Our company, FirstDIBZ (www.firstdibz.com) offers rewarding opportunities for motivated, creative, and results-oriented technology professionals based on our niche market application and proprietary technologies.

We have a highly-specialized full SDLC team which uses core Java language programming to create customer-facing web applications for internal and external use. Our team designs, creates, and implements best solutions to meet business objectives and needs, implementing new and emerging technologies to support the development cycle.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop server side components specific to financial transaction systems using Java and related open-source/enterprise technologies.

• Collaborate with other members in performing full lifecycle software development, including gathering business requirements, design, coding, documentation, testing and QA, release and implementation, and maintenance.

• Research, test and recommend new technologies to support development objectives.

• Assist in the translation of business requirements into supporting documentation, following appropriate development methodologies and standards, and developing reliable, scalable, and quality applications.

• Increase the performance, reliability, and efficiency of legacy systems.

• Respond to and resolve release/deployment and client issues.

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Relational databases are really great for storing and retrieving data, but sometimes, they aren’t quite up to the task. Joe Celko, whose SQL for Smarties books are among my favorites, dedicated an entire volume to the issue of trees and hierarchies. These data structures might be common and useful in most programming languages, but they can be difficult to model as tables, particularly if you care about efficient use of the database. Things become even trickier if you’re dealing with a number of related, but distinct, types of entities, such as different types of employees or different types of vehicles.

One way to solve this problem is not to use relational databases. Objects can be quite good at handling trees and arrays, as well as inheritance hierarchies. Furthermore, object databases do exist, and the Python-based Zope application framework has demonstrated that it’s even possible to have object databases in production. Gemstone’s demonstration of Ruby running on top of its Smalltalk VM, with its accompanying object database, means that Ruby programmers soon might have access to similar technology.

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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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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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