What You Offer

Do you want an innovative environment, technical challenges, and brilliant colleagues in addition to business stability? Wall Street on Demand, Inc. has doubled in size the last two years and continues to look for exceptional people who want to solve hard problems and truly make a difference at work.

Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Javascript, ASP.NET, ASP, C#, Ajax, D/X/HTML, CSS, Web standards, Browser compatibility issues. A crush on xmlHTTPRequest, JSON and purely semantic markup language, reverence for Crockford and Hewitt, dreams in #000 and #fff, a loathing of Redmond’s rendering engine (but the skills to bend it to your every whim). Experience with object-oriented programming, the prototype inheritance pattern, and understanding of systems like DWR, Dojo, Prototype, RoR, jQuery, YUI. Technical and user experience contributions to site design, site architecture, and site production. Ability to work in a collaborative environment.

What We Offer

Wall Street on Demand, Inc. is a growing organization, headquartered at the base of the Rocky Mountains in Boulder, CO, focused on the design, development and hosting of financial web sites, reports, and tools. We deliver innovative, high quality products to help our clients and their customers visualize, manipulate and understand complex financial information. Our compelling, presentation-rich services for financial professionals and individual investors have won acclaim for our clients, many of whom rank at the top of the Gomez and Forbes awards. Our products are custom designed for each client, completely private-labeled, and fully integrated into the client’s other offerings.

The opportunity to work on projects for almost every top-tier financial institution in the world. Training in the necessary knowledge in developing for financial information. Ramp-up time to gain comfort in our environment. Learning from some of the best developers this side of the Mississippi.

Today’s high temperature is 59 degrees, according to Weather Underground. The overnight low should dip into the upper 30s, with a 38 degree target.

Saturday’s forecast is slushy. Boulder should expect a 60 percent chance for precipitation as the approaching storm front passes through the county – 56 degrees is the Saturday high, with 36 degrees overnight.

On Sunday, high temperatures are forecast to fall below 50 degrees and settle around 47. The chance for a rain/snow mix remains at a steady 60 percent throughout Sunday.

Check out the details: http://www.rtd-fastracks.com/nw_1

Photographing a Wedding and then an Earthquake

Can you imagine what it was like to have been photographing a wedding in Sichuan, China when 7.9 earthquake hit and shakes for three minutes? (via Kottke and un.be.lievable)

Zappos.com’s unique hiring price includes “The Offer”

“If you quit today, we will pay you for the amount of time you’ve worked, plus we will offer you a $1,000 bonus.” Zappos actually bribes its new employees to quit! (also via Kottke, The Master of the Setup)

Xcel Energy’s First Ever “Smart Grid”, right here in Boulder, CO

Fascinating.

Practical Traveler

It’s no wonder that a lot of travelers are talking about just staying home this summer.

AfriGadget.com

An entire website dedicated to African ingenuity… and how everyday problems are solved. Africans are the masters of making something entirely useful out of nothing at all.

American Airlines to charge $15 for checked luggage

An announcement today made by AA comes at a time when crude closes at an all-time high ($133), and the DOW is down 200 points two days in a row. Forget that it’s a fucking stupid idea to begin with… planes are over-crowded as they are and now everyone is going to carry-on hand luggage. The Times has more.

I guess it’s not like they had to cut a 4 p.m. class to go do it. People are not all that busy at 4:20 p.m. in the afternoon on a Sunday.
CU police Cmdr. Brad Wiesley

Big news is this town. Via The Daily Camera.