shadchnev

London, UK – Software developer / Coach – Makers Academy.

We're on a mission to teach as many people as possible to code well. We're looking for developers passionate about teaching, pairing and mentoring.

We're building an in-house learning platform to make sure our classroom experience is perfect. Experience building software and a passion for teaching are the most important things we're looking for in someone who's looking to join our team.

Tech: Ruby, Sinatra, TDD.

If you'd like to learn more, please email me at evgeny@makersacademy.com or visit our website: http://www.makersacademy.com/

LONDON, UK – full-time, permanent, on-site.

Makers Academy is a highly selective, full time, 12 week course in web development. We teach how to think like a programmer and write beautiful code using Ruby, JS, HTML&CSS, etc. as well as agile, TDD and other best practices.

We are a well funded startup with great backers and solid traction. We're growing, so we're looking for more people to help us teach.

At the moment we're hiring a teaching assistant to assist our team of teachers. Your job will be to help our students with practical aspects of web development if our teachers are all busy. Our students spend 90% of time coding and when they hit a block, someone from our team sits down with them to pair. You will also be expected to help the teachers with curriculum development and building internal software but you'll spend most of the time pairing with students.

You are expected to have a CS degree or be a self-taught dev with 1-2 years of experience. You're familiar with Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, JS, HTML, CSS, TDD and OOP.

Our teachers are very experienced guys, great to learn from: - http://skillsmatter.com/expert/java-jee/enrique-comba-riepen... - http://alexpeattie.com/

You can get a very good idea of what our values and teaching process are from our blog: http://blog.makersacademy.com/

If you're interested in joining our team, please email me at evgeny@makersacademy.com.

Yes, I understand this, although I don't see any difference in number of applicants when I mention the salary and when I don't (I usually don't). I'm not seeing many good people who would be ready to join if I paid them more (it happens occasionally and we usually find a compromise). My recruiters are telling me that increasing the offer wouldn't give me more applicants.

However, if the harsh reality is that I must be paying more to devs, then how come there are so many devs (about 200) in this poll indicating they are getting under 50K? Why these two hundred people don't talk to me and many other companies desperate to hire developers on much better terms?

Having read all comments, I'm somewhat lost. I was hired in London in 2008 on £37K, it was my first programming job after uni, I had clean resume. Today a competent beginner with a few web projects under his belt easily gets around £45K.

I'm hiring developers for my startup – http://www.makersacademy.com – and I wish I had more applicants. I'm happy to pay £350-450/day for a decent Ruby dev and or around £60K permanent for the same position and I don't get nearly as many candidates as I'd like to. I was hiring devs at Forward Labs (http://www.forwardlabs.co.uk), arguably one of the coolest places in London, and I had the same problems: small number of applicants, qualified candidates asking for £400-£450 or equivalent.

At SiliconmilkRoundabout, the biggest startup job fair in London, dozens of startups are fighting to find a developer, many of them happy to pay more than £40K or £50K. From what I can tell based on my experience and what other entrepreneurs/recruiters are telling me, hiring devs is incredibly hard not because the companies are unwilling to pay but simply because there are not enough devs looking for work.

Occasionally I interview candidates that don't know the basics of software development, e.g. what mocking is or how to use TDD but they are asking for £400+/day because someone is going to pay that.

The data by Adzuna (http://blog.makersacademy.com/what-is-the-demand-for-ruby-de...) shows that the average Ruby salary is over £50K, and top 30% make over £60K. How is that compatible with the results of this poll?

How is it possible that there are so many complaints about low salaries in the comments, while at the same time my experience hiring Ruby devs suggests the low salary isn't a problem at all?

If you're one of those devs who voted £30-39K or £40-49K above and know how to use Ruby/JS at a decent level, drop me a line, I'll have a much better offer for you: evgeny@makersacademy.com.

LONDON, UK.

Makers Academy is an intensive, full-time course teaching the basics of web development using Ruby (http://www.makersacademy.com/). Many people believe that it's impossible to learn the basics of web development in just ten weeks but you'd be surprised to know how much a hard-working student can achieve in those 10 weeks :)

We started Makers Academy to do two things: help tech companies hire technical talent and to help people switch careers (being a Ruby dev is awesome!). We are a young VC-backed startup looking to change the way developers are taught.

I'm looking for instructors to help people switch careers into web development. It's a full-time job that involves lots of pairing with less experienced developers. If you make someone really understand how inject() works, it counts as a day well spent :)

We're also looking for guest speakers. If you'd like to share your experience with our students by giving a one-off Ruby-related talk, drop me a line, I'll buy you a lunch.

Email me at evgeny@makersacademy.com.

Makers Academy (http://www.makersacademy.com/) – London, UK.

Makers Academy is a highly-selective, 10 week full-time program that teaches web development. Our applicants are usually entrepreneurs who want to be their own tech-cofounder, people looking to change careers, freelancers looking to diversify their skill-set or people that are simply passionate about learning to code. We have a new cohort starting each month.

We're looking for full-stack Ruby developers to become instructors for future classes (contract, may lead to permanent). You'll be pairing with students, conducting workshops, demonstrating how to use a storyboard and merge code changes.

If this sounds like fun, drop me a line at evgeny@makersacademy.com.

LONDON, UK

Makers Academy (http://www.makersacademy.com) is an 10 week, intensive, full-time course in web development. We only accept the best students, teach them the basics of web development and help find a job as a junior software developer. We're expanding, so we're looking for additional teachers.

Teaching is hard but very rewarding and enjoyable. We're looking for contractors (10+ weeks) experienced with Ruby, Rails and related technologies who can not only write beautiful code but can explain how they do it.

We started Makers Academy to address both growing demand for developers and high unemployment rates. We don't believe in lectures but we spend most time coding (pairing) and the rest of the time doing interactive workshops. The main thing we're teaching is the mindset of a developer, the ability to understand and solve unexpected challenges.

We're funded by our parent company, Forward Internet Group (http://www.forward.co.uk). Our pay is competitive (not to mention usual perks like massage, video games and breakfasts)

If you'd like to know more about why we started Makers Academy and how we teach, please email me at evgeny@makersacademy.com.

LONDON, UK.

Arguably the most exciting tech position in London.

We are Forward Labs, a startup lab in London. We are 18 guys coming up with new ideas, building prototypes, testing them using lean techniques and forming teams around products that have solid traction. Essentially, we are a well-funded playground. Our goal is to produce 1-2 new businesses a year.

We have amazing, driven, entrepreneurial people who have a range of skills, from dev to UX/UI, marketing etc all within the team. Since we are part of a larger company, Forward (www.forward.co.uk), we also benefit from access to their expertise.

Please read more about open positions on our website: http://www.forwardlabs.co.uk/careers

Email me at evgeny.shadchnev@forward.co.uk for details.

LONDON, UK.

Arguably the most exciting tech position in London.

We are Forward Labs, a startup lab in London. We are a dozen guys coming up with new ideas, building prototypes, testing them using lean techniques and forming teams around products that have solid traction. Essentially, we are a well-funded startup playground. Our goal is to produce 1-2 new businesses a year.

We have amazing, driven, entrepreneurial people who have a range of skills, from dev to UX/UI, marketing etc all within the team. Since we are part of a larger company, Forward (www.forward.co.uk), we also benefit from access to their expertise.

Please read more about the role on our website: http://www.forwardlabs.co.uk/careers

Email me at evgeny.shadchnev@forward.co.uk for details.

LONDON, UK.

Arguably the most exciting tech position in London.

We are Forward Labs, a startup lab in London. We are a dozen guys coming up with new ideas, building prototypes, testing them using lean techniques and forming teams around products that have solid traction. Essentially, we are a well-funded playground. Our goal is to produce 1-2 new businesses a year.

We have amazing, driven, entrepreneurial people who have a range of skills, from dev to UX/UI, marketing etc all within the team. Since we are part of a larger company, Forward (www.forward.co.uk), we also benefit from access to their expertise. Please read more about the role on our website: http://www.forwardlabs.co.uk/jobs/lead-developer-for-various....

Email me at evgeny.shadchnev@forward.co.uk for details.

LONDON, UK.

Arguably the most exciting tech position in London.

We are Forward Labs, a startup lab in London. We are a dozen guys coming up with new ideas, building prototypes, testing them using lean techniques and forming teams around products that have solid traction. Essentially, we are a well-funded playground. Our goal is to produce 1-2 new businesses a year.

We have amazing, driven, entrepreneurial people who have a range of skills, from dev to UX/UI, marketing etc all within the team. Since we are part of a larger company, Forward (www.forward.co.uk), we also benefit from access to their expertise. Please read more about the role on our website: http://www.forwardlabs.co.uk/jobs/lead-developer-for-various...

Email me at evgeny.shadchnev@forward.co.uk for details.

Thanks, much appreciated :)

LONDON, UK.

Arguably the most exciting tech position in London.

We are Forward Labs, a startup lab in London. We are a dozen guys coming up with new ideas, building prototypes, testing them using lean techniques and forming teams around products that have solid traction. Essentially, we are a well-funded playground. Our goal is to produce 1-2 new businesses a year.

