Need a near entry-level APGDST/PGDST from NCST or at least a BE (Computer Science). Have an immediate interesting Mac project to execute. Need the foll. skills: 1. Java, Swing ,awareness of event-handling and threads. 2. RDBMS database design, normalization, query design and very basic database administration. We plan to use PostgreSQL. 3. A minimum amount of XML programming will be eventually required and must be learned on the job if not possessed already. Why Mac? The client has a network of Macs. The applications look and feel much cooler than Windoze, GNOME or KDE. Still, OS X is a Unix/BSD/Linux cousin and most of our knowledge and milieu still applies. This project is on Macintosh under the latest Mac OS X Panther. It will be an Aqua (the cool OS X look-n-feel) application. The Cocoa object-oriented lib. framework has a vast library of pre-build objects, using system-wide services and the Aqua graphical environment. Java support for Cocoa is built-in to OS X. We will develop an OS-independent back-end code base with Java and integrate it into the OS X environment. The current project needs three interacting applications: A Product tracker, Inventory system and Accounting system, which we must build. We expect a lot of Mac projects coming our way. The programmer will build a in-demand skill. India's art, cash rich media, ad and even the film industry is very Mac-aligned. Baji J. Ram Rao 9821006931 email: ramrao[at]bajirao[dot]com www[dot]bajirao[dot]com www[dot]ryze[dot]com/go/ramrao