Extensive experience with web development, strong technical and coding skills are required. We are looking for someone who shines in a small, growing team and shares a passion for their work.

Bachelor’s degree and Ruby on Rails, database and non-relational database, current frameworks and tools and a variety of cloud-based services experience is required. We are looking for the right person; whether that is a junior level developer or someone with more experience.

Highly competitive salary and benefits package including stock options. Local candidates only. No relocation. No sponsorship.

Please email a Word version of your resume to nancy@calm-water.com in confidence and you will be contacted with additional, specific information.

Thank you!

Please don’t give up! I am over 40 and I have been where you are… many times. My advice to you is GET OUT.

Programmers (especially women.. even ones over 40 and with kids) are in high demand. If you’ve already been contributing to open source on your own, likely you’re the kind of person who would be a huge asset to any company. Believe it.

There is NO reason for you to put up with a job that does not make you happy. I *love* *love* *love* my current job and you can too. I promise!

Are you familiar with a website called devchix.com? Here you will find other women programmers just like you who will provide ALL the support you need in finding another job that you will love.

Best of luck!
Liana

Now that I am much older I am having serious trouble with young men. If you are a young women they might give you a hard time, but at least they find you interesting and they like having you around. If you are a middle aged or older woman, that is not the case.

I loved programming since I started 25 years ago and I still love it. I was so grateful to be able to make money doing one of the things i like doing. I never expected things to get as bad as they are right now.

I worked for a male manager half my age for the past 6 years. He did not hire me. He hired all the rest of his programmers, and they are all young men like him. I feel out of place and I have been treated very differently from the others, I feel.

My biggest challenge with this manager was getting him to give me projects. Whenever he did give me a project, it was a dud. So I did not get 6 years of experience in the past 6 years.

Recently he started threatening to fire me because he says I am at a very low level compared to the guys he hired. Well yes Iit’s true I am lacking good experience. But there is nothing wrong with me to prevent me from catching up.

He did give me a good project a couple of months ago, my chance to finally prove I am not a complete moron. But I don’t think anything will convince him.

My manager has been involved in open source on github for the past 4 years, but I knew nothing about github until last year when a co-worker told me about it.

Almost every important thing I learn has been from random conversations with co-workers. Fortunately, some programmers love to talk and when they do I always listen.

If not for my young male co-workers, there is no way I could have survived at my job this long.

Recently I used an open source library in my project and I found and fixed some bugs in it. I knew about forking from a co-worker — of course my boss would never have told me. But I didn’t know what to do with my bug fixes.

I asked another co-worker and he told me about pull requests. My boss knew I had forked and fixed some bugs, but of course he never told me about pull requests.

So I sent a pull request and it was accepted. This was my very first pull request so I was pretty elated.

But of course my boss is not impressed.

As much as I love programming, and as happy as I was to start getting involved in open source, I have started to think I should try to get out of this field as soon as I can.

My boss is so unhelpful and I am usually afraid to ask him anything. I would rather search in google for hours, and if that fails ask my co-workers. My boss gives me the “you idiot” look any chance he gets.

I have been crying hysterically to HR many times. They can’t do anything and I’m sure they are tired of it.

I am way way over 40 and therefore too old to get another job.

I was never a feminist and I hated the idea of blaming sexism for my troubles. But when you combine sexism with age-ism it can be pretty lethal. it really really hurts.

I AGREE WITH EVERY DAMN WORD!!

BILLIE

You can use System.DBNull.Value for find out the variable has a dbnull or not

if (ds.Tables[0].Rows[i].ItemArray[0] == System.DBNull.Value)
{
MessageBox.Show(“DBNULL exist in the field “);
}

full source code :

http://net-informations.com/csprj/ado.net/cs-dbnull.htm

Richard

Thank you 100 times!
- Lauren