Brainripples

Come swing by labs.acrobat.com to see our newest offering, a really cool Flash-based tool for building presentations. That's what I've been working on for the last six months. (Well, I have been working on some of the invisible underpinnings. The part you'll see is by other people.)

I'm going to be lazy and steal the text from David's blog, which has more details. Working here is great and if you're interested please let me know.

Summer 2009 intern opportunity: software developer on the Buzzword team!

We’re looking for a summer intern developer on the Buzzword team in Newton, Mass for 2009. If you are interested, start with the official Adobe job position, click “apply now” to get yourself into the system, and feel free to email our recruiter Cindy Vink Loggins, cvink at adobe dot com with any questions. Or, if you know someone who might be interested, please forward them this post or the link to the job. Also, if you’re a blogger, please do me a favor and repost!

We just (as in 2 minutes ago) released the latest version of Adobe Buzzword. And so now I can talk about the feature I've been working on for the last two months:

Buzzword now offers spell-checking in 19 different languages (well, not quite 19 languages, because that's counting national variants such as US vs UK English, and temporal variants such as pre-1996 and post-1996 German, as separate entries). And I personally wrote all 19 dictionaries. Well, no, of course not, but I did quite a bit of work against a short schedule to implement an efficient spell-checking library in Flash for us to use.

I'm proud of the work that I did, and I'm really excited to have been able to contribute a feature that will make lots of users happy -- and to do so in such a short time after starting at Adobe.

This morning at the weekly team meeting I gave a demo of the work that I've done in the last week. It went very well; I was able to show the basic functionality of the feature that I was assigned to add, and people seemed quite pleased. There's still a bit more work to productize it, but it's nice to hit the ground running.

This afternoon we had a spec review, and afterwards the person whose spec we were reviewing expressed that he was pleased with my contributions to the discussion. I proposed a few ideas for resolving some problems that came up, and I suggested a few failure cases that hadn't been considered.

So I really feel like I'm contributing already, which is a wonderful feeling considering that it's only my seventh day on the job.

And I got to have a picnic lunch with H and Alissa today.

We're growing the team some more. Any of these jobs appeal to you or someone you know? Send me a CV and I'll forward it on to HR.

• Applications Specialist
• Network Administrator
• PostScript/PDF Senior Software Engineer
• Product Marketing Manager
• Sales Representative
• Senior Software Engineer
• Senior Web Software Engineer
• Senior Training Specialist

Two other things that aren't on that list: A documentation (tech writer) position will be opening up as soon as they finish writing the job description, and we're interested in working with a Flash consultant.

Also, jik got me to sign up with LinkedIn, so if you're also on there and want to establish a link relationship, let me know.