Wed 23 Jul 2008

Job Posting: WHI Solutions Seeks E-Commerce Lead PHP Developer (Valencia, CA)

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Company WHI Solutions
Location Valencia, CA
Title E-Commerce Lead PHP Developer
Summary

Company:
WHI Solutions is one of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in North America according to Deloitte & Touche. This incredible growth is being driven by our award winning On-Demand eBusiness and Data solutions for the Automotive Industry. WHI’s award winning Nexpart suite of business management software maximizes distribution efficiency for manufacturers, distributors and their customers.

Are you interested in being an important part of a fast paced, fun and innovative business? Do you enjoy being challenged and delivering results? Then opportunity is knocking, answer the door!

Job Description:
We are looking for an individual to lead a development team in one of our product groups in the companies fast growing and mission critical E-Commerce development initiatives. This person must be capable of providing technical leadership to a team of 3 or more developers using best practices in application development and systems engineering. This individual must have excellent application design, programming, and testing skills that will be required to make enhancements to our web-based E-commerce Systems. This candidate will work with applications that span the entire supply chain from end user to OEM manufacturers.

Skills Requirement:

  • Experience developing web-based applications software, preferably with experience in the distribution, retail, or supply chain management. Automotive background a plus.
  • Must have 5+ years experience with the following
    • PHP
    • MS SQL and Stored Procedures,
    • HTML, CSS and JavaScript
    • XML
    • Visual SourceSafe
  • Building High Availability, High Web Traffic applications
  • Any of the following a plus;
    • VB, C, C++ and .NET
    • Java
    • Sybase, MYSQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL
    • Shell scripting, Perl or Expect
    • Experience developing automotive applications

The ideal candidate must have excellent analytical and organizational skills and be a self starter and able to work on projects as part of a team or independently. Good customer facing skills and presentation skills are a huge plus.

Education:

B/S Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
PMI Certification (Preferred)

Company Benefits and Perks:

In addition to paid vacation and paid time off (PTO), medical, dental, life insurance and flexible spending accounts (FSA) our benefits include a 401(k) plan, long term disability benefits and a flexible work schedule. Compensation is competitive.

Please visit our website at www.whisolutions.com for more information about the company’s products and services.

Please send you resume as an attached WORD document and include salary history to Ptrecruiting@whisolutions.com.

No relocation package will be offered for this position, local candidates only please. Candidates responding to this posting must currently possess the eligibility to work in the United States

WHI Solutions is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

 

Wed 23 Jul 2008

Job Posting: Adknowledge Inc. Seeks Senior LAMP Developer (Kansas City, MO)

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Company Adknowledge Inc.
Location Kansas City, MO
Title Sr. LAMP Developer
Summary

Adknowledge Inc.

Founded in 2003, located in Kansas City, Missouri and sales offices in London, Sydney, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, Adknowledge operates a central online marketplace (www.bidsystem.com) for advertisers seeking additional ways to market their products and services online and extend their reach beyond Google and Yahoo.

Adknowledge benefits advertisers, publishers and consumers alike by delivering ads that are more relevant than typical online advertisements. The company accomplishes this by utilizing its proprietary and leading-edge behavioral targeting technologies.

In addition, Adknowledge provides full-service solutions to a wide spectrum of publishers seeking to monetize their digital assets. Examples include search engines, email list owners, Internet Service Providers, Facebook developers, affiliate networks and web site operators.

Adknowledge is a privately held company with 110 employees, 70 in technology and operations and 40 are sales and marketing. Of the technology professionals, the majority are versed in programming, statistics and operations. Overall, our culture is highly focused on developing new technologies and product enhancements.

Job Description

As a Senior Developer for our Tagline product, you will be part of a team who is responsible for designing and implementing high volume LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) applications.

Responsibilities include:

  • Creating user interfaces to perform complex and customized server-side transactions,
  • Developing interfaces with back-end statistical analysis systems which increase the relevancy of advertisements displayed to end-users
  • Creating reporting and administrative systems to meet internal and partner requirements.
  • The ideal candidate will be individually driven with a team mentality and enjoy fast-paced and iterative development within a small entrepreneurial, technology culture.

Requirements:

  • 3+ years of PHP, MySQL, Apache, and Linux development
  • Stellar debugging & analytical skills
  • 3+ years developing in Unix environment
  • 2+ years non-academic SQL development with any DBMS, Oracle

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Familiarity with C/C++
  • Linux development experience
  • Prior experience in online advertising
  • Requirements analysis and design skill set

Challenges:

  • Learning the business of on-line advertising,
  • Capturing large quantities of data, and applying in real-time to optimization systems,
  • Creating high performance and highly available solutions through parallelism,
  • Creating and maintaining a company competitive advantage in a dynamic industry,
  • Rapid change within a small, entrepreneurial, technology-driven culture

Measures of Success:

  • Successfully analyze business requirements and translate into application designs.
  • Suggest features or improvements which enhance application yield, quality and scalability.
  • Create aggressive schedules for application features and complete on schedule.
  • Identify and resolve critical bugs/features within stated SLA

Please email your resume to Cynthia Cutler, Senior Recruiter: ccutler@adknowledge.com

 

Wed 23 Jul 2008

PHP Magazin: Marketing Open Source PHP Applications

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Sandro Groganz has pointed out a new article in the latest issue of the German publication PHP Magazin about marketing open source PHP software titled “Auf die offene Art”.

