Web Standards, Accessibility & More

Here are some great job openings in the web development and computer software industries in the San Francisco Bay area.

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Featured Positions

Job Title

JavaScript Engineer

Summary

Seeking top-notch JavaScript Engineers with strong CS fundamentals who feel at home developing high-quality web products that reach millions of users.

Company

Not Provided

Location

Mountain View, California, U.S.A.

Skills

• Work toward weekly milestones on high-visibility, high-quality web products.
• Meet with team to assess feasibility and priority of new features.
• Participate in testing regularly scheduled releases.
• Collaborate with server-side engineers to optimize scalability and network efficiency.
• Object-oriented JavaScript experience.
• Previous experience with the following web technologies: DHTML, CGI and CSS.
• Previous experience with at least one scripting language (eg. Bash, Perl, or Python).
• Experience working with large web frameworks such as Dojo, prototype.js and Rico.
• Phenomenal debugging principles.
• Computer Science Degree or equivalent.

Contact

Nicole Blincoe, Mainz Brady Group

resumes[AT]mainzbradygroup[NOSPAM][dot]com

1-650-524-8845

Reference JO#NB4422

Job Title

PHP Web Developer

Summary

If you are a mid to senior level Web Developer with extensive PHP experience, please read on!

Location

Mountain View, California, U.S.A.

Company

Not Provided

Skills

• Extensive PHP development experience
• Experience designing and building highly scalable software used by millions of users
• Extensive experience programming in PHP, JavaScript, HTML, AJAX, CSS
• Experience with HTTP, SQL, TCP/IP – Solid Object-Oriented Programming experience
• Experience with REST, JSON, and API/Web-Services is a plus

Compensation

Excellent compensation package (salary $120-$130,000).

Excellent benefits package.

Work with cutting edge technology.

Great opportunity!

Contact

Craig Radke, CyberCoders

Craig.Radke[AT]CyberCoders[NOSPAM][dot]com

The Listings

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So I’ve become familiar with questions that tech companies ask when interviewing candidates for web developer positions in “Silicon Valley” in California. So if you’re interviewing, you should prep yourself for the following interview questions that always seem to come up:

• What JavaScript libraries have you used? (And for YUI, which seems to be popular, which components have you used?)
• What’s the difference between “if (a==x)” and “if (a===x)”?
• Have you developed CSS for different browsers and versions? What are some examples of issues you’ve had? (i.e. box model)
• How do you keep up on web technology? (books, blogs, etc.)
• Use this text editor to properly properly markup this form from memory (with XHTML, CSS, JavaScript).
• Use this text editor to properly properly markup this table from memory (with XHTML).
• What’s the difference between “visibility:hidden” and “display:none”?
• What’s the difference between using var inside and outside of a JavaScript function? (or an exercise involving this)
• How would you write the HTML and CSS for a standard three-column layout with header and footer?

Guess what? Adobe’s Dreamweaver CS4 Beta is available! And I’m just getting used to CS3! New features include:

• Live View
• Code Navigator
• CSS best practices
• Code hinting for Ajax and JavaScript frameworks
• HTML data sets
• Photoshop Smart Objects
• Subversion integration
• AIR support
• New user interface

jQuery is a great JavaScript library for fast, easy development. I met the creator John Resig at a conference last year. He’s a great guy, and I even “won” a nice jQuery book.

jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages

Here’s a good overview slide show on jQuery:

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Here are some recent blog articles that are a must read for any web developer (especially front-end coders).

• Internet Explorer 8 and Acid2: A Milestone – Microsoft folks are claiming that IE8 will be standards-compliant.
• A Preview of HTML 5 – Wazzup with the next version of HTML?
• Add and Remove Elements with JavaScript (reprise) – very powerful code for implementing your unobtrusive JavaScript.
• Secure and Accessible Contact Form v3 – from Mike Cherim’s Beast-Blog, a great standards-friendly and accessible contact form (using PHP).

Did you ever have an email address that you posted on a web site “stolen” from a damn spamming company, then have tons of spam sent to that address? Doesn’t that suck?!

If you have, then you’ve probably either removed the email link or tried protecting it with some method of tricking these “spambots”.

I just posted an article called Email Spambot Buster.  It describes a great way of safely displaying an email address on a web site. It is accessible, uses progressive enhancement, and adds a couple neat bonuses.

Last week I attended The Ajax Experience 2007 3-day conference in downtown San Francisco. There sure were some big guys speaking including Brendan Eich, CTO Mozilla; Douglas Crawford, Senior Architect, Yahoo!; and Kevin Lynch, Chief Software Architect at Adobe.

The sessions varied from Ajax security, to Javascript frameworks, to advanced techniques with forms. Fortunately, there was even a session on Ajax and accessibility, given by Orbitz. I also was happy to meet Aaron Gustafson, and attend his session relating to progressive enhancement. There was definitely a concentrate of topics around Javascript frameworks (a.k.a. libraries, toolkits) such as jQuery, Dojo, Prototype, and more.

On a personal note, I decided to make a family vacation out of the event, so I booked a hotel a few blocks from the conference, and brought the wife and kids. Yes, it was tough dragging around two boys–who are barely toddlers–but nonetheless it was worth it.

Union Square in downtown San Francisco: