OT: Frustated hiring here

[an]

FLU, I agree with the last 2 poster. Any good developer worth your time can pick up a new platform easily if they’ve already worked in the mobile app arena before. I picked up dumb phone platforms, BREW and WinMo on the job and still able to churn out new apps w/in 6-9 months. This is not your everyday isolated apps either, we’re talking about apps for OEM that do file management or camera/camcorder.

Android is also quite new, so you can’t expect the applicant pool to be that big. If you want top talents, most of them already have a job and were not laid off, you have to pay the premium for it. Android seems to be a hot space right now too, so those who have Android experience probably wouldn’t have too much difficulty finding a job.

[meadandale]

I’ve always been pretty much a middleware and enterprise web guy. I got thrown into some E2E applications that were talking to mobile devices (J2ME) a few years ago and I picked it up pretty quickly.

The reason that I haven’t done any iphone or android work? I’m busy earning a living and my work doesn’t appear to be slowing down anytime soon.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m always learning a few new things here and there (I read alot) but going full bore into doing phone development on a new platform requires an investment in equipment (you need at least one phone to develop to) and quite a bit of time.

And, frankly, I’d rather do the server side piece in a smartphone app than the client UI anyways 😉

[meadandale]

I’ve always been pretty much a middleware and enterprise web guy. I got thrown into some E2E applications that were talking to mobile devices (J2ME) a few years ago and I picked it up pretty quickly.

The reason that I haven’t done any iphone or android work? I’m busy earning a living and my work doesn’t appear to be slowing down anytime soon.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m always learning a few new things here and there (I read alot) but going full bore into doing phone development on a new platform requires an investment in equipment (you need at least one phone to develop to) and quite a bit of time.

And, frankly, I’d rather do the server side piece in a smartphone app than the client UI anyways 😉

[meadandale]

I’ve always been pretty much a middleware and enterprise web guy. I got thrown into some E2E applications that were talking to mobile devices (J2ME) a few years ago and I picked it up pretty quickly.

The reason that I haven’t done any iphone or android work? I’m busy earning a living and my work doesn’t appear to be slowing down anytime soon.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m always learning a few new things here and there (I read alot) but going full bore into doing phone development on a new platform requires an investment in equipment (you need at least one phone to develop to) and quite a bit of time.

And, frankly, I’d rather do the server side piece in a smartphone app than the client UI anyways 😉

[meadandale]

I’ve always been pretty much a middleware and enterprise web guy. I got thrown into some E2E applications that were talking to mobile devices (J2ME) a few years ago and I picked it up pretty quickly.

The reason that I haven’t done any iphone or android work? I’m busy earning a living and my work doesn’t appear to be slowing down anytime soon.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m always learning a few new things here and there (I read alot) but going full bore into doing phone development on a new platform requires an investment in equipment (you need at least one phone to develop to) and quite a bit of time.

And, frankly, I’d rather do the server side piece in a smartphone app than the client UI anyways 😉

[meadandale]

I’ve always been pretty much a middleware and enterprise web guy. I got thrown into some E2E applications that were talking to mobile devices (J2ME) a few years ago and I picked it up pretty quickly.

The reason that I haven’t done any iphone or android work? I’m busy earning a living and my work doesn’t appear to be slowing down anytime soon.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m always learning a few new things here and there (I read alot) but going full bore into doing phone development on a new platform requires an investment in equipment (you need at least one phone to develop to) and quite a bit of time.

And, frankly, I’d rather do the server side piece in a smartphone app than the client UI anyways 😉

[sdcellar]

In my personal experiece, it’s been challenging to find truly talented developers for some time now and I don’t expect that the larger candidate pool that exists as a result of layoffs has done much to improve upon that.

I’m certain I’d be able to help you, but I’d also need to understand your needs more completely. To be clear, I’m a developer and not a recruiter. Feel free to PM me if you prefer.

[sdcellar]

In my personal experiece, it’s been challenging to find truly talented developers for some time now and I don’t expect that the larger candidate pool that exists as a result of layoffs has done much to improve upon that.

I’m certain I’d be able to help you, but I’d also need to understand your needs more completely. To be clear, I’m a developer and not a recruiter. Feel free to PM me if you prefer.

[sdcellar]

In my personal experiece, it’s been challenging to find truly talented developers for some time now and I don’t expect that the larger candidate pool that exists as a result of layoffs has done much to improve upon that.

I’m certain I’d be able to help you, but I’d also need to understand your needs more completely. To be clear, I’m a developer and not a recruiter. Feel free to PM me if you prefer.

[sdcellar]

In my personal experiece, it’s been challenging to find truly talented developers for some time now and I don’t expect that the larger candidate pool that exists as a result of layoffs has done much to improve upon that.

I’m certain I’d be able to help you, but I’d also need to understand your needs more completely. To be clear, I’m a developer and not a recruiter. Feel free to PM me if you prefer.

[sdcellar]

In my personal experiece, it’s been challenging to find truly talented developers for some time now and I don’t expect that the larger candidate pool that exists as a result of layoffs has done much to improve upon that.

I’m certain I’d be able to help you, but I’d also need to understand your needs more completely. To be clear, I’m a developer and not a recruiter. Feel free to PM me if you prefer.

[meadandale]

BTW, there are some weird things with Android and the G1 that you don’t discover when you are on the emulator but cause great pains when you deploy to the real phone…they’ve bit a few of my colleagues :-0

Like, your app starts and you show a login page and everything looks fine. Using the emulator, you enter your credentials with the keyboard. You don’t realize that on the real phone you have to slide open the keyboard and the screen rotates..now your nice UI not so nice anymore…funny stuff.

[meadandale]

BTW, there are some weird things with Android and the G1 that you don’t discover when you are on the emulator but cause great pains when you deploy to the real phone…they’ve bit a few of my colleagues :-0

Like, your app starts and you show a login page and everything looks fine. Using the emulator, you enter your credentials with the keyboard. You don’t realize that on the real phone you have to slide open the keyboard and the screen rotates..now your nice UI not so nice anymore…funny stuff.

[meadandale]

BTW, there are some weird things with Android and the G1 that you don’t discover when you are on the emulator but cause great pains when you deploy to the real phone…they’ve bit a few of my colleagues :-0

Like, your app starts and you show a login page and everything looks fine. Using the emulator, you enter your credentials with the keyboard. You don’t realize that on the real phone you have to slide open the keyboard and the screen rotates..now your nice UI not so nice anymore…funny stuff.

[meadandale]

BTW, there are some weird things with Android and the G1 that you don’t discover when you are on the emulator but cause great pains when you deploy to the real phone…they’ve bit a few of my colleagues :-0

Like, your app starts and you show a login page and everything looks fine. Using the emulator, you enter your credentials with the keyboard. You don’t realize that on the real phone you have to slide open the keyboard and the screen rotates..now your nice UI not so nice anymore…funny stuff.

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