New Job Requirement: Experience Building RESTful APIs

Adam DuVander, June 9th, 2010
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The headline of the AppNexus job description jumps out with a question: Have you built RESTful APIs?? It’s the newest requirement for job listings, already known for their acronyms requiring OOP and MVC. You not only need to be able to consume web services. Now you have to have experience creating them.


What Downturn? Amazon Web Services Has Over 100 Job Openings

Matthew Casperson, March 11th, 2010

Amazon S3It can be hard to find good news regarding employment thanks the recent financial downturn. Apparently no one told Amazon, who have a post on their Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog announcing that they have lots of positions to fill.


Lots of PayPal and Freelance API Jobs Out There

Adam DuVander, December 14th, 2009

PayPalThere are so many jobs listed for developers familiar with the Paypal API on GetAFreelancer that the site has a category dedicated to it. And that’s not all–there are over 300 API-related listings on the site, which connects freelancers with people who need programmers and designers.


Best New Mashups: Friends on a Mug, Jobs Near Friends and Score Your Website

Adam DuVander, November 27th, 2009

We’re keeping things friendly with this latest roundup of fun, new mashups. Do something creative and different with your Facebook friends, like put their mugs on a mug or find a job near them. And there’s always some fun to be had with a website scoring tool.


Create a Virtual Workforce with LiveWork’s “Cloudsourcing” API

Andres Ferrate, September 17th, 2009

LiveWorkSaaS and cloud services provider LiveOps has just announced the release of a new “cloudsourcing” API for its LiveWork service. The Open Workforce API (OWAPI) enables businesses to integrate applications with an on-demand virtual workforce provided by LiveWork (more at our Open Workforce API Profile).


Mashup Job Trends

John Musser, March 12th, 2007

Want a “mashup” job? While you won’t yet find a lot of job descriptions with the word mashup in them, you can see in this trend graph from meta job search engine indeed that the number of jobs containing “mashups” is going up:

The line is at zero until the spring of 2006, then starts to [...]


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