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Job Posting: Red Ventures Seeks Sr. Systems Analyst/Web Developer (Charlotte, NC)

Company Red Ventures
Location Charlotte, NC
Title Sr. Systems Analyst/Web Developer
Summary

WHAT WE DO:

Very simply put- Red Ventures acquires customers for Great
Brands through a myriad of direct marketing channels. We combine
analytical marketers, high performing and often unique direct response
marketing channels, a superior web and sales infrastructure, with a
robust technology and reporting platform. We partner with industry
leading brands such as DIRECTV, SIRIUS Satellite Radio, and ADT Home
Security Systems. Red Ventures success has recently been recognized by
Inc Magazine with the #4 ranking on their Fastest Growing Private
Companies in the US list and by DIRECTV as their Dealer of the Year!

WHY SHOULD YOU WANT TO WORK HERE?

Red Ventures’ company culture is what
gives us our competitive advantage and what attracts top talent from all
over the nation. We give our employees the freedom to drive their career
direction and to create their own growth opportunities. There is an
amazing energy and determination to our team but it comes in a casual
office environment with no bureaucracy and no dress code. To be a real
player in our company you must be passionate about your work and we
expect that passion to run over into the rest of your life. Red Ventures
requires that our employees have a healthy work life balance where fun
and excitement are a common theme.

We offer unique benefits to our employees such as company sponsored
Happy Hours, Cook Outs on our back patio and quick games of 3 on 3 on
the basketball court. Tired of paying for parking? We have free parking
and our office is conveniently surrounded by restaurants, shops, a
fitness facility, and a daycare center. While we are very proud of our
current benefits, we look internally for suggestions on ways to
continually improve our benefits!
We offer a top-notch work environment for our developers, that includes
Eclipse with SVN using two development machines and three monitors!

SR. SYSTEMS ANALYST/WEB DEVELOPER POSITION:

Due to our growth we are seeking a Sr. Systems Analyst/Web Developer to
be in a lead technical role on one of our businesses. This position
requires the developer to have the business savvy to translate vague
business requirements into tangible and accurate technical requirements
as well as to anticipate future requirements within the design of new
systems. This person should have experience in real-world LAMP
(Linux/FreeBSD, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl) development as well as a proven
record participating and working with the business side of a company.
This person must be well-experienced in large scale complex database
design, query creation, and data integrity checking, processing, and
reporting.

The primary job responsibility for this position is to provide PHP
programming and functionality for a wide variety of consumer-related
websites, intranets, extranets and web-based applications. This entails
designing, evaluating, updating and maintaining OO and non-OO
applications in PHP with a heavy emphasis on database design and
reporting. This is the perfect opportunity for LAMP Developers looking
to play a key role in creating enabling technology for a successful
online and offline marketing company. This position will have a large
development component based on the business requirements produced during
business strategy sessions and day to day business requirements and
changes.

Successful candidates will have demonstrable experience building real
online applications in a LAMP environment and will be able to make a
meaningful contribution from day one. They will be comfortable working
with team members at all levels and departments within the organization.
These individuals will be willing to share their opinions and insights
with business leaders on a daily basis in order to affect rapid decision
cycles and effective technical solutions to business requirements.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Information Sciences or similar field
  • 6+ years of solid PHP and MySQL development
  • Strong working knowledge of HTML, DHTML/CSS and Javascript
  • Ability to translate business requirements into system design
  • Ability to partner and work in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment
  • Strong debugging skills and the ability to easily and quickly read and
  • modify existing code
  • Sense of humor
  • Desire to roll up your sleeves and dig into the work!
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Reinhold Weber’s Blog: 40 signs you really are a lousy PHP programmer

Reinhold Weber has put together a list of signs (40 in all on his “programming list of shame”) that you’re a lousy PHP programmer. Here’s a sampling:

  • don’t see the need and/or benefits of a good programming IDE like Zend Studio or Eclipse PDT
  • have never used some form of version control like Subclipse
  • don’t use a consistent methodology
  • don’t use test-driven development
  • don’t return content but echo or print it from your functions or classes
  • return HTML, not data, strings, or objects.
  • don’t allow intelligent error handling
  • you think reusable software equals/requires your code to be OOP

Now granted, some of them are a bit more high level than others, but if you’re not headed towards a lot of these, you might change paths, hop out of that comfort zone and branch out into the community and the language a little bit more.

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Scott Klarr’s Blog: PHP Cheat Sheets

Scott Klarr has pulled together a listing of the top cheat sheets that he’s found out there relating to PHP (and things surrounding it) like:

Check out his page for more (and thumbnails for each).

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Community News: php|architect Launches C7Y Site (News/Podcast/Forums)

The folks over at php|architect have consolidated their community efforts (news, the podcast and their forums) all under one new website - the C7Y PHP Community Website.

Welcome to the new community site. We’ve still got a bit of finishing work to do, but I think everyone would agree that this is much better than the old site! Let us know what you think.

Rather than having their community efforts spread out over their current site, they decided on on centralized resource where people can get the latest news, check out the latest podcast and interact with fellow PHPers out there on the web.

Be sure to check it out for yourself and let them know what you think.

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Community News: GoPHP5 Project Wraps Up

The highly controversial GoPHP5 project has come to his finishing mark (actually February 5th) and has been claimed a success by Robert Douglass, one of the creators of the project:

Congratulations are in order. Since the launch of GoPHP5.org, over 100 software projects and over 200 web hosts have come on board to support the adoption of PHP 5.2. As opposed to just a few months ago, it is now easy to find a hosting solution that supports PHP 5, and software developers can turn to the attractive new features that PHP 5 offers without the need to worry that they are leaving their end users without options.

He gives credits to Larry Garfield and Marc Delisle for their hard work towards making the project a success and notes that the project can stand as a successful effort that the community pulled together on to make development and the platforms we build on that much better. Be sure and check out the long list of projects and hosting companies that made the move to PHP5.

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