We have amazing, driven, entrepreneurial people who have a range of skills, from dev to UX/UI, marketing etc all within the team. Since we are part of a larger company, Forward (www.forward.co.uk), we also benefit from access to their expertise.

Please read more about the role on our website: http://www.forwardlabs.co.uk/jobs/lead-developer-for-various...

Email me at evgeny.shadchnev@forward.co.uk for details.

In other sources Titov mentions 13,000 entrepreneurs who are currently in jail. A quick search in Russian for "Titov entrepreneurs three million" doesn't give any other results but the BBC article.

Forward we'll be happy to host the event at http://forwardtechnology.co.uk/venue and I'll help organise it, as I said before.

I just deployed version 0.0.7 that skips any images of less than 45000 pixels (300x150px or equivalent). This will help with the load but you won't see the moustaches on smaller images.

London, UK. Forward Internet Group: http://www.forward.co.uk

We're a young entrepreneurial company that bootstrapped its way from its founder bedroom to an almost 200-strong company with very healthy profits in 6 years without any external capital.

We are behind uswitch.com, getinvisiblehand.com, omio.com, justcages.co.uk, petvillas.co.uk, forward3d.co.uk, locaria.com etc. You can take a look at who we are and what we do at http://www.forwardtechnology.co.uk.

We have been doubling our revenues every single year (up to £118m in 2010) and plan to continue to expand. So, we need great people!

We're looking for great developers (and many other roles too) to work on a variety of exciting online projects. We use Clojure, Ruby, Hadoop, Node.js, Sinatra etc.

Above all we're looking for smart, ambitious, entrepreneurial people. Full job spec is here: http://www.forward.co.uk/careers or here: http://www.forwardtechnology.co.uk/

Drop me an email at evgeny.shadchnev@forward.co.uk for an informal chat.

Forward Internet Group in London, UK: http://www.forward.co.uk

We're a young entrepreneurial company that bootstrapped its way from its founder bedroom to a 150-strong company with very healthy profits in 6 years without any external capital. We are behind uswitch.com, getinvisiblehand.com, omio.com, justcages.co.uk, petvillas.co.uk, forward3d.co.uk etc. You can take a look at who we are and what we do at http://www.forwardtechnology.co.uk.

We have been doubling our revenues every single year (up to £118m in 2010) and plan to continue to do it as long as possible. So, we need great people!

We're looking for great developers (and many other roles too) to work on a variety of exciting online projects. We use Clojure, Ruby, Hadoop, Node.js, Sinatra etc.

Above all we're looking for smart, ambitious, entrepreneurial people. Full job spec is here: http://www.forward.co.uk/careers or here: http://www.forwardtechnology.co.uk/

And it's fun to work here: you choose the hardware you want, you buy the books you need, the hours are flexible, no dress code, the people are reasonable and the entertainment budget is generous: for example the entire company hangs out in Las Vegas night clubs and casinos for 4 days every December, not to mention other trips.

To find out more email me at evgeny.shadchnev@forward.co.uk with your CV.

p.s. sorry, all our devs are on-site, we don't hire remote devs. Also, given the recent changes to the immigration laws in the UK, it will be very challenging (maybe even impossible) for us to arrange a visa unless you're an EU national or already have a work permit.

Forward Internet Group in London, UK: http://www.forward.co.uk

We're a young entrepreneurial company that bootstrapped its way from its founder bedroom to a 150-strong company with very healthy profits in 6 years without any external capital.

We are behind uswitch.com, getinvisiblehand.com, omio.com, justcages.co.uk, petvillas.co.uk, forward3d.co.uk etc. You can take a look at who we are and what we do at http://www.forwardtechnology.co.uk.

We have been doubling our revenues every single year (up to £118m in 2010) and plan to continue to do it as long as possible. So, we need great people!

We're looking for great developers (and many other roles too) to work on a variety of exciting online projects. We use Clojure, Ruby, Hadoop, Node.js, Sinatra etc.

Above all we're looking for smart, ambitious, entrepreneurial people. Full job spec is here: http://www.forward.co.uk/careers or here: http://www.forwardtechnology.co.uk/

And it's fun to work here: you choose the hardware you want, you buy the books you need, the hours are flexible, no dress code, the people are reasonable and the entertainment budget is generous: for example the entire company hangs out in Las Vegas night clubs and casinos for 4 days every December, not to mention other trips.

To find out more email me at evgeny.shadchnev@forward.co.uk with your CV.

p.s. sorry, all our devs are on-site, we don't hire remote devs. Also, given the recent changes to the immigration laws in the UK, it will be very challenging (maybe even impossible) for us to arrange a visa unless you're an EU national or already have a work permit.

