Archive for August 21st, 2007

DevShed: Drawing Functions and the GD Library in PHP

DevShed continues their series looking at the use of the graphics functionality in PHP, GD, with part three - a focus on more of the associated functions.

In this third article of the series I’ll show you how to take advantage of a few more handy functions integrated with this library. These function will help you perform some basic drawing operations on a specified image stream.

They look at five new functions: imagearc, imagechar/imagecharup and imageellipse/imagefilledellipse with code examples for each.

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Job Posting: Open Source Staffing Seeks a PHP5 Developer (New York, NY)

Company Open Source Staffing
Location New York, NY
Title PHP 5 Developer
Summary

My client is a small, dynamic online publishing company of travel sales and specials. The position is in a fast, energetic environment working with marketing, editors/producers, and ad sales. Their website and newsletter has millions of readers and are growing rapidly! Benefits include health, dental, 401(k), and three weeks vacation.

This position requires knowledge of both front-end and back-end technologies. You will be intimately involved with defining processes and must be able to work well with others during all stages of the development cycle.

Requirements:

  • Experience with PHP 5, specifically OO aspects of the language
  • Experience with Linux and Apache
  • Understanding of JavaScript, HTML, and the DOM (AJAX)
  • Understanding of object oriented design
  • Experience with both MySQL and MS SQL Server
  • Love of open source development and standards-based development
  • Strong communication skills
  • Able to multi-task
  • DBA skills highly desired
  • Experience with N-Tier architecture desired
  • Internationalization experience is a plus
  • Experience with Ruby on Rails is a plus

If you are interested in this position and are authorized to work in the USA, please submit your resume, OO PHP 5 code sample and salary requirements to beau@open-source-staffing.com

Other information:

  • Paid Relocation
  • 70-100k DOE
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PRADO Watch Blog: PRADO Watch: Interview With Timani Tunduwani - Why I Moved From CakePHP to PRADO

From the geeQsQad PRADO blog, there’s a new interview with Timani Tunduwani of prodezine.com on how and why he switched from CakePHP to PRADO for this latest project.

Originally, the story came from a forum post where Timani describes his application as “80% finished” with things like optimization, meta tags and more content to still be added.

In the interview they find out a bit about Timani, what he was using CakePHP for and why he made the choice to go with PRADO over Cake. Also included are some of the differences/things he misses about using Cake over PRADO.

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Job Posting: Money-Media, Inc. Seeks a Senior PHP Developer (Manhattan, NY)

Company Money-Media, Inc.
Location Manhattan, NY
Title Senior PHP Developer
Summary

Money-Media, Inc., a vibrant financial content firm in midtown Manhattan, seeks a talented and dedicated Senior PHP Developer. The Senior PHP Developer will work as a key member in our bright internal development group.

The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of professional experience programming PHP applications in a production LAMP environment. We are looking for an enthusiastic, friendly person who values small company culture and teamwork. This person should be a self-starter and be forward thinking.

You are:

  • passionate about new technologies
  • dedicated to solving problems elegantly and innovatively
  • a leader in the field of Internet technology and PHP development
  • a developer who understands business
  • big picture thinker with attention to details and appreciation for analysis
  • sociable, for a techie, and you speak in a human voice
  • a developer who consistently delivers and keeps up to date on best practices/standards and programming methods

You want:

  • to build world class websites with dynamic UIs, produce mobile content and communities, leveraging web services, xml, xhtml, OO PHP and (of course) ‘Ajax’
  • work with a team of talented and enthusiastic developers
  • a chance to shape outsourced teams and projects
  • to drive business growth through technology initiatives
  • to have a positive daily impact on a group of loyal subscribers
  • to take all that you have learned so far and put it to good use while learning more

We offer:

  • a fun, collaborative team of web professionals with expert level skills
  • the opportunity to build web based business applications and publications user-centric techniques
  • a fast paced, dynamic, iterative development environment
  • career development via day to day code and project implementation and academically via conferences/classes/training
  • an organization that values coding skills and personal initiative: your ideas will make a difference
  • top notch compensation and benefits including gift budgets and work/life balance
  • a small company feel with an absence of politics
  • a convenient central midtown location near Times Square

We would like you to be:

  • experienced developing web sites and applications using object-oriented PHP 5, XML and MySQL
  • an individual who understands customer experience and can create optimal experiences using HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, and CSS 2
  • familiarity with Zend, MVC, templating, caching, sessions, and authentication
  • experienced with SQL
  • excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills
  • aware of web standards, their purpose, benefits and appropriateness
  • business aptitude and customer focus

And so, send us: (these are all requirements to be considered)

  • a cover letter with a brief overview of your skills and your ideal position
  • your salary requirements
  • a code sample of a project you built and delivered that illustrates your skills
  • a copy of your resume, ideally this will contain links to your online portfolio or at least some links to sites you’ve worked on
  • Send all of this to: devhr@money-media.com and let’s see if we can do good things together.

About Money-Media

Money-Media (http://www.money-media.com) is a privately-held, New York-based company that publishes online and print content for leaders in the financial services industry and in corporate boardrooms. We are an entrepreneurial group that emphasizes initiative, positive thinking, continual improvement and resiliency in our work culture. Our website is www.money-media.com.

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Community News: Theo Schlossnagle Nominated for E&Y’s 2007 Entrepreneur of the Year

Congratulations are in order for Theo Schlossnagle, a Principal over at OmniTI, who has made it into the list from Inc.com for Ernst and Young’s 2007 Entrepreneur of the
Year Award candidates.

Being the founder and principal of a $6 million technology company is the crown jewel of Theo Schlossnagle’s resume, but this is merely one of his many bragging rights. He is also a published author, the architect of a leading email software solution (www.messagesystems.com), and one of the IT industry’s most in-demand speakers. And he’s yet to turn 30.

Theo not only founded what became OmniTI (which employs several of the more well-known PHP developers including Wez Furlong, George Schlossnagle and Chris Shiflett) but is active in the PHP community itself, both as a developer and as an author - Scalable Internet Architectures.

Congrats Theo and best of luck!

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