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Abbywinters.com is hiring!

If you’re looking for a new challenging and exiting Senior Webdeveloper position. Don’t look any further. If you already think you have the job of your dreams. Think again!

abbywinters.com (NSFW) is one of the largest and most ethical, highly rated, well designed, and successful erotic websites in the world today. abbywinters.com is the WINNER of the AVN 2011 Awards for Best Membership site!

And we are looking to hire a new talented webdeveloper to expand our small team. What would you think about joining our small Agile team of highly qualified professionals?

You will be creating sexy, exiting and game changing experiences for the web, work for one of the industry leaders. And just be part of an awesome company. Some of the jobs key elements are:

  • Implementing development projects
  • Leading informal mentoring during day-to-day work
  • Contribute to design of development projects
  • Track, reduce, and prevent technical debt in Web Development projects


Motivated by principles of social responsibility, we deliver provocative media by embracing imagination, creativity and emerging technologies. Our models, customers and business partners are inspired by our fervid passion.


Our experienced staff use state-of-the-art content production facilities to produce 10 shoots a week from concept to finished art, utilizing the most advanced digital capture, post production and delivery systems in the world.


You will be working directly with our Web Dev Manager, Lead developer and colleagues in the web dev team. We need each individual to contribute for us to continue as a pioneer in our industry.


If you posses a “Can do” attitude. Would like to work in the center of Amsterdam. And are able to identify your self in the criteria below. You might want to head over to our career portal for a more detailed description.

Technical competencies – Required

  • High level of skill with PHP 5
  • High level of skill with Object Oriented Programming
  • High level of skill with HTML/CSS
  • High level of skill with JavaScript
  • High level of skill with Internet Applications
  • Moderate level of skill with Unit Testing and Test Driven Design
  • Moderate level of skill with MySQL
  • Moderate level of skill with Windows XP operating system
  • Experience with the GNU/Linux operating system
  • Competent with Revision Control systems (Subversion)
  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
  • Zend Certified Engineer, or equivalent experience
  • At least 5 years experience in Web Application Development


Technical competencies – Desired

  • Moderate level of skill with the Apache HTTP server
  • Good understanding of the Model-View-Controller pattern
  • Good understanding of the ActiveRecord Object-Relational-Mapping pattern
  • Familiarity with Agile software development practices (Scrum)
  • E-commerce
  • Agile development experience

Just something funny

I cam across this page today and it made me laugh :) With thanks to the GNU jokes archive.

How the way people code “Hello World” varies depending on their age and job:

High School/Jr. High

10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
 20 END

First year in College

program Hello(input, output)
begin
writeln(‘Hello World’)
end.

Senior year in College

(defun hello
(print
(cons ‘Hello (list ‘World))))

New professional

#include <stdio.h>

 void main(void)
 {
  char *message[] = {"Hello ", "World"};
  int i;
  for(i = 0; i < 2; ++i)
  printf("%s", message[i]);
  printf("\n");
 }

Seasoned professional

#include <iostream.h>
 #include <string.h>
 class string
 {
  private:
   int size;
   char *ptr;
  public:
   string() : size(0), ptr(new char('\0')) {}
   string(const string &s) : size(s.size)
   {
     ptr = new char[size + 1];
     strcpy(ptr, s.ptr);
   }
   ~string()
   {
     delete [] ptr;
   }
   friend ostream &operator <<(ostream &, const string &);
   string &operator=(const char *);
 };

 ostream &operator<<(ostream &stream, const string &s)
 {
   return(stream << s.ptr);
 }
 string &string::operator=(const char *chrs)
 {
   if (this != &chrs)
   {
     delete [] ptr;
     size = strlen(chrs);
     ptr = new char[size + 1];
     strcpy(ptr, chrs);
   }
   return(*this);
 }
 int main()
 {
   string str;
   str = "Hello World";
   cout << str << endl;
   return(0);
 }

System Administrator

#include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 main()
 {
  char *tmp;
  int i=0;
  /* on y va bourin */
  tmp=(char *)malloc(1024*sizeof(char));
  while (tmp[i]="Hello Wolrd"[i++]);
  /* Ooopps y'a une infusion ! */
  i=(int)tmp[8];
  tmp[8]=tmp[9];
  tmp[9]=(char)i;
  printf("%s\n",tmp);
 }

Apprentice Hacker

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
 $msg="Hello, world.\n";
 if ($#ARGV >= 0) {
     while(defined($arg=shift(@ARGV))) {
	 $outfilename = $arg;
	 open(FILE, ">" . $outfilename) || die "Can't write $arg: $!\n";
	 print (FILE $msg);
	 close(FILE) || die "Can't close $arg: $!\n";
     }
 } else {
     print ($msg);
 }
 1;

Experienced Hacker

 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #define S "Hello, World\n"
 main(){exit(printf(S) == strlen(S) ? 0 : 1);}

Seasoned Hacker

 % cc -o a.out ~/src/misc/hw/hw.c
 % a.out
 Hello, world.

Guru Hacker

% cat
Hello, world.

New Manager (do you remember?)

 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
 20 END

Middle Manager

 mail -s "Hello, world." bob@b12
 Bob, could you please write me a program that prints "Hello, world."?
 I need it by tomorrow.
 ^D

Senior Manager

 % zmail jim
 I need a "Hello, world." program by this afternoon.

Chief Executive

% letter
 letter: Command not found.
 % mail
 To: ^X ^F ^C
 % help mail
 help: Command not found.
 % damn!
 !: Event unrecognized
 % logout

Research Scientist

PROGRAM HELLO
PRINT *, 'Hello World'
END

Older research Scientist

WRITE (6, 100)
100 FORMAT (1H ,11HHELLO WORLD)
CALL EXIT
END

ATP is seeking web developers

For the past three years I’ve been working as a web developer for ATP in the Netherlands. This has been a great experience. And still is. I have the pleasure of working with some really smart people here. Who are always eager to work with the newest technologies. This offers a great learning ground for all of us. The projects have evolved over the years. From simple websites to complex web applications.

Right now we are looking for some experienced web developers to strengthen the team. we are looking for somebody who master the following skills.

  • PHP Specialist (a minimum of 3 years experience)
  • Object oriented experience
  • Good knowledge of XML, SQL, JavaScript en CSS
  • Experienced with web services (SOAP, XML-RPC)
  • You are flexible, pro-active, pragmatic and eager to learn
  • You can work alone or in a team
  • You have good communicative skills in Dutch and English
  • You are able to prioritize in hectic situations

We offer a great working environment. Good secondary working conditions. A year contract with the intention to prolong.

If you are located in the Schiphol / Amsterdam area. And are looking for a good job. take your chance. For more information take a look at atp.nl. If you are interested drop me a line.

I am Thijs Lensselink a Webdeveloper from the Netherlands. read more

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