Forward Internet Group in London, UK: http://www.forward.co.uk

We're a young entrepreneurial company that bootstrapped its way from its founder bedroom to a 150-strong company with very healthy profits in 6 years without any external capital.

We are behind uswitch.com, getinvisiblehand.com, omio.com, justcages.co.uk, petvillas.co.uk, forward3d.co.uk etc. You can take a look at who we are and what we do at http://www.forwardtechnology.co.uk.

One of our guys created statefulapp.com during the recent Rails Rumble (been on the frontpage of HN), many others contribute to open source.

We have been doubling our revenues every single year (up to £118m in 2010) and plan to continue to expand. So, we need great people!

We're looking for great developers (and many other roles too) to work on a variety of exciting online projects. We use Clojure, Ruby, Hadoop, Node.js, Sinatra etc.

Above all we're looking for smart, ambitious, entrepreneurial people. Full job spec is here: http://www.forward.co.uk/careers or here: http://www.forwardtechnology.co.uk/

And it's fun to work here: you choose the hardware you want, you buy the books you need, the hours are flexible, no dress code, free classes (language, music and even poker), the people are reasonable and the entertainment budget is generous: for example the entire company hangs out in Las Vegas night clubs and casinos for 4 days every December and we've recently returned from Disneyland in Paris (birthday celebrations).

To find out more email me at evgeny.shadchnev@forward.co.uk with your CV.

p.s. sorry, all our devs are on-site, we don't hire remote devs. Also, given the recent changes to the immigration laws in the UK, it will be very challenging (maybe even impossible) for us to arrange a visa unless you're an EU national or already have a work permit.

Installed for one of our production servers for InvisibleHand (http://www.getinvisiblehand.com).

- the default 40 minutes dot dying interval is way too high. I changed it to 5 seconds, otherwise the browser was unable to redraw all the dots.

- You'll have to install all the libraries it complains about manually

- It doesn't work with the current stable version of Node.js but if you install 0.3.1 manually, it's ok. I haven't tried the latest unstable, though

- It requires patching if it must be used on EC2: the local interface to bind to and the public IP are different on EC2 but maptail assumed they are the same

Everybody in the office loves how the screen looks, so I emailed the author to discuss if he's interested in joining our company :)

Forward Internet Group in London, UK: http://www.forward.co.uk

We're a young entrepreneurial company that bootstrapped its way from its founder bedroom to a 150-strong company with very healthy profits in 6 years without any external capital.

We are behind uswitch.com, getinvisiblehand.com, omio.com, justcages.co.uk, petvillas.co.uk, forward3d.co.uk etc.

You can take a look at who we are and what we do at http://www.forwardtechnology.co.uk.

One of our guys created statefulapp.com during the recent Rails Rumble (been on the frontpage of HN recently), many others contribute to open source.

We have been doubling our revenues every single year (up to £100m in 2010) and plan to continue to do it as long as possible. So, we need great people!

We're looking for great developers (and many other roles too) to work on a variety of exciting online projects. We use Clojure, Ruby, Hadoop, Node.js, Sinatra etc.

Above all we're looking for smart, ambitious, entrepreneurial people. Full job spec is here: http://www.forward.co.uk/careers or here: http://www.forwardtechnology.co.uk/

And it's fun to work here: you choose the hardware you want, you buy the books you need, the hours are flexible, no dress code, the people are reasonable and the entertainment budget is generous: for example the entire company hangs out in Las Vegas night clubs and casinos for 4 days every December (meet us all there next Thursday) and we've recently returned from Disneyland in Paris (birthday celebrations).

To find out more email me at evgeny.shadchnev@forward.co.uk with your CV.

p.s. sorry, all our devs are on-site, we don't hire remote devs. Also, given the recent changes to the immigration laws in the UK, it will be very challenging (maybe even impossible) for us to arrange a visa unless you're an EU national or already have a work permit.

Structure and interpretation of computer programs. We have a kind of a book club at work: we're reading the same book, do the exercises and meet once a week to discuss the progress and share ideas.

Forward Internet Group in London, UK: http://www.forward.co.uk

We're a young entrepreneurial company that bootstrapped its way from its founder bedroom to a 150-strong company with very healthy profits in 6 years without any external capital.

We are behind uswitch.com, getinvisiblehand.com, omio.com, justcages.co.uk, petvillas.co.uk, forward3d.co.uk etc.

You can take a look at who we are and what we do at http://www.forwardtechnology.co.uk.

One of our guys created statefulapp.com during the recent Rails Rumble (been on the frontpage of HN recently), many others contribute to open source.

