis, media services, and custom workflow integration and software. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, MSA also has offices in New York; Chicago; Atlanta; High Point, NC; China; United Kingdom; and Malaysia.

Job Description

* Designing and developing enterprise applications and webservices primarily in .NET using a number of the technologies specified as part of .NET Framework
* Write required technical specification documents
* Continuous interaction with clients
* Perform unit testing and integration testing
* Provide technical leadership to the Product Development team, working closely with Engineers, Tech Leads and Architects
* Ensure compliance with process and standards

Required Skills

* Requires a four-year degree in Computer Science/Information Technology, Computer/Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
* Minimum eight years of experience in systems analysis and programming, addressing unique issues of architecture and data management
* Must have the experience to work at the highest technical level of all phases of systems analysis and programming activity, including modeling language, across the full scope of software development cycle
* Qualified candidates should have knowledge and experience of development technologies including .NET Framework, WebServices architecture using .NET, XML, SOAP, Security.
* Experience with Java, J2EE, Java Swing, Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), Java Beans, Enterprise Java Beans, and other Object Oriented Development desired.
* VB and C++ experience is a plus
* JMS a plus
* Strong Knowledge of relational databases, Structured Query Language (SQL)
* Must have working knowledge of IIS and Weblogic Application Server
* UML
* Strong communication and technical skills
* Ability to work with a team towards a common goal

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Through its 100 locations located in Chicago and the suburbs, Resurrection Health Care provides comprehensive health care services with compassion and expertise. We invite a seasoned professional to become a valuable member of our web marketing team.

As part of our Web Marketing Department, you will be responsible for developing, maintaining, testing and supporting the Resurrection Health Care public website and its component subsites to meet customer needs, to promote the use of Resurrection Health Care services and to promote a positive image of the brand consistent with the mission, vision, values and strategic plan. Contributes to definition standards, guidelines and processes for software development and produces documentation for all development projects. In addition, you will create and develop dynamic web pages and site applications, assist the programming team in the applications development process to include analysis, design, programming and modification of end user applications and maintain relational databases. Use graphic, editorial and technology skills to ensure adherence to system graphic standards, editorial standards and system core values.

Requirements:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent; 3 plus years of web and web application development experience; proficient in CMFL programming including CFCs; Solid understanding of MSSQL, as well as other aspects of web development such as HTML, CSS, XHTML, etc. .Net and Farcy CMS is preferred. Knowledge of Cold Fusion, SQL Server and Java Script is preferred.

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With a large number of Web site design firms competing in the Chicago area, it really becomes a tough job for a client to choose between firms. The decision about which firm to choose is perhaps based on the customers perception of the firm or the nature of their work. Thus, firms today try to look and sound the most innovative and attractive to their customers.

Most of the Web site design firms are listed in the Chicago, Illinois Web Design Services Directory. This directory offers free listing in their directory of Web site firms. Using this resource, one can track down the perfect firm. Nearly 250 firms can be discovered using this service.

Some of the firms operating in the Chicago area include Gravitate Design Studio, SYDCON Web Development, Epsilonium Systems, Gizmo Design, 3DRex and AniRex Studios, Inc., Bravo Web Solutions, 7strategy, and Digital Evolution. These firms offer one or more Web site design solutio

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If you company is small or mid-size special products or materials exchange broker, you probably have custom in-house made exchange application. Nowadays exchange is done over the internet, so you might have advanced web-based exchange application. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains could play the role of the backend: accounting, sales and purchasing ordering, backordering, allocation, collection. In this case we expect tight integration between your exchange application and Great Plains. In this small article we consider industry / market niche specifics and the ways to realize these requirements:

• Exchange Transaction. Exchange transaction usually has two parts: Sales and Purchasing. This transaction should be translated into Great Plains as Sales Order in Sales Order Processing (SOP) and Purchase Order in Purchase Order Processing (POP). Assuming that you have web developers and C#, VB.Net programmers, you can deploy eConnect Distribution – this is Software Development Kit with sample codes, you can create or modify Great Plains objects, such as Sales Order, Customer record, Purchase Order, Vendor record. One warning about eConnect – it is designed based on general ERP application principles: you can create work transaction only – you can not post transaction, this is left for the Great Plains user

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Red Bank, NJ (PRWEB) August 28, 2008 — Privacyware (http://www.privacyware.com), an innovative provider of Web application security, intrusion prevention and security data analytic software, today announced a partnership with PC Stars, a diversified distributor of enterprise software and services that targets the China business market. PC Stars will distribute Privacyware’s full line of security software offerings but will initially feature Privacyware’s award-winning IIS Web Application Firewall and Host Intrusion Prevention solution, ThreatSentry, to address the global rise in SQL Injection, cross-site scripting and other Web-based threats targeting vulnerable web applications and host environments.

