Within the next couple months, we'll finish signing for a sizable project at my small tech start-up. Currently, it is just me, a part-timer with *VERY* little experience, and two student interns. We need an additional person who has some teeth, and I'm asking here first because I love this forum. We are a start-up so curb your expectations of us!

My company has a pretty nice culture so far. We don't turn on the "office lights" very often, instead we have warm lamps that are noticeably dimmer and less headache-inducing. We have a comfy couch and bookshelf, a vinyl player, and a chessboard. If we aren't being productive coding, then we just pop a beer and whiteboard ideas. You will know exactly what everyone else is making; we pay you what we can, not what we can get away with(tm). We do not have set office hours, and we set meetings only when appropriate. Most of the other employees, unlike me, enjoy online gaming, so you may even make a League or CoD buddy.

If this seems like something you'd be interested in, please PM me.

Derrek "furinkan" Bertrand

I suppose I should mention that we are a US company. You should be able to work in the US, or deal with whatever tax liability that would result from subcontracting with us.

Honestly, I don't know what that would be, but I'm willing to find out for a good dev.

@Arthur:

First off, shoot me your linkedin, github, and/or stackoverflow via PM.

The issue with the current employees is they're fresh grads or students with no programming experience. They're currently learning Model View Controller fundamentals, while at the same time learning how to really program. In your case, you probably have the programming skill, but also lack the MVC, PHP, and other necessary skills.

I was considering having them work on a side project in C because they don't know their ass from a hole in the ground as far as how programming languages work. I figured an Allegro 5 game could be a kind of boot camp to teach them how things really work underneath the hood.

All of our stuff is currently time-critical, but I can send you the resources that I used to get familiar with the framework. It is similar to Ruby on Rails (a very popular RAD framework (Twitter?)). Mainly because they ripped off RoR hard, and the result is really nice:

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And honestly, the degree can be replaced by programming experience. That's NBD. The big deal is the specific skills that we are hiring for.

Bump. I didn't see this until now.