We have been doubling our revenues every single year (up to £100m in 2010) and plan to continue to do it as long as possible. So, we need great people!

We're looking for great developers (and many other roles too) to work on a variety of exciting online projects. We use Clojure, Ruby, Hadoop, Node.js, Sinatra etc.

Above all we're looking for smart, ambitious, entrepreneurial people. Full job spec is here: http://www.forward.co.uk/careers or here: http://www.forwardtechnology.co.uk/

And it's fun to work here: you choose the hardware you want, you buy the books you need, the hours are flexible, no dress code, the people are reasonable and the entertainment budget is generous: for example the entire company hangs out in Las Vegas night clubs and casinos for 4 days every December and we've just returned from Disneyland in Paris (birthday celebrations).

To find out more email me at evgeny.shadchnev@forward.co.uk with your CV.

I didn't create the mockup complicated enough to use the layers but for a real pixel-perfect design they are a must, in particular the ability to show/hide them individually. However, they would probably overcomplicate this product, I'd keep it simple.

Re: shift. When I press an arrow key, the object moves a pixel or two. If I need to move it 100px to the left, I have to either wait a bit or press the button too many times. If the step was changed to 10 or 20px if shift is held down, it'd be easier to move objects.

I stumbled upon this when I about to draw a wireframe for a new project on paper, so I decided to give it a try. Here's my comments, as I'm creating the mockup:

- it's usable. Probably easier than Photohshop to throw together something quick and simple

- There's no way it's going to replace Photoshop anytime soon since I need a many more tools to get a real design done but it works for mockups.

- <strike>I don't get why the height is limited. My canvas is very wide (24 inch display) but only about 50% of the available space</strike>. Already found out from the comments how to resize

- it's hard to position elements exactly: it behaves differently from Photoshop near the guiding lines, which takes time to adjust to

- can't do ctrl-c, ctrl-v to duplicate objects. Again, it's a pattern I'm used to

- when the number of objects becomes large and overlapping, the list of layers will be useful probably. Or, I'll move to photoshop for anything complicated anyway

- when I hold the shift key down, I expect the element to move much quicker (I guess Photoshop does it this way)

- I cannot make only part of the text underlined. If I have a piece of text with some links in it, I'm forced to create individual elements for all links

Forward Internet Group in London, UK: http://www.forward.co.uk

We're a young entrepreneurial company that bootstrapped its way from its founder bedroom to a 150-strong company with very healthy profits in 6 years without any external capital. We have been doubling our revenues every single year (up to £100m in 2010) and plan to continue to do it as long as possible. So, we need great people.

We're looking for great developers to work on a variety of exciting online projects. We use Closure, Ruby, Hadoop, Node.js, Sinatra etc.

Above all we're looking for smart, ambitious, entrepreneurial people. Full job spec is here: http://www.forward.co.uk/careers

And it's fun to work here: you choose the hardware you want, you buy the books you need, the hours are flexible, no dress code, the people are reasonable and the entertainment budget is generous: for example the entire company hangs out in Las Vegas night clubs and casinos for 4 days every December and we've just returned from Disneyland in Paris (birthday celebrations).

To find out more email me at evgeny.shadchnev@forward.co.uk with your CV.

Forward Internet group, London, UK (www.forward.co.uk)

We work on a number of exciting internet brands: Omio.com, GetInvisibleHand.com, uSwitch.co.uk, JustCages.co.uk, Gloport.com and our digital agency Forward3d.co.uk.

We're a fantastic company to work for: nice people, good salaries and the perks like taking the entire company to Disneyland, Las Vegas etc on regular basis. We grew from a 1 man band 6 years ago into a 130-strong, profitable company today with no investment and we're still growing.

We're looking for very smart, entrepreneurial people who take initiative, embrace risks and deliver good results. Most of the brands we're working on were born inside the company.

It's really a great place to be, so if this (http://www.forward.co.uk/careers) sounds good to you, let me know: evgeny.shadchnev@forward.co.uk

Russia as of today isn't good or bad. For some people, what's happening is inappropriate, others accept it. For everyone here, I guess, Russia seems a nightmare but there are quite a few Russians, many of them, actually, who genuinely support Putin and Medvedev and have no desire of leaving. It's a different mindset, different way of life.

As for me, I left for London when I was 23, 4 years ago, never visited Russia ever since and have no intention of going back. Many (most, almost all?) of my friends who exiled feel the same.

I'm really happy this happened. Hashrocket are a bunch of great people running a great company and they went through a lot in the past few weeks. Unfortunately, though all charges are dropped, some damage to the reputation is inevitable.