So there used to be this hyper passionate, hyper loyal kid that I grew up with named Toran Billups... and throughout the years his level of excitement never faded...
I took him on as an intern once... and have mentored him throughout his career... and he's been gaining talent and momentum in his core development skills and his web development skills...
At any rate... he recently entered a competition, The Dice Tech Challenge and is one of the top 10 finalists...
So go check out his application, Things to do in Des Moines and vote for him on the Dice site (no registration or email required)...
And if you're looking for a junior developer with amazing potential, he lives in Des Moines and is fluent in PHP, C# (ASP.Net), and VB... and if you can see by his site, he has more design skills than the average web developer (application / system side)...
Thanks again Jake!