We have been expanding our workforce at ZYB a lot for the past months and now we are looking for ASP.NET developers. It’s the first time in over a year we have been looking for ASP.NET developers, but we just can’t keep up anymore.

You will be part of a small (but highly efficient) team of ASP.NET code monkeys focusing on the main- and mobile website.

The perks at ZYB

There are many perks as an employee at ZYB. You get to choose your own hardware. PC or Mac – it’s up to you. For me, this is one of the best parts of the job. Currently I have a Dell Quad Core 64bit workstation with 8GB memory and a 10.000 RPM hard drive.

Every quarter we throw a huge party. We’ve been out sailing, wake boarding, go-carting and a lot more. After the activities we dine and wine before hitting the night clubs and bars. It’s always a lot of fun. We also go out to dinner often and ZYB also sponsors various social community events, such as geek dinners.

The catered food is excellent and after lunch you can try to keep up to my exceptional Guitar Hero skills on the Wii. If you are more into foosball then it’s possible as well on our excellent Bonzini table.

Also, because we are a highly agile company with a great SCRUM master, you’ll largely never spend your evenings working before any deadlines. It’s actually so efficient that we spend almost all our time creating new features instead of fixing bugs.

On top of that, we stop working early on Fridays so everybody can join in on the free sodas and beers and possibly hang out till very late. We actively make an effort of not having any overtime, so no one gets stress or wears down.

The ASP.NET developer

The front-end team is very specialized and only deals with front-end stuff. No databases or SyncML stuff. When I joined ZYB over a year ago, I thought it was a strange arrangement. After a week it really made sense. By separating front-end tasks from back-end tasks, you get to focus and specialize in a much more profound way. This benefits the efficiency very much and you can go home happy every day knowing you have been productive.

We push the ASP.NET platform to its limits and beyond while focusing a lot on performance, scalability, usability and overall kick-ass-ness. We also make heavy use of the semantic web, which opens the door to a whole new world. We also do OpenID, OAuth and a lot of other of tomorrow's cool technologies.

So, if you want to join a great team of likeminded code monkeys, you’re in for a treat at ZYB. The food is good, the activities fun, the work even better and a pay check that rocks (like me on Guitar Hero).

If you’re interested, shoot me an e-mail or call me directly at (+45) 23 96 62 37.

Vacation! It’s that time of year again. Fourteen days of sunshine is waiting for me in Florida. It’s my first visit to Florida and it’ll be my 13th state with 37 to go.

First stop is Miami for a couple of days. I’ve heard a lot of good things about Miami and I’m looking forward to party like it’s nineteen ninety nine there. After that Fort Lauderdale, then across the state in a rented convertible and doing some snorkelling in the various marine parks all the way down to Everglades. After wrestling with alligators for a day we’re heading down to Key West to relax, party and enjoy some water sports. If time permits we’ve talked about visiting The Bahamas for a couple of days before returning to Miami. Amusement parks doesn’t interest us much, so we aren’t going to Orlando.

The summer is long gone here in Denmark and the whether has been very depressing for the last month or so. Florida will be just what the doctor ordered.

Thinking about it, 2008 has been my most travelled year ever and I’m not done travelling yet. Here’s a recap:

February: Brazil for the carnival (1 month)
March: Fishing in Sweden (2 days)
April: Bachelor party in Poland (2 days)
June: Barcelona (3 days)
September: Florida
October: New York City (4 days)
October: London for the FOWA conference (2 days)

Besides London, all travelling has been vacation. The next problem is figuring out where to go in 2009. My dilemma when choosing a destination is that I also choose not to go everywhere else.

Do you have any suggestions for things to see in Florida?