The Captain's Blog

I downloaded the latest Windows Vista (Build 5536) this evening and installed it.  I am very impressed by how much this build has improved.  I was absolutely floored when I saw a pop-up baloon come up from the taskbar that said 'A Media Extender has been Found' when the Xbox 360 in my house was turned on...so I was a good geek and investigated this message. 

Wow!  Vista automatically connected to the 360 as an extender (after entering the Xbox's 8 digit extender code) and now I am seeing Windows Media Center (add listening to my songs through the sound system) on my TV in HDTV via the 360...in less than 2 minutes of setup time.  Here's a screenshot from my Vista machine showing the 360 setup.

Xbox 360 + Windows Vista is now my new favorite toy, I'll post more soon about how the two work together.

Xbox 360
Windows Vista

I work for a rapidly-growing software consulting firm in Cleveland, OH (~200 people) that is attempting to hire ~60 developers/project managers between NOW and December 31, 2006.  All the positions are for Full-Time employees and you must be eligible to work in the United States.

We are looking for experienced .NET developers (v1.0 - v2.0) and developers with experience developing with any of the following server products:  SQL 2000/2005, SharePoint Portal Server 2003, WSS, BizTalk and Commerce Server.  Project Managers that have experience managing software development efforts in the Retail, Financial Services, Utilities, and Manufacturing Verticals are also needed!

All of the open positions are located in Cleveland, OH.  We are looking for people who are located in the Cleveland area, or people in Ohio, Michigan, Mass., Indiana, Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia, or Kentucky that are willing to move to Cleveland.

Please e-mail questions or your resume to jeffrey.kirk@gmail.com and I will contact you as soon as possible.  This is an exciting opportunity to join a great company that is on the move!

Microsoft has released the 'Commerce Server 2007 Partner SDK' available here.  This is exciting because they have made the source code to the Business User Tools (Order/Customer Manager, Catalog Manager, and Marketing Manager) available to be customized.  Many of my clients need to modify or extend these out-of-the-box Tools, and I am extremely happy to see this will be a much simpler task.  Thank you!

There is a film crew for 'Spiderman 3' filming in downtown Cleveland, OH this week.  I walked out of my office building on the corner of E9th & Euclid and saw this, today....

Pretty Cool!  Spiderman was standing on a sled attached to a truck while holding a web, and he was acting as if he was being punched (by some CGI character, I assume).  The picture was taken with my mobile phone, so I'm sorry it's not a better shot.

I work for a rapidly-growing software consulting firm in Cleveland, OH (over 100 people) that is attempting to hire ~30 developers/project managers between NOW and March 31, 2006 and up to 100 by the end of 2006.  All the positions are for Full-Time employees and you must be eligible to work in the United States.

We are looking for experienced .NET developers (v1.0 - v2.0) and developers with experience developing with any of the following server products:  SQL 2000/2005, SharePoint Portal Server 2003, WSS, BizTalk and Commerce Server.  Project Managers that have experience managing software development efforts in the Retail, Financial Services, Utilities, and Manufacturing Verticals are also needed!

All of the open positions are located in Cleveland, OH.  We are looking for people who are located in the Cleveland area, or people in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia, or Kentucky that are willing to move to Cleveland.

Please e-mail questions or your resume to jeffrey.kirk@gmail.com and I will contact you as soon as possible.  This is an exciting opportunity to join a great company that is on the move!