My company is hiring again, and since I had so much success in our previous hiring round, I decided to use this blog for the next one as well.

Some information that you probably need to know:

• You have to know to program in C#.
• If you have OSS credentials, that is all for the better, but it is not required.
• It is not a remote position, our offices are located in Hadera, Israel.

We are looking for developers, and are open for people with little to no commercial experience. I am looking for people who are passionate about programming, and I explicitly don’t list the whole alphabet soup that you usually see in a hiring notice. I don’t really care if you have / don’t have 5 years experience in WCF 4.1 update 3. I care that you can think, that you can program your way out of problems and also know when it is not a good idea to throw code at a problem.

If you are a reader of my blog, you probably have a pretty good idea about the sort of things that we are doing. But to be clear, we are talking about working on our flock of ravens (RavenDB, RavenFS and RavenMQ), our suite of profilers as well as some other things that I won’t discuss publically at this point .

What is required:

Commercial experience is not required, but I would want to see code that you wrote.

Additionally, we are still looking for interns, so if you are a student who would like to gain some real world commercial experience (and get paid for it, naturally), contact me.

Originally posted at 5/12/2011

Since I am removing the ayende.com site (in favor of this blog), I’m using this post to note where you can still download the Hibernating Rhinos webcasts.

• Hibernating Rhino #10 - Producing Production Quality Software
• Hibernating Rhino #9 - Application Architecture
• Hibernating Rhino #8 - Going Distributed
• Hibernating Rhinos - Episode #7 - Rhino Igloo
• Hibernating Rhinos - Episode #6 - Code Search Engine
• Hibernating Rhinos - Episode #5 - Hot Code Swapping
• Hibernating Rhinos - Episode #4 - Hibernating Forums
• Hibernate Rhinos - Episode #3 - Implementing The Event Broker
• Hibernating Rhinos - Episode #2 - Select * from MonoRail.Customers
• Hibernating Rhinos - Episode #1 - Rhino Mocks

One of the annoying things about the Hibernate port of the profiler was that JDBC didn’t provide us with the parameters values.

Eric has just fixed and that is now live:

Enjoy…

I got several requests for this, so I am making Uber Prof itself available for purchasing.

What is Uber Prof?

It is a short hand way of saying: All the OR/M profilers that we make.

An Uber Prof license gives you the ability to use:

• NHibernate Profiler
• Hibernate Profiler
• Linq to SQL Profiler
• Entity Framework Profiler

And it will automatically give you the ability to use any additional profilers that we will create. And yes, there is an upgrade path if you already purchased a single profiler license and would like to upgrade to Uber Prof.

Don't get used to the deluge of the screen casts, I usually do them with months apart, not a mere day.

At any rate, this screen cast is another significant diversion from my usual style.

To start with, it is a zero code webcast, and it would probably would well as a podcast, although I think that the artwork and presentation is still important.

Anyway, this webcast is focused on several lessons learned from unsuccessful project, what are the kind of things that we should pay attention to, and how we can avoid them.

It runs just under 40 minutes, and it is pretty intense.

As I said, this is a new approach for me, and I would like to get your feedback on the matter.

You can download it at the bottom of this page: http://ayende.com/hibernating-rhinos.aspx

It has been a while since I last published a screen cast, but here is a new one.

This one is in a slightly different style. I decided to follow Rob Conery's method of using a lot of prepared code instead of my usual ad hoc programming.

Please let me know what you think about the different style.

This is a far more condensed episode, lasting just under half an hour, and it is focus primarily on the internal architecture of a real world application.

I tried to go over a lot of the concepts that seems to trip people up when they come to define the structure of the application.

The technical details:

• ~30 minutes
• 28.4 MB

You can download this from this address: http://ayende.com/hibernating-rhinos.aspx

I finally got around to putting all of Hibernating Rhinos episodes on S3.

They are still using torrents, mind you, because I still don't like to pay a lot for bandwidth, but they should always be a seeders using this arrangement.

I think I'll let it stand on its own:

facility Castle.MonoRail.WindsorExtension.MonoRailFacility 
for type in AllTypesBased of Controller("HibernatingRhinos"):
	component type.Name, type

Done.

I didn't believe it, to be fair.

I have been producing the Hibernating Rhinos screen casts for over a year now, and so far, I have offered them free of charge.

Estimated cost of producing a single screen cast is 3,500$ - 10,000$ each, considering the amount of planning, recording & editing that goes into them.

I am thinking about making the new episodes available for a fee, something in the 10$ - 25$ range.

I would like your opinions in this matter,

~ Ayende

Edward Connolly was kind enough to setup Hibernating Rhino #8 as a torrent file.

You can get the torrent from here: http://www.mininova.org/tor/1286587