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Job Posting: Gossamer Threads Inc Seeks Senior PHP Developer (Vancouver, BC)

PHP Developer - December 20th, 2007

Company	Gossamer Threads Inc
Location	Vancouver, BC
Title	Senior PHP Developer
Summary	Gossamer Threads Inc. is a dynamic, small group of programmers that develop a wide range of web based software, and manage over 250 servers in our Vancouver data center. We currently have need for a talented senior php developer to help work on a variety of projects including one of the top 100 largest forums on the web. We’re looking for someone with: At least 3 years of development experience in PHP including OO design and usage, PHP5, pecl, xcache, xdebug, zend optimizer. Experience in developing applications in clustered environments MySQL experience - query optimizing, replication, profiling, innodb. CSS/XHTML - able to implement design changes and hand craft validated pages. Javascript - able to work with xml requests and other web2.0 technologies. The ideal candidate will be project oriented, have excellent written and oral communication skills, and a strong attention to detail. Occasional travel opportunities are also available. This is a full time salaried position, including benefits, working out of our downtown Vancouver office. Our office takes up the 9th floor in the historic Suntower, conveniently located a block from skytrain. For more information on our company and office culture, be sure to visit: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/corporate/ http://www.gossamer-threads.com/blog/ If working in tight-knit teams with a variety of different projects in a fun and informal environment interests you, we’d love to hear from you. Please email me at alex at gossamer-threads.com and include a resume, a code sample of recent work, and any URLs to sites you have worked on.
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Rob Richards’ Blog: PHP, Oracle and SELinux

PHP Developer - December 20th, 2007

Rob Richards mentioned in a previous book review about some of the issues he was having getting the Oracle extension enabled on his Fedora 8 system. Well, he’s come back after doing some more testing/compiling and has found some resolution to his issues.

I really didn’t need to get it running, but the sheer fact that I tried it and it wouldn’t work, pissed me off enough to spend some time getting it resolved. Hopefully this helps anyone else having the same problem. I am currently using instant client 11.1, but I did try the 10.2 version with the same results.

He steps through the process he followed - tracking down the missing libaio files, correcting an issue with SELinux loading the Oracle libraries and his realization: he just needed to allow text relocation. Included in the post are the command line calls that’d need to be made to make it all happen.

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Paul Gregg’s Blog: Want to try out the next major version of Delphi for PHP?

PHP Developer - December 20th, 2007

Want to try out the next major version of Delphi for PHP? Paul Gregg is looking for volunteers to be testers for the latest version of this CodeGear project.

CodeGear is looking for additional beta testers for the next major version of Delphi for PHP.

Those interested should check out this page and fill in the application to become a tester (just name, email address, experience using PHP tools and how much time you could devote to testing).

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Matthew Turland’s Blog: The Acme of Skill

PHP Developer - December 20th, 2007

Matthew Turland has posted some of his thoughts about a topic that’s being tossed around in the programming world these days - that PHP is “on its way out”.

I have to vehemently disagree with this, and not just because PHP is my language of preference.

He gives several reasons to back up the claim including the fact that large players use the language in high-profile sites as well as the recent upturn of popularity the language has seen (as people come back from the over-hyped other languages).

He mentions collaborations between PHP companies/divisions as well as components made to more efficiently run PHP applications on other web server types.

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Hasin Hayder’s Blog: My book on OOP-PHP5 has been published

PHP Developer - December 20th, 2007

Hasin Hayder has posted an announcement about the <a href=”release of his latest book from the Packt Publishing group - Object-oriented Programming with PHP5.

This book will teach users to understand the core object-oriented programming concepts with PHP and to write manageable applications with ease.

Here’s the official press release from Packt on the book:

Learn Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5 with new book from Packt

Packt is pleased to announce the release of a new book titled Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5. Written by Hasin Hayder, this book will teach users to understand the core object-oriented programming concepts with PHP and to write manageable applications with ease.

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm that uses “objects” and their interactions to design applications and computer programs. It was basically introduced to ease the development process as well as reduce the time of development by reducing the amount of code needed.

PHP is one of the most popular languages for web application development, and PHP5 supports OOP very well. This book will help users to master core OOP features in PHP as well as advanced Topics like Design Patterns including Model-View-Controller (MVC), and Unit Testing.

Comprehensive documentation and working examples on the Standard PHP Library (SPL), which are hard to find elsewhere, are provided in this book. Users will find this book useful to leverage PHP’s OOP features to write manageable applications with ease.

Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5 is published and is available with Packt. For more information about this book, please visit www.PacktPub.com