Month: September 2006

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C# Developer to work on McLaren F1 Team

Saw this on jobs.joelonsoftware.com – so tempting :)

Software Engineer

at McLaren Racing Ltd
Surrey, England

McLaren Racing is looking for a talented developer to join a small software team to help develop data analysis tools for the Formula One team. The role will encompass all aspects of the software lifecycle from initial concept through to delivery.
Suitable applicants will have an excellent degree in Computer Science from a top university. The role would suit a recent graduate or someone with up to 4 years’ experience in a commercial software environment.
Ideally candidates will have experience with C# and knowledge of SQL or VB6 will be useful. Applicants must have previous programming experience, preferably in at least one of the above languages, as well as the imagination and initiative to design and implement software solutions.
Applicants should be enthusiastic, self-motivated and able to work under pressure. The successful candidate will have the ability to work well within a team and to tight deadlines.
Please only apply if you have the right to work in the UK.

Interested?

Please send your cv with a covering email to mclarenhr@mclaren.com

[tags]job, c#, f1, mclaren, joelonsoftware[/tags]

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WinFx RC1 released

Tim Sneath : Windows Vista RC1 – Tools Ready…

Well a few days ago WinFX (sorry, NetFx 3.0) RC1 (release candidate 1) was released to the world at large. We had to wait a few days for all the tools to be released as well, but now they are here.

So thats Expression Interactive Designer, and the Visual Studio support (“Orcas”) now released as well.

I’ve started work on trying to use these tools with the FlickrNet API Library, but there is a huge learning curve.

I’ve just finished reading Chris Sells and Ian Griffiths book on the WPF, which while it is based on earlier Beta code is still a very good introduction to the subject matter – and gets your mind around most of the concepts that you need to grasp to get going.

Its only a light book, meant to cover the topics only briefly. Advanced topics like 3D etc aren’t covered much but I found the text very easy to understand, and it seems that most of the stuff still seems to work (although check Chris’s website above as he has a page on ‘things that have changed’).

The other book on the subject is The “Application = Code + Markup” book from Charles Petzold which seems to be getting very good reviews.

[tags]winfx, .net 3.0, netfx30, books, book, microsoft[/tags]