“We are excited to offer Privacyware’s award-winning ThreatSentry Web application firewall software to our customers,” said PCI Stars Product Manager, Matthew Zhou. “In our lab tests, ThreatSentry delivered a comprehensive range of security capabilities to protect IIS Web and database services. Combined with its simple management and affordable price, the ThreatSentry value proposition has resonated strongly with customers across the range of industry verticals.”

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Washington, DC (PRWEB) September 10, 2008 — WestLake Training and Development, a leading information technology training company based in Washington, DC, now offers a comprehensive Web technology overview course for managers with an emphasis on Web 2.0 via the company’s Virtual Classroom using the Saba Centra learning platform. In order for managers to work with a team of Web developers or participate in the development itself, they need to understand fundamental Web technology concepts that are inherent to most, if not all, Web development projects. Because this information is constantly changing, managers need to be able to leverage all of the new capabilities that modern Web technologies encompass.

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WestLake encourages attendance of the one-day Web Technology Overview course for Managers, Project Managers, and Web Administrators who are new to Web development, Analysts who participate in the Web development process, QA Specialists who execute tests related to Web applications, and Documentation Specialists who must produce supporting documentation related to Web applications.

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For the most part, the applications we cover on WWD are web applications. But every once in a while a desktop application comes along that’s worth consideration by dedicated web workers. Billings 3, the latest release of this time-tracking and invoicing application, is one such. If you’re using a Mac to do your work, and you need to track your time and create your own invoices, it’s definitely worth a look.

Certainly there are plenty of good web applications for this sort of thing, including FreshBooks, Zoho Invoice, Blinksale, Cashboard, and Harvest. But some people just don’t want to share their financial details over the web, no matter how much they trust a service - or they may want more flexibility and customization than most of the web applications provide.

Billings delivers well. It provides a variety of ways to enter time, and then helps you create great-looking invoices (with a whole pile of built-in templates and the ability to create your own). It also offers constant monitoring of your cashflow position, and lets you send statements or past due notices to slow-to-pay clients with just a few clicks.

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This is your chance to help shape the future of the creative industry around the world. crowd Spring (http://www.crowdspring.com) is building the world’s largest community of creatives, including graphics designers, photographers, writers, and others.

We’re looking for a Senior PHP Developer who is obsessed with best practices, Ghostbusters, web standards, the Hoff, textmate, burritos, and object-oriented software. We’re looking for someone who is tired of building things for other people and wants to be part of building a company, not just software. We’re looking for someone with a tattoo that reads ‘Open Source 4 ever’.

Have you written your own MVC framework (preferably in PHP)? Do you enjoy tweaking httpd.conf while analyzing ab in your spare time? If so, look no further.

What you’ll do:

- Tirelessly dream-up, collaboratively design and develop object-oriented code for our growing web application (already an award-winning site, but there is much yet to be done)

- Contribute to all aspects of a release (specification, design, development, testing)

- Benchmark and optimize application performance

- Help maintain and improve our development environments (LAMP/SVN)

- Push us to – nay, demand that we – embrace new technologies and continually deliver mind-blowing new features to our great community (our users come from nearly every country in the world)

What you’ll need to bring to the table:

- 5+ years OOP experience (PHP, Python, Ruby, etc.)

- 2+ years relational database experience (MySQL, SQL, Oracle)

- Experience with Linux servers and applications (web servers, mail servers, authentication, FTP)

- Plays nicely with others in a small group, warp-speed environment in close quarters

- An entrepreneurial heart

- Previous experience in an agile / scrum environment

- Experience with cloud (EC2) or virtualized (Xen) environments a plus

- If you have experience with XHTML, XML, XSLT, CSS, and JavaScript/AJAX, then we’ll like you

- If you have experience with content management frameworks (e.g. eZ Publish, django, Zend Framework, Ruby on Rails), then we’ll love you

- If you have all of the above, well – then we gotta have you

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Mashups are new and exciting aspects of Web 2.0. As is often the case with new technologies or approaches the industry often gets caught up in promoting the value proposition of what’s emerging. The hype often muddies the water between the value of what can be created with the new technology and the value of what exists today. With mashups, it’s often unclear to IT professionals how their existing Web applications might be different from the proposed innovative approach to mashing-up data with a browser.

One of the first questions that customers often ask is “What’s the difference between a mashup and the Web applications that we currently use in our enterprise today?” The difference has little to do with technology or the integration of systems. Instead, it reflects the ease with which the application can be created by users, how the application is intended to be used, and the lack of nonfunctional requirements (for example, reliability, availability, and performance) that need to be addressed after the mashup or Web application is deployed.

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