New on ArgumentCollection: Groovy, Eclipse, and TDD

This morning I published a post on the ArgumentCollection that contains a step-by-step tutorial on setting up a Groovy development within Eclipse that has TestNG (think JUnit) for testing.  As I mentioned on Twittr, I'm really excited to have a job that encourages me to blog some of my paid-time output, not just blog my side work that we happen to use in the office!

0 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 12:35 PM - Categories: Joe Drinks Java | Broadchoice

Another Broadchoicer: Brian Kotek

When I announced that I joined Broadchoice a few weeks ago, I mentioned a marathon job interview at their 2008 Global Developer Meetup.  What I couldn't mention at the time was that I had some very good company in the form of another interviewee:  Brian Kotek.  We both decided to join the team, but while I could immediately begin work, we couldn't announce Brian's hiring until today.  This morning, I was happy to see that the news is public in the form of Brian's announcement on his blog.

As he mentions, he and I have worked together on other projects for a good chunk of 2008, and the collaboration has been a great experience.  Brian is a fellow North Carolinian (living about 20 minutes from me), a ColdFusion and ColdSpring wizard as well as an all-around evil genius (in the best sense of the term), and I'm excited to have the opportunity to continue working with him.

0 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 12:12 PM - Categories: Broadchoice

Sean Corfield is Frustrated

Last night, Sean Corfield indicated that he's a little frustrated because he's not blogging as frequently as he'd like.  That's largely because we're working on a few projects at Broadchoice that we really can't talk about, but I can say that I've been working a little bit of overtime because the subject matter is just so darn cool.

So, while Sean's frustrated, we've got a triad of SaaS products under development that are chock full of interesting technologies keeping us busy.  Hopefully we'll be able to blog about the technology soon, maybe even on a new official Broadchoice Engineering blog.

4 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 11:54 AM - Categories: Broadchoice

Broadchoice is a meme!

John Whish has posted a blog entry entitled "How to get a job at Broadchoice" - apparantly we're a meme now! His blog entry is both insightful and nakedly honest, talking about some of the hurdles to be overcome when you're a lone developer without a development team or mentor.

Apparantly I work with a bunch of trendsetters...

1 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 11:59 AM - Categories: Broadchoice

Joe Rinehart joins Broadchoice, Inc.

I'm proud to announce that I am now a Systems Architect for Broadchoice, Inc. I'm a direct report to Sean Corfield, and the (impressive) list of technical coworkers includes names like Raymond Camden and Nicolas Lierman. At CFUnited 2008, Sean and Ray took a group of us out to lunch - little did I know that the three hours there would pale in comparison to the duration of the full interview, which consisted of attending the Broadchoice Global Developer Meetup '08. Ending my independent consultancy through Firemoss was a hard decision to make, but Broadchoice made an offer I couldn't refuse, offering my a position where I'll be:

1. Working with an engineering team that's second to none in the ColdFusion community
   
2. Working for a management team and board of directors including the likes of Sergio Zyman and Larry Blair
3. Designing and implementing a game-changing product in the world of marketing
4. Exploring new integrations of ColdFusion with Java and open-source Java frameworks
5. Having a ton of fun.

My initial project will be working with Nicolas to produce a behavior analytics and modelling RIA. It's going to be a challenge, as I'll have to tool the existing Transfer / ColdSpring / Model-Glue applications to record user events while simultaneously providing a high-performance service tier that will feed the (destined to be beautifully designed) RIA that Nicolas will be implementing.

34 comments - Posted by Joe Rinehart at 9:59 AM - Categories: Broadchoice