Teaching an old dog new tricks: Dojo

Over the last two weeks, I’ve been waist deep in what has been, for me, a completely new client side development platform.  We have several projects underway at present that leverage Dojo as the framework for rich client GeoWeb applications and, simply put, we’ve got more Dojo work than our two resident experts can handle [...]

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Calling all Silverlight and dojo gurus: Hiring again

That’s right, DTSAgile is again looking to expand our team building next generation RIAs and GeoWeb applications in our Fort Collins, CO office.

As we have a backlog of projects that use diverse technologies, we’re looking for an excellent developer with one of the following skill sets.
SL, EF, ADO.NET Data Services
If you have bona fide project [...]

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The Agile Process: What my 3 year old taught me

I love spending time with my son.  He frequently reminds me that sometimes, life perceived through the eyes of a child is a pretty acceptable way to go.  I was a bit naive going into father hood and thought that I’d be the one doing all of the teaching. Yet every day I spend with [...]

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U Can Haz Job? DTS is building its FTC team…

For those of you that follow Dave Bouwman’s blog, this picture from a year or so ago may look familiar.  And I’ll ask the same question he did when he originally posted it.  Could this be your workstation?  Sadly, no…I took this one.  But we’ll build you another just like it if you’d like to [...]

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On Role Models OR “What’s Right With This Guy?”

Ok, completely non-technical personal post today.  I’ve become increasingly frustrated over the years, more so now that I have a small child, at how individuals and society at large select role models.  In particular I’m troubled by the tendency to put a movie star or a sports legend on a pedestal because they’re famous and [...]

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Inspect and adapt…sprinting to a new home

Apologies for the lapse again.  It’s been a busy couple of months including a significant change of venue for me.  After re-evaluating some priorities and life events, I have been fortunate enough to be able to join the Data Transfer Solutions development team in Fort Collins, CO. In a former life, I worked with Dave [...]

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The impossible question…sane interviewing

So I took some time awhile back to pick on recruiters a bit and wanted to take a few minutes and jot down some thoughts about the technical interview process for developers.  Time to pick on interviewers, including myself for awhile. 
First, you must all go read my favorite post ever about technical interviews.  You have to [...]

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My love hate relationship with recruiters

So the GIS market near Denver must be picking up again…either that or resume database searches and automated bots are getting less and less selective.  If you live in the Denver area and your resume has the letter “C” in it anywhere, watch out…your phone will be ringing soon with heavily accented offers of employment as either a C, [...]

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