Friday, January 25, 2008
Posted 6 months ago in Jobs, Technology, Product Development by Gary Theis
Obscure Airplane! references aside, we’re looking for another infusion of brilliant techies to help take our travel tools to the next level. Without further ado, our positions in Singapore are:
Javascript Ninja (link to position description on monster.com.sg)
We need someone strong with the force in Javascript. If jQuery and Prototype are your cup of tea, drop us a CV.
Ruby on Rails Developer
Rails is already a major part of our application base. If you’re looking for full-time professional work with Rails - here’s your chance!
Linux System Administrator - Filled!
Someone has to keep the machines fed! If your Linux-fu is powerful, we have a place for you on the team.
If these jobs sound like you, please email your CV or resume to:
devel.bezurk (at) bezurk.com
with a note in the subject indicating the position.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Posted 6 months ago in Technology, Product Development by arun
We the nerds actively push ourselves to be on the cutting-edge of current technological happenings. So it was no surprise that when CouchDB appeared on our radar, we jumped at the opportunity to try it out. A flat document-based model for data storage seemed like a good fit for some of our products.
And although CouchDB has an extremely elegant REST API to store/query/view documents, the Ruby-ists here at Bezurk will baulk at the sight of parentheses and braces. Death before inconvenience.
Enter ActiveCouch
ActiveCouch is an open-source Ruby wrapper for CouchDB developed in-house at Bezurk. In Jobs-ian style, version 0.1.0 is out and it ships…today!
Some of it’s functionalities include: convenience methods for creating and deleting databases from a CouchDB database, a Ruby DSL to create permanent views for a CouchDB database, the ability to query and retrieve CouchDB documents in concise ActiveRecord semantics, the ability to persist and delete documents from a CouchDB database and callbacks which enable you to execute methods at specific points in an ActiveCouch object’s lifetime (for e.g. before/after saving).
Like CouchDB itself, this is beta software, but is a living, breathing organism which is constantly evolving.
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Thursday, October 11, 2007
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Bezurk Buzz, Product Development by grace
Ross Veitch, our Chief Product Officer and one of the co-founders of Bezurk, was invited to speak at an event called Popout - Emerging web startups organized by The Digital Movement. Our team went along to Suntec Hall 2 to join the crowd of techno-savvy professionals, students, nerds and curious netizens in learning about the newest web technologies and exciting local startups. Ross was assigned to be the first presentor and so had the advantage of a crowd that is still attentive. Other presentors include Quaff, ZopIM, bookjetty and recruit.net (atleast those were the ones i remember).
Apart from highlighting the features of Bezurk’s travel search, Ross also shared the things he wished he knew when he started Bezurk, like working more hours and being forced to learn about financial and investment jargons. While Ross was speaking, I noticed a lot of “paparazzis” taking a photo of him and I thought he forgot to mention that being a technopreneur can also make you an instant celebrity, you even end up in a magazine cover!
As a final note to aspiring technopreneurs who want a piece of the pie and promise of million returns, Ross advised to “never do it only for money, but do it for something you are passionate about.” Being in the travel industry for quite a time now, I’ve met people who are in their jobs because they are passionate about travel. They are those who will never be satisfied with the existing practices when they know they could be doing more. These are the same people I met at bezurk - people who have given up corporate life, x-figure salaries, and retirement plans for the joy of creating a solution and fulfilling a vision.
This vision is what fuels the ever evolving engine of Bezurk, and we aim to have our partners and users reap the benefits. As one of the attendees of the event (now also a Bezurk convert) has put it, “Bezurk really seems like the solution many travellers have been looking for. It saves the trouble of having to go through Google search results individually to find what you want (and the best deals of course). In fact, I would call Bezurk the “Google” of travelling.” Now that’s enough said.
