RFID

Job Opening in Richardson, TX: Engineering Test Developer

Adam Sills — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:52:00 GMT

Standard stuff (pulled off our website):

Candidate must be highly motivated, innovative and able to work independently. Applicant must be able to communicate effectively and work well in a high performance, fast paced, team environment. Applicants will be tasked with Testing our Software Development Kit, .NET API's, interfaces and class templates for our RFID and Sensor Platform. Candidates will also be testing application user interfaces and may be assisting Technical Support with second level technical support calls as needed. A qualified candidate must have been part of a complete Quality Assurance effort within the total development life cycle and must have broad experience in testing components which run under Windows Services. Responsibilities will include writing test cases, developing test scripts, testing API's and SDK's. Degree in Computer Science or related technical field is preferred.

Required Skills:
* Experience in software life cycle testing methodologies
* Software Test Life Cycle and Development Life Cycle
* OOP, Windows Development
* Software development experience with Microsoft development tools & methodologies including the .NET Framework & C#.
* Background in object based or object oriented programming
* Experience in the use of XML, Web Services, RDBMS interfaces
* Worked on a high performance team in a high-tech startup or startup-like environment.

Additional Skills:
* Specification documentation (UML, State/ Transition Diagramming, Dataflow Diagramming, Use case documentation)
* Enterprise integration methods and tools (e.g. connecting to large ERP, SCM, CRM, WMS, legacy backend data processing subsystems)
* Microsoft MOM, SMS, Biztalk, MSMQ, IIS
* RFID & sensors
* VB.NET, Windows CE / Pocket PC Development, Compact Framework
* Test automation tools (Seque in particular)
* Handheld & Portable device usage using Windows CE, PPC OS & .NET Compact Framework
* Wireless LAN/WAN knowledge & experience

Company information:
GlobeRanger Corporation
Careers page:
http://www.globeranger.com/company/careers.asp

Please submit your resume in confidence to careers@Globeranger.com

Motorola Buys Symbol Technologies

Adam Sills — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:01:00 GMT

Just recently Symbol bought Matrics. Now Motorola has decided to get heavy into RFID and bought Symbol.

http://www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail.jsp?globalObjectId=7268_7209_23

This could lead to some really interesting product ideas. It could also lead to Symbol going stagnant for a while during yet another corporate restructuring.

Psion Teklogix / Globeranger Awarded DoD Defense Distribution Center Passive RFID Software Contract

Adam Sills — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:19:00 GMT

See the press release on the globeranger website or see the press release on the Psion Teklogix website.

iMotion Edgeware Platform 5.2: Workflow Service Providers

Adam Sills — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:57:00 GMT

A link between event controls in the iMotion Edgeware Platform represents the flow of data in the form of an event and delivered through a method invocation and is the primary way for event controls to “talk” to each other. This in-band communication may not always be the most appropriate way for one event control to execute another event control and an out-of-band method of communication may be more appropriate. ... (more) ...

Application Level Events (ALE) In A Nutshell

Adam Sills — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:40:00 GMT

Application Level Events (ALE) is a standard created by EPCGlobal, Inc., an organization of industry leaders devoted to the development of standards for the Electronic Product Code (EPC) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies. The ALE specification is a software specification indicating required functionality and behavior, as well as a common API expressed through XML Schema Definition (XSD) and Web Services Description Language (WSDL). The behavior expressed through the ALE..