Intrigo is looking for experienced PHP, JavaScript and CSS developers in the Tucson area.

If you have a passion for usability and a desire to make software that makes a real difference to the people that use it then we really want to hire you!

Intrigo make web applications nearly exclusively. Our client base is over 50% start up companies, so you’ll be working on some of the most innovative and interesting projects out there. The solutions we build are cutting edge in their respective industries (and on the web in general) and we want to hire people who are ready to try new things with web technology.

Our team is 12 people strong right now, split amongst developers, designers and support staff. We have some of the most talented artists and developers in Tucson who take a real pride in their work. It’s a great environment to work in.

We pay competitively with the industry giants, but instead of being just another face on a campus of thousands you’ll be working with a small team at a young and growing company working on exciting projects. (Intrigo is two years old this coming March with plans to open a second office in Q2 2008). We don’t ever expect anyone to work overtime and we’re able to accommodate for school or flex schedules. Our office is centrally located: near the corner of Broadway and Campbell.

We’re open to hiring college graduates who are planning on staying in Tucson after graduation. Current students are also welcome to apply, but we’re only interested in part time if you’re able to commit 25 hours or more per week and have strong web application skills already.

Update: the link to sztywny’s blog entry has been fixed. Use the link in this summary rather than the one on Slashdot, which is outdated

My summary of a great blog post by “sztywny”, a young Polish computer science blogger, that made it to the frontpage of Slashdot.

Many of the questions that make it to the Ask Slashdot pages come from young and aspiring programmers wanting to know the role math and education play in the profession, or what makes certain programmers so much more productive than others, or what the future of the craft will look like. One young programmer by the name of Jarosaw “sztywny” Rzeszótko decided to ask these types of questions (and more) to the programmers he admired the most who also, it turns out, happen to be some of the most influential computer scientists and programmers of the last several decades. The result? Most of them happily responded. The results include the following: Linus Torvalds (Linux), Bjarne Stroustrup (C++), James Gosling (Java), Tim Bray (XML, Atom), Guido Van Rossum (Python), Dave Thomas (Pragmatic Programmer), David Heinemeier Hansson (Rails Framework), and Googlers Steve Yegge and Peter Norvig.