Good source doesn’t always speak for itself because the better product does not always establish itself without help. Why is that? This article gives some answers as to how a PHP-based product can be presented well in the market with the right marketing and community as a PHP based product well in the market can be placed through appropriate marketing and communication palatable to potential customers.

You can get your copy of this latest issue (German only) from the PHP Magazin website (with a cover story looking at the DojoX framework).

 

Wed 23 Jul 2008

PHPImpact: Enterprise Web Services Framework for PHP

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This new post on the PHP::Impact blog talks about the enterprise level web service framework for PHP, an implementation of WS02 for PHP - WS02 WSF/PHP.

It is the only PHP extension that supports a wide range of WS-* specifications. With the framework enabling the use of PHP in SOA implementations, WSO2 WSF/PHP is the ideal extension for integrating PHP legacy systems into enterprise SOA.

Federico notes some of the features of the framework including secure services/clients, binary attachments, automatic WSDL generation and interoperability with .NET and J2EE. You can find more information on the project at its page on the ws02.org site.

 

Wed 23 Jul 2008

Chris Hartjes’ Blog: What Is Really Considered Documentation?

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In this new post, Chris Hartjes takes a look at something that is one of the banes of most programmers’ existence - documentation. In it he wonders what should really be considered documentation and the importance of it.

As a committed user of open source technologies, the difference between me using something and not using something is the documentation. Is there documentation for it? Is it easy to find? Does it answer my questions? Is there someone I can call an idiot if I disagree with the level of documentation? These are all very important questions.

He uses the illustration of the documentation of the CakePHP framework that’s helpful, but only really after you learn how to use the framework in the first place. He mentions people on both sides of the fence - those that love the framework and love the documentation and those that moved on to something simpler because they just couldn’t get it.

He also mentions the variety of sources that can provide “documentation” for the framework when you’re getting a bit stuck - everything from blogs to The Bakery to a different sort of documentation, unit test.

 

Wed 23 Jul 2008

PHPClasses.org: Review - Delphi for PHP 2.0

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The PHPClasses.org website has posted a new review of CodeGear’s latest version of Delphi for PHP.

A new version of Delphi for PHP IDE was released this year. It is a follow-up of Delphi for PHP 1.0 released for the first time in 2007.

Manuel already reviewed a previous version of the software, so he only really focuses on the differences. He spends time reintroducing what Delphi is and how it plays a role in a PHP developers experience before getting into the new functionality. New features like third-party library support, how to run the software on other platforms (like Linux or OS X) and several of the updates to the user interface itself.

 

Wed 23 Jul 2008

Havard Eide’s Blog: SplObjectStorage

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Havard Eide has a recent post to his blog that looks at a part of the Standard PHP Library (SPL) that can be used with objects to store them for later use - SplObjectStorage.

In this post I will look at SplObjectStorage: a container that allows to store objects uniquely without the need to compare them one by one.

He lets the code to most of the talking, showing how to do the standard operations for a data store - adding objects (both unique and the same), updating objects in the store, checking to see if an object is already added and removing an object from storage.

 

Wed 23 Jul 2008

Jonathan Snook’s Blog: Multiple Validation Sets in CakePHP 1.2

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Jonathan Snook has posted two methods for creating multiple validation sets in the latest version of your CakePHP application.

In CakePHP, you define how your data should be validated by setting parameters on the validate property of your model. In version 1.2, there is an on option that can be set on a specific rule that, when set, is either create or update. […] Despite that, I developed a slightly different approach that allows for different validation sets to be specified and to be cleanly separated from each other.

He overrides the validates() method with his own in a custom model in one of two ways - having the script check for a validation set for the current controller or by specifying it directly with a validationSet property. Code for both methods is included.

 

Tue 22 Jul 2008

Zend Developer Zone: Zend Framework 1.6 Release Candidate 1 now available!

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According to this new post on the Zend Developer Zone (from Wil Sinclair) the latest Release Candidate for the upcoming Zend Framework 1.6 release has been posted - Release Candidate 1.

We couldn’t be happier to announce that Zend Framework 1.6 Release Candidate 1 is now available from the Zend Framework download site!

New features include the major Dojo integration, SOAP components and updates to the functionality for unit testing, session handling, pagination, character sets and much more. Check out the full list in the Zend Developer Zone post.

 

Tue 22 Jul 2008

Stefan Mischook’s Blog: How to call functions from another class

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Stefan Mischook has a (very) basic introduction video posted showing how to call functions/methods from another class outside the one you’re currently using.

Recently I was asked by someone how they could call a function found in one class, in another. This may seem like basic stuff to those of us who know…but please keep in mind, at one time, none of us knew anything!

You can check out the video here. Be sure to check out more of the great videos he’s created too on topics ranging from MVC frameworks to a beginner’s guide to PHP.

 

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