As part of our expansion in India, Farscan is looking for energetic talent to fill the following technical, marketing and administrative roles for our new Kochi office in Kerala.

• iPhone / Android Developer
  • iPhone OS / Android SDK, Objective C, C++
• Web Designer
  • HTML, CSS and Web 2.0 Design
• Web Developer
  • PHP / SQL, Ajax, Jquery. E-Commerce & Multi-User application development experience is a must
• Online Marketing Specialist
  • SEO, PPC/SEM, Social Media, Web Analytics, Affiliate/Partner Programs, E-commerce
• Graphic Artist
  • Online design & Adobe Creative suite (Photoshop, Illustrator) experience necessary
• English Copy Writer
  • Product Catalogs / Commercial Blogging experience required
• TeleMarketing Executive
  • Direct Sales experience and Fluent English communication skills required
• Call Center / Telephone Support Executive
  • Customer support and Fluent English communication skills are a must
• Accountant / Operations Manager
  • Book keeping, operations team management
• Office Manager / Receptionist

For more information on our Kochi Office or to apply,  please visit Farscan’s Career page.

This week, we have been looking at the open source job board application – jobberbase. Originally derived from the successful Romanian IT job board jobber.ro, the current version (ver 1.6) of this job board package is very flexible and leverages smarty templates for customization. Head over to www.jobberbase.org for a standard jobberbase installation example.

Jobberbase’s main features are:

• Allows job posts with a simple one time e-mail verification
• Allows applying to jobs without requiring an account
• Browse / Search based on type (Full-time / part-time), category (E.g: Programmer) and locations of jobs
• RSS feeds of latest jobs
• Counter indicating # of applicants for each posted job
• Clean and crisp UI
• Admin control panel for maintaining jobs & stats
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There are as many ways to implement form validation as there are opinions of the best way to do it. This article discusses client-side validation using jQuery's validation plugin.

One of the common questions that come up during IT strategy discussions is around open source alternatives that businesses should keep an eye on, if not actively considering a migration to. This article examines some of the common open source alternatives that I have found most clients have been happy with in their production environment. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of open source alternatives. But, some of the top choices in selected categories that can get you started.

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