During the last quarter of 2009, we brought you Null Pointer. We watched the spike on the number of visitors during the first few weeks and watched those numbers stabilize during the first month. We also saw one user, an active member of PinoyJUG, get the first ever Null Pointer Enlightened Badge!
Our community is still growing everyday and as promised, we gathered more users before 2009 ended by promoting Null Pointer to these events:
November 27, 2009 – GeekUp!
We were invited by Sherwin Sowy, Head of Future Applications of Globe Labs, to present the site to this informal gathering of tech enthusiasts, bloggers, and developers where 7 other projects were presented.
December 1, 2009 – IBM Developer Nights Party
Thanks to James Faeldon of IBM Philippines, we had the chance to promote Null Pointer in front of 150+ students from the top universities in Manila.
December 11, 2009 – CPS Week Symposium
We visited UPLB during The CPS Triangle’s symposium on Technology Optimization: Innovations for Building a Greener Future. Unfair to the other speakers, we didn’t really give a talk about the theme, but shamelessly promoted Null Pointer instead. We also gave away Null Pointer shirts to the early birds.
Null Pointer shirts!
Cool, huh?
We’re still cooking things up for Null Pointer in 2010. In the mean time, you can also help us spread the word about Null Pointer by following and RT-ing us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/NullPointerPH) and joining our Facebook fan page and suggesting it to your friends.
Introducing the Null Pointer Job Board
In our previous blog post, we mentioned that we’re cooking things up for 2010. So we’re kick-starting the year off with something awesome. Today, we introduce to you the Null Pointer Job Board.
We know that the idea of this niche job board, focusing on programmers and developers, is not our own. If you’ve been spending a bit of time on the internet and being active on several developer communities, you should be familiar with Stack Overflow Jobs. Since Stack Overflow has a job board, and Null Pointer is the local version of Stack Overflow, then it is just right for Null Pointer to have its own job board. Null Pointer Job Board will bring together the best local (and several foreign) companies seeking the best programmers from our country. We all want the best, right?
Companies looking for the ideal candidate find it difficult to sift through all the applications they receive from posting on huge job boards and sorting the best from the acceptable-but-not-outstanding programmers is really quite a chore. Wouldn’t it be easier if the applications came from a filtered set of the best programmers?
For the applicants, searching for jobs in huge jobs boards can be quite overwhelming. Receiving job recommendations that don’t quite fit their career path can even be annoying at times. Getting job recommendations for a Java Programmer position when the CV says you’re a .NET developer isn’t quite what they want. While we believe there is some merit to headhunters’ work, we put more value on the companies themselves posting giving out their introduction and basic information so that the job applicants can decide for themselves if they want to apply.
With Null Pointer Job Board we reduce the amount of spam for board parties. Companies only receive applicants from those who are more than just the regular programmer (the Null Pointer users) while programmers only see the posts from the best companies to work for.
So your job board is better. How much would it cost us?
To help us maintain the quality of job posts, this service will not be free. We don’t want some second-rate company taking advantage of good developers, do we? So we are charging $150 per job post. That allows job posts to be shown for 30 days publicly at jobs.nullpointer.ph after it has been posted. The job posts will also be rotatingly shown at the side bar of Null Pointer.
So if you’re a company looking for excellent Filipino programmers, email us at info@nullpointer.ph. We’ll give you 3 credits for free so you can try it out the beta! For the developers, you can already subscribe to the Null Pointer Job Board RSS feed and watch out for your dream job.