So I was hanging out with some cool geeks at the Aimia Intimates event last night and one of them told me about a trivia contest that I might actually be able to win! I am not sure if I can make it to Sydney again, but if you are in Sydney and know who invented the internet? Have an idea what WWW stands for? Clued up on who the first blogger was? then this will be a sweet night! Keep August 9th free, as News Digital Media and Web Directions are hosting a night of networking for fun and profit on August 9 at the Vault Hotel in Sydney. Compete with your peers in a world first: a trivia night where all the questions will focus on the web, tech, and online life. http://www.webdirections.org/2007/07/22/geek-trivia-night/ There'll be free drinks and food and all manner of awesome prizes, so be sure to RSVP now as numbers are most certainly limited. Don't worry about forming teams or otherwise, this will all get sorted out on the night. Just bring yourself and your friends, and a bag to carry home all your bounty.

What: Web Trivia Night
When: August 9, from 5.30 for 6.15 start
Who: Anyone who thinks they could have a stab at answering the question "Who invented the internet?"
Where: Downstairs at the Vault Hotel, 122 Pitt St Sydney 
Map: http://tinyurl.com/2cxfq3
RSVP: Head to the website to RSVP, places are running out!

I have just made it home again after another great WebDu! Every year Geoff and and the folks a Daemon have put on a great show and this year was no exception so that guys! I look forward to next years already!

Now, a second thanks to the folks that came to my session on Instant messaging applications in CF, I will have the slides and the code up here sometime in the next 24 hours - Some of you pointed out a few things I could fix during my presentation so I want to fix that up first, so stay tuned.

Once again the great folks at Daemon are putting on webDU 2007 and Geoff dropped me a line to say that I was going to be speaking once again at this great conference.

I will be speaking about Instant messaging and CF, so get ready for some little bots answering silly questions over IM as I prepare!

If IM is not your thing, I will be sure to see you in a bar somewhere to chat about anything, it was a blast last year and I am sure it will be again this year.

It appears that it is the season for CF developers in Australia at the moment. There are CF positions being advertised in Melbourne and Adelaide and even in Newcastle at Teligence! It is great to see this nice new interest in CF developers. We have just taken on another CF junior and are about to start training them up (It is nice to have a CF instructor in house)

With 80 odd CF positions currently on Seek around the country, I get just a little concerned for our own team, so whilst we are on the recruitment drive, lets keep going... I know most people who might read this are really happy with their current CF position but I know you all know someone who might not be so happy.

So here is the deal, RedBalloon is an Experience company and I want to share the love - if you find me the perfect CF developer, I will ensure that you get an experience you will not forget, Jet Fighter flight sound good? Find me a senior CF guru! Know an up and coming CF legend? V8 hotlaps it is for you! I could go on but let it be know that the bounty is out there; Find Lucas a CF developer and you will be on an experience you will not forget in a hurry.

Yeah, gotta put some terms on an offer like this - there is only one experience available per SUCCESSFUL applicant and the value of the experience will be directly related to the value of the successful candidate. When that person starts, you will hear from me and we will work out something for you to do, right then on the phone!

Oh and the applicant doesn't miss out either - they will be working for RedBalloon, how could they possible miss out! We just took the entire IT team Jet boating last Friday (Ryan could not believe it, he has only been with us two weeks)

On to the position, I will take almost all comers but I am looking for a senior CF developer who can work full time in Pyrmont, Sydney, Australia. Someone who can tackle a project head on, someone know can help lead the rest of our team to greatness. We currently have 7 different projects that need work so there is no lack of variety of things to work on.

Skills? There is no long list here, just know CF 7 at a Guru* level - no minimum number of years experience (you can learn all you need to know about CF in 6 months if you don't sleep) but you will be asked as part of the interview process to prove that you do have what it takes to be a Guru. * All Gurus know about CFCs, the know about XML, they know about SQL and CSS.

Who is RedBalloon? We are a four year old startup that has been growing at 100% per year from day one. We work hard but we value balancing your work live and your personal life. We are driven and focused and you will always know where you stand and what you need to do today. We pay well and commit to your ongoing personal and professional skills development.

Know someone who fits the bill? Want to claim the bounty? Email me lucas @ redballoon .com .au now!

Unfortunately, one of our developers, Andy is moving to greener pastures, so we now have yet another spot for a ColdFusion developer.

Got Talent? Think you can cut it working with a very fast moving development team? We do at least one release a week so there is defiantly no time wasted.

We also play just as hard as we work, Andy has just come back from a shark dive and I have just taken a classic MGB away for the weekend all on the company's dime.

Sound interesting? Read on for the formal bit..

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It is starting to feel like a regular occurrence around here! We are on the hunt for someone to come and join the team.

This time we are after an Online Marketing Coordinator. They will get to look after all things cool down in our tech room. I am not going to bore you with all the details - you can download all the details below.

Well webDU is over for another year, Geoff and the folks from Daemon have done themselves proud once again and have managed to put together possible the best web conference on the planet. If you missed, well you missed out. Here are just a few highlights that were squeezed into 2.5 days of fun at the casino

• Nectarine's world famous intro animations
• Adobe's pin stripe shirts and their renewed commitment to all things cool (flex, cf and their wedding vows)
• Gavin Elvis Cooney fantastic Elvis impression and some very disturbing photos on flickr
• Robyn Hilliard Singing karaoke and the Rocketboots massage pallor
• 7 great sessions (I only made it to seven of them - sorry if I missed yours)
• Running into Wayne Smith (Ex macromedia Dreamwaver god) and finding out he now works for Microsoft running their Expression product range
• The entire Allaire Australia team (circ. 1999) being in one place at one time, again.
• Microsoft buying the beers all night Thursday night and then very thoughtfully buying breakfast Friday morning (don't believe everything you hear, MS are nice guys!)
• Stunning Mike Kear in to silence in my presentation by remembering his name.

Oh and the Brazilian dancers... can't forget them... well done Geof!