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A few days ago, Gilles Granger, the manager of Vinini and a good friend asked me whether I was willing to help him find two excellent developers for his company. I asked him for give more information on the exact profile he was looking for and he sent me the following:

Vinivi est l’un des sites leader Européen sur le voyage et l’une des rares Start-Up 100% à Maurice.

Nous travaillons 100% de notre temps sur le site et sommes en partenariat, par exemple, avec de petites sociétés comme Google et Galiléo.

Une équipe soudée, moyenne d’âge équipe de dev : 26 ans, beaucoup de projets et pas assez de temps pour tout faire.

Vinivi est un site participatif (web 2), il faut donc être geek, savoir ce qu’est Internet et une API.

Les jobs, plein temps, sont situés dans nos locaux à Trou Aux Biches, dans le Nord.

Our playground:

• ASP.NET (C#)
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Database Design & Optimization)
• AJAX, Google Map API, CSS, XHTML, JavaScript
• Search Engine Optimization
• SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services)

Geek exp̩riment̩ : Developer Р.NET, C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server

Nice to have:

• Experience in graphic package tools: Photoshop CS or other
• Experience one or more of the following API: Facebook, Google Maps, YouTube, Amazon
• Experience in SSIS

Academic and Work Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• 2-3 years of related professional experience.

Jeune geek : Junior Developer .Net, C#, ASP .Net, SQL Server

Academic and Work Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Le site web : www.vinivi.com

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Good luck to all those applying! Pity you’ll have to work with Microsoft technologies :-)

The other day while having dinner at a friend’s place, we had an interesting conversation about one of the core values of Web 2.0 i.e. harnessing collective intelligence. One friend argued that websites like Wikipedia and Amazon were so full of vandals (defacing pages on Wikipedia and writing bogus reviews on Amazon for example) that we should never use them to learn / decide what to buy…

Interestingly, my other friends said that they were not too sure about Amazon being unreliable (maybe because they had no choice than believing that the comments on Amazon were sincerely written as their entire buying strategy was based on that being true…) but, surely, he was right about Wikipedia which couldn’t possibly be authoritative.

 

I was the only one saying that Wikipedia is good enough. In fact, it’s more than good enough in the sense that if one feels a specific page is not good enough he can make it become good enough by editing it. Of course, there are vandals on Wikipedia but the website features an excellent version tracking system and, more important, more honest people than vandals.

In fact, I immediately realised that some people had a bad perception of Wikipedia because, brace yourself, it is free. Yep. Same as open source software. For some bizarre reason, some of us believe that something which is free is obligatorily not good. And, of course, what is expensive is obligatorily good.

And this is a very bad thing. Because it’s false. Remember this when doing your Christmas shopping.

Merry Christmas to you!