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Job Posting: HUGE Seeks Freelance Zend/WordPress Developer (Brooklyn, NY)
by Chris Cornutt February 10, 2010 @ 21:42:54
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HUGE |
| Location |
Brooklyn, NY |
| Title |
Freelance Developer (ZEND PHP/WordPress) |
| Summary |
HUGE is a leading interactive agency that specializes in building sustainable online businesses for some of the smartest and most demanding companies in the world. Founded in 1999, HUGE has developed a unique methodology and culture that combines the most relevant aspects of research, design, marketing and technology to meet client objectives. The online businesses designed and developed by HUGE generate over $8.3 billion in online revenue a year and are visited by over 150 million unique visitors a month. HUGE is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY with offices in Los Angeles, Stockholm and London. Clients include IKEA, JetBlue Airways, Walt Disney Company, iVillage, Time Inc., Target and CNN.
The Freelance ZEND PHP/WordPress Developer will participate in development efforts on projects for external clients. He or she will work with the account team, interaction designers, and graphic designers to design and build interactive solutions for clients. He or she will be responsible for working on the software design as well as building, testing, debugging and troubleshooting programs and scripts for various functions, and modifying existing code to add new features.
Requirements/Qualifications:
- The ideal candidate should have experience creating highly trafficked websites with high volumes of traffic
- Strong Object Oriented Programming skills and familiarity with languages such as Java and C#
- Strong PHP experience, specifically with PHP 5
- 3+ years of WordPress with strong knowledge of WordPress plugins and architecture
- Overall experience with LAMP and open source in general
- Good database skills and the ability to create and reverse engineer an ERD
- Experience with mySQL 5 and other RDBMS preferably Oracle or MS SQL Server
- Strong CMS experience with systems such as Alfresco, Interwoven, Documentum or Drupal
- Strong CMS Workflow experience
- Experience writing web services
- Experience creating REST based architectures
- Experience using ZEND PHP Framework
- Experience creating applications from the ground up
- Back-end development - Everything is processed at the application layer so they will not be writing Stored Procedures but must understand relational database concepts
- Experience in an Agile development environment - the product development is more of a waterfall environment
- Experience mentoring other developers
- Must have excellent problem solving skills and love technical challenges
- Must be self-motivated, and able to multi-task
- Must be able to take initiative to be productive and efficient
HUGE is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We strongly support diversity in the workforce.
To apply, please click here:
http://www.jobvite.com/j/?aj=oAGeVfw9&s=PHPDeveloperOrg
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Blue Parabola Blog: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics - Zend's Drupal Benchmarks
by Chris Cornutt February 08, 2010 @ 11:49:26
New on the Blue Parabola blog today, there's an article from Keith Casey trying to set the record straight on some recent benchmarks put together by Zend and Acquia showing the performance of Drupal.
While I have not attempted to duplicate or validate any of their individual numbers or conclusion as a whole, I have been a Drupal user for well over five years and have launched 30+ sites on it.
With this experience to back him up, he points out a few things about the report that either needed work or were misleading in their results. This includes a limitation on the web server configurations they covered, the statistics on Windows performance (might turn people off to using it on this platform) and the emphasis being put in some of the wrong places - optimizing PHP versus Drupal.
He recommends that, like all studies and whitepapers like this, you take the results as only guidelines and examples, not as absolute facts. There's always going to be differences in hardware, software and configuration so what gave the big numbers and results for them might not work for you.
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DeveloperWorld: InfoWorld review Eight PHP power tools
by Chris Cornutt February 04, 2010 @ 09:46:09
InfoWorld/DeveloperWorld has posted a list of eight power tools (IDEs) they suggest to any PHP developer looking for something more than just the standard text editors.
In this article, we examine eight IDEs: ActiveState's Komodo IDE, CodeLobster PHP Edition, Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT), MPSoftware's phpDesigner, NetBeans IDE for PHP, NuSphere's PhpED, WaterProof's PHPEdit, and Zend Studio. All of these PHP toolkits offer strong support for the other languages and environments (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL database) that a PHP developer encounters. The key differences we discovered were in the tools they provide (HTML inspector, SQL management system) for various tasks, the quality of their documentation, and general ease-of-use.
There's a summary scorecard on the first page of the article if you want to jump straight to the good stuff, but the pages following that will give you much more information about each of the options - the good and the pad points. According to their overall scores, though, Eclipse PDT and Zend Studio tied it up for the highest rankings.
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Arniie's Blog: The Zend journey that cheated me out of a decent certification!
by Chris Cornutt January 26, 2010 @ 15:21:14
Arniie had an interesting experience with taking the Zend Certified Engineer test recently - especially once he found an unfair advantage.
So we embarked on a voyage of PHP/Zend (re-)discovery, we booked iBuildings to do a re-examination of our PHP knowledge - a refresher course if you will. [...] In exam euphoria (and depression) [after coworkers had taken the exam] a few questions were discussed to demonstrate the intensity of the exam. I promptly 'googled': "PHP extensions using the dl() function" and low and behold: http://www.exam4test.com/200-500.htm
His google result turned up a page with 20 example questions from the test and the possibility of more just $49 USD more. The site was providing a direct means to pass the test without knowing much PHP at all. He notes that this one thing is enough to disillusion his about the quality and merit of the exam.
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Zend Developer Zone: Zend Developer Zone Announces the Return of Jayson Minard as Editor-in-Chief
by Chris Cornutt January 20, 2010 @ 08:38:55
On the Zend Developer Zone today there's an announcement about the return of Jayson Minard as the Editor-in-Chief of the site (following Eli White's departure).
In early 2006 I launched the Zend Developer Zone (as we now know it) with the intent to "advance the art of PHP." At that time we were also involved in many simultaneous efforts including the launch of the Zend Framework project, and an effort to take ZendCon up a notch. [...] I am now returning to Zend Developer Zone to retake the reins as Editor-in-Chief and once again go after my original goal: To provide a huge value to the PHP community with original, deep, example and situation laden content.
He's rededicated himself to provide the best of the best in PHP-related content to develop a resource that can help developers and those working with the language do what they do best. If you'd like to know more about Jayson, check out his profile on the Zend Developer Zone.
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Dennis Docter's Site: Zend Debugger Toolbar Extension for Chrome
by Chris Cornutt January 19, 2010 @ 14:37:14
Dennis sent in a submission about a toolbar he's created to work with the Zend Debugger (in an extension) for the Chrome Browser:
Since i have not yet seen an official extension for chrome (or i have not looked hard enough), i created one so i don't have to switch back to Firefox all the time, while I wait for the official extension. It only has the basic functionality (debug, debug next, profile and some configuration options) and it probably has some bugs and quirks, but it functions fine for me.
You can download this toolbar from here and if you have issues installing it, you might check out this post on the Zend Forums.
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Zend Developer Zone: DevZone Refresh
by Chris Cornutt January 06, 2010 @ 13:25:48
On the Zend Developer Zone Eli White has posted about a major refresh of the code for the DevZone website including several new features and updates on current ones:
The DevZone codebase has been upgraded today and some new features now exist to make your DevZone experience more engaging!
Updates include notification when articles are published, an update to how comments are posted, syntax highlight for code in posts, twitter integration on multiple accounts and plenty of backend updates to help with the stability and performance of the site in general.
If you'd like to add your own article for consideration, you can submit it here and you'll be notified if it's published.
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