Archive for January 17th, 2008

Job Posting: Tenbelowzero Seeks Senior PHP Developer (Oakville, Ontario)

Company Tenbelowzero
Location Oakville, Ontario
Title Senior PHP Developer
Summary

You live and breathe system design and development and you have some great ideas. You are a team player. You know when to create dynamic user-centric elements and you are starting to recognize when eye candy is just eye candy. You are an energetic and highly creative individual who has both strong code design sense as well as the building knowledge and capabilities of web oriented interface design.

You are better than proficient in code creation using Zend’s design tools and are familiar with Zend frameworks. You can work with others’ code and yours is neat and you comment well. You can whip up some CSS by hand that others would envy for their page layouts. You are team oriented, hard working and able to conceive and execute solutions in a timely fashion.

  • 2+ years experience building large scale sites with PHP(4&5)/MySQL(4&5) based web sites
  • Understanding of OOP principles
  • Strong with AJAX, XHTML, XML, CSS/DOM, JavaScript
  • Detail oriented producing quality, maintainable code
  • Diploma or equivalent real world experience in web development
  • Working knowledge of ZEND frameworks & working with custom frameworks
  • Flexible self-starter who thrives on the challenges of working with new and varied technologies
  • Strong communication skills, works well in a team environment
  • Permanent / full time

Salary is based on experience and clearly demonstrated abilities. CV’s can be sent in PDF format to hr@tenbelowzero.com - Successful candidates will be contacted for interviews.

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The Zend Blog: Zend Studio for Eclipse

The Zend Developer Zone has pointed out a new blog post from Yossi Leon about the upcoming release of the Zend Studio for Eclipse:

Zend Studio for Eclipse is just around the corner. Very soon we are planning to release the product after few beta cycles were we got thousands of feedbacks.

They’ve added their “new level of features” that they hope will make ZSfE one of the better development experiences out there - refactoring tools, code generation to make some of the basics and PHPUnit testing to make it simpler to debug your applications.

You can find out more about the software and its current release over on its page on the Zend website.

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DevShed: Understanding Destructors in PHP 5

DevShed has started up yet another PHP-related series today with this new tutorial covering part of PHP5’s object functionality - destructors.

This article, the first part of a five-part series, introduces you to destructors and their use with PHP 5 programs. […] The word “destructor” relates to certain methods or functions of a determined programming language that are responsible for destroying data that, in the context of that particular language, shouldn’t exist any longer.

They create a sample class (for storing user information) and show how to integrate a destructor to remove all traces of the user’s information from the properties of the class.

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Sebastian Bergmann’s Blog: Support for BDD and Stories in PHPUnit 3.3

On his blog today Sebastian Bergmann has posted about new functionality that’s been added to the PHPUnit unit testing package for PHP - support for BDD and Stories.

PHPUnit_Extensions_Story_TestCase is a new extension for PHPUnit that has been contributed by Xait, a company that I visited last fall. It adds a story framework with a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) for Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD).

He includes an example of the new extension in action - creating a Story, adding Steps to it and the output that would result from the execution (reading?) of the example.

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Server Limits for Apache Security

In this fourth part of a six-part series on Apache installation and configuration you will learn how to set server configuration limits prevent information leaks and more. This article is excerpted from chapter two of em Apache Security em written by Ivan Ristic O Reilly ISBN 596 7248 . Copyright 2 6 O Reilly Media Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O Reilly Media….

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