Archive for January 3rd, 2008

Community News: Rails for PHP Developers Website Launched

PHP Developer - January 3rd, 2008

Mike Naberezny has start up a new resource to try to bridge some of the gap between PHP and Ruby and to help developers of either to get a bit more insight into the others’ side - Rails for PHP Developers (based on the book published by the Pragmatic Programmers).

Rails for PHP Developers is a new site for PHP developers who are also interested in Rails and Ruby. PHP and Ruby are great complementary tools that are sometimes seen as adversarial, which is really unfortunate. We use both and we’ll be writing regular articles to help cross-pollinate ideas and promote collaboration between the communities.

There’s already some good content there - useful perlisms in ruby, a look at PHP object attributes and some information about the release of the site itself.

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Job Posting: Manic Melon Seeks Mid - Senior LAMP Web Developer

PHP Developer - January 3rd, 2008
Company Manic Melon
Location Overland Park, KS
Title Mid - Senior LAMP Web Developer
Summary

Seeking a new opportunity with a solid company? A career path that is NOT venture $$$ backed, but offers a stable track record and a very positive future? Consider applying with Net Profit Services, Inc.

Apply for a position on our team.

As a member of our small and growing full service web marketing firm, you’d take the lead in development of custom web applications for some of our clients. It’s a dynamic environment since every month or two we get the joy of moving to a new challenge, a new opportunity, and a new chance to shine while over-pleasing the client. Our team however is quite disciplined, meeting benchmarks and deadlines, and knowing each person is accountable for their position on the team.

We seek skill and talent… a PHP geek with style and attention to detail

If you’re a skilled PHP/MySQL developer that takes pride in fully functional web applications presented via efficient user interfaces, and maybe takes interest in AJAX, get in touch with us.

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • 3+ years web development experience delivering exceptional work on time!
  • Expert-level knowledge of PHP, MySQL, JS, CSS/XHTML, and AJAX, to name a few.
  • Experience with coding entire apps, turning specs/wireframe/prototype into fullly functional apps.
  • Server familiarity (Linux, Apache, MySQL, FreeBSD) [xen or vmare would be a bonus]
  • Motivation to participate in projects from requirements gathering through implementation and QA.

PLUSES:

  • Experience making apps that are intuitive, efficient, and easy for the client to manage.
  • Stone solid ability to self-test your apps and deliver reliable applications.
  • Web Services, API’s, Frameworks, Servers (Zend, Amazon S3/EC2, Facebook, Google, Xen, etc)
  • SOAP, XML, multi-tasking
  • Structured, organized, reliable, motivated, exciting personality

OPPORTUNITIES:

Visit http://www.manicmelon.com/web/mid-senior-lamp-web-developer/ for information on the benefits of working with our firm, and the email link on how to apply.

For more information email job1207@manicmelon.com.

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Sandro Groganz’s Blog: Starting Open Source Marketing Consultancy

PHP Developer - January 3rd, 2008

After moving on from Mindquarry, Sandro Groganz has decided to start up a new venture to help out the Open Source community - an Open Source Marketing Consultancy.

Due to solid demand, I will officially start my own business offering marketing consulting services to Open Source software creators and contributors in February. Clients will be able to choose from a broad range of marketing services, including strategic as well as operational tasks and social media as well as traditional marketing.

He will be offering services to help Open Source projects become more visible and profitable including creating marketing strategies, branding, positioning, public relations, collaterals and working with social media. He’s also providing some of the basics behind it all in entries to the wiki on his site.

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Stoyan Stefanov’s Blog: Text_Highlighter 0.7.1 and hiliteme.com updates

PHP Developer - January 3rd, 2008

Stoyan Stefanov has posted about some updates he’s been making to his Text_Highlighter PEAR package and to the hiliteme.com website.

In today’s busy schedules there’s less and less time to give love to our favorite open source projects. […] Anyway, today I found the time to fix two bugs in Text_Highlighter and also include the patch from Daniel Fruzynski that adds support for highlighting VBScript. Wo-hoo!

The update to hiliteme.com uses the newly updated package, so you can try it out before you go and install it.

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Matthew Turland’s Blog: Zend Framework and Remember The Milk

PHP Developer - January 3rd, 2008

Matthew Turland has been working on a new project as a part of the Zend Framework - a wrapper around the Remember the Milk website API.

RTM is basically a TODO list on serious steroids. It’s the Swiss Army Knife of task management. It allows you to manage multiple lists of tasks. You can add them easily from a variety of mediums, tag them, prioritize them, set deadlines for them, have them repeat, get reminders for them, tie them to physical real world location, and share them.

He’s even already issued a proposal for the functionality to the project to hep further along its inclusion. His goal is to get it included in the core for the framework within the next two releases.

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