The following skills are essential:
- Working familiarity with Linux
- Strong PHP development skills
- Good competence with SQL
- Understanding of good object-oriented development
The following skills would be highly advantageous:
- Experience with Apache
- Knowledge of PostgreSQL database
- Understanding of character sets and encoding, and i18n issues
- Good understanding of Subversion and other version control tools
- Understanding of open source development and licenses
- Knowledge of Perl/Python and C programming skills
- Documentation and specification authoring skills
- Interest in open source applications used in web site development
Some level of understanding of issues relating to the following would be beneficial:
- Security
- SQL, databases and query optimization
- Implementation of access control levels and content management features
- Internationalization
- Internet protocols
- Architectures for large-scale database-backed websites
- Design patterns, UML familiarity
Contact Jessica at jrattan [at] this site.
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