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Yet Another Damaging Acronym (YADA)

I was the second Ben to be employed at Outside Line. Its confusing - I’ve never worked with a Ben before. The other Ben gets more ’calls too, so I’m constantly getting interrupted by shouts and calls across the office intended for someone far more important. This has led to the coining of a nickname thats slightly less irritating than a tropical disease. I’m often referred to as Ben 2.0.

For those in the know, this couldn’t be a less apt nickname for me. I hate buzzwords. I hate acronyms intended to talk about technologies in a marketing-friendly manner. As a senior developer, dealing with clients and their techical requests is only impeded by the presence of terms such as AJAX, Web 2.0 and Rails. Roger Johanssen, a respected web standards advocate in certain circles, wants to provide these clients with another stick with which to beat us. He brings you POSH.

Work With Me, (Or People I Worked For)

04.10.2007: I should have updated this entry before today - This position has been filled now, and we don’t require any more applications for the time being.

Outside Line are looking for a Apache/MySql/PHP developer to join the team in London. You’ll be working with extremely talented designers and developers, and me, on some interesting projects for clients such as EMI, Paul Mcartney, Reebok, Sega, Stereophonics and Universal Pictures. Bonus points will be awarded, (in order of importance) for knowledge of CodeIgniter and MVC, standards based development, (HTML/CSS/Javascript - Prototype and jQuery especially) and putting the milk in before the teabag/water. We ideally want someone with agency experience looking to step up to a bigger league and make their mark.

It’s a full time position in the brand new office in Exmouth Market, London, (a cool part of the city with nice bars and excellent food). No remote workers, people who can’t work in the UK or agencies. If you are interested, drop me a mail with your CV/portfolio via the contact page on this site, or at bens [at] outsideline [dot] co [dot] uk.

On a similar note, if working with me is too much to bear, the guys at Cimex, (my old hunting ground), are also looking for someone to fit the same sort of role. More details can be found at Beyond Standards.