Company	Junxion Strategy Inc.
Location	Vancouver, BC (Downtown)
Title	Web Developer
Summary	Who We Are Junxion Strategy is a full-service communications and consulting firm committed to community involvement, environmental sustainability, and social justice. Since our founding more than 10 years ago, we've guided, branded and supported high-profile projects that build stronger communities, protect our environment, and promote social justice. Position and Duties Web Developer: You will work with a multi-player web team. You are good with people, and have the ability to work on a team. You are committed to sustainability. You are looking for a full-time on-location position. Duties: Input on user interfaces, develop HTML and CSS pages from design compositions, converting the code into templates for open source CMS such as Drupal and WordPress. Developing and enhancing open source CMS applications with module and plug-in integration. Using shared hosting control panels in the production of client projects, primarily for a LAMP environment. Related web development, production, and maintenance duties as required. Skills Required: A track record of successful interactive projects with 2-4 years experience building accessible and semantically-coded web user interfaces. Demonstrable experience with open source CMS and blogging applications for professional clients. Very strong to expert CSS, XHTML, javascript and/or AJAX skills, and intermediate to advanced PHP and SQL skills to work with common open source templating systems, plug-ins and modules. You develop primarily for a LAMP environment but are familiar enough with Windows/SQLServer if necessary. Core understanding of accessible design principles and user experience principles, interaction design and information architecture. For additional information, see our posting online at: http://www.junxionstrategy.com/about-us/job-opportunities/ Compensation: This is a 4-6 month in-house contract position beginning March 24, 2008. Regular 37.5 hours/week with competitive hourly rate for qualified candidates. To apply: Please send cover letter about using the web to forward sustainability, resume and 4-5 URLs to info[at]junxionstrategy.com by March 19, 2008. No calls or drop-bys, please. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
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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.

On AlternateInterior.com, there's the start of something that could be used to speed up the execution of your app - multi-threading in PHP.

PHP does not have threading anywhere in its massive core. We can, however, fake it by relying on the underlying operating system's multitasking abilities instead of PHP. This article will show you how.

PHP has no built in support for threading. But there can still be times when you've got lengthy code to run and idle CPU cycles you'd like to capitalize on. We can treat child processes as threads.

He (Brian Bosh) uses the example of executing five other PHP scripts inside of another through the use of a multi-threading class he's developed. Included is the code for both the class and the example code to use it.

DevShed is wrapping up their look at the Strategy pattern with the last part of their series posted today - a look at validating a user's input via the pattern.

In the next few lines I'm going to demonstrate how to use the strategy pattern in a useful case, that is validating user-supplied input. Sound like an interesting experience, right?

They start by show how to build a "validation strategy selector" that uses a switch to hand off the request to the correct validation function. Naturally, this is followed by the creation of those validation classes and an example of their use. They wrap it all up with the complete code listing to make cut and paste coding easy.

DevShed is taking a look at another design pattern today in part one of their look at the Strategy Pattern:

That's exactly the case with the subject of this article, the strategy pattern. To put things more clearly, I'm sure that you always validate adequately all the forms included in your web sites. First off, you create a few validation functions (or classes), then use these functions to check the validity of the data supplied by users, and finally determine the course of action to be taken accordingly.

To make the concept clearer, they Create a simple example - a file handling class that can read and write data to the file of the developer's choosing. This base class is then used inside their StrategySelector class to make saving both HTML and XML data as simple as a basic string.

Sandro Groganz has two new posts related to eZ systems today, one detailing their new strategy in the PHP market and the other, the set of slides from the eZ publish Conference this year.

In their new strategy staatement, eZ systems states why they develop the software they do, how it all relates to the eZ publish CMS, and a mention of their plans to built on top of the eZ platfom.

They look at the "mature market" that is the realm of PHP, noting it's a perfect time for them to make this move. They also talk about their development being done in "the PHP way", popular in the community. Their new focus is one driven by the community, too, adapting itself to the current climate of the market. They're also seeking to raise up the standard of their development, at the same time, raising the bar for other PHP platforms out there.

The second post just notes that the slides from the eZ publish Conference 2006 are now online. They primarily discuss the recent developments with the eZ platform and eZ application server.

Paul Jones has an update today onm his blog concerning the Solar Framework and some of the testing strategies surrounding it.

In the current release of .phpt test format, which is supported very well by Greg Beaver's "pear run-tests" code. The .phpt testing strategy compares the output of a test script to an expected output string, and passes if the outputs match.

Inspired by Greg's PEAR_PHPTest class, I've developed a bare-bones Solar_Test_Assert class that tests assertions and throws PHP5 exceptions on assertion failures. Add to that a quick hack to run all tests at once recursively through subdirectories (courtesy of the "pear run-tests -r" switch), and you get a convenient all-at-once testing tool for Solar.

He mentions also rewriting the previous Solar tests to match this new structure as well...

Robert Peake has a new note today about how Part Two of his Design Patterns series has been published in the latest PHP Magazine.

The latest issue of PHP Magazine is now available. In it you will find part two of my series on design patterns in PHP, along with a host of other great articles. Check it out!

In this part of the series, he covers the decorator, strategy, and observer patterns...