In this edition I talked with Paul Dragoonis who is the CTO at BestBuys.com. [...] With varied skill-sets and having his hand at so many aspects and projects as you will discover when you read through the interview. He is currently "Rising and Shining" with the new PHP meta framework, named PPI Framework - (stay tuned with me, I will bring you an exclusive interview on PPI soon!) The PPI Guy also brews his own Whisky, urmm.. organizes conferences under the entity named WhiskyWeb..

They talk about things like:

• How he got started with PHP
• Places he's involved with in the community
• His advice to those wanting to be better developers
• A mention of his PPI framework
• Things he's learned from the community

  Check out the full interview here.

  ]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:15:43 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/18508 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/18508 On the 7php.com site today they've posted the latest PHP community member interview - this time it's with Eli White, the CTO of Musketeers.me (the group behind MojoLive).

  In this edition I talked with [Eli White @EliW], who is currently the Founding Partner and Chief Technical Officer Of Musketeers.me - a consulting firm. Eli was previously the CTO at the social career management platform known as mojoLive and has been working for numerous famous high profile web projects, namely Digg and TripAdvisor amongst others. He was also (back in 2009) the PHP Community Relations Manager and DevZone Editor-in-Chief for Zend Technologies Inc. Elliott White is also the author of the PHP book - PHP 5 in Practice and has attended 30 conferences (at the time of this writing) in which he was a presenter for 49 sessions.

  In his answers, Eli talks about things like:

  • Some of his interests outside of programming (like Medieval Reenactment)
  • What he sees as the current "good parts" and "bad parts" of the PHP language
  • He recommendations of resources for PHP beginners
  • Software he recommends (testing, CMS, e-commerce)
  • The best way he sees to get involved in the community (conferences, user groups, etc)
  ]]> Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:09:28 -0500 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10579 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10579 Company Eventures Location London, UK (near Angel) Title Start-up CTO and Development Director Summary

  We are looking for an equity partner to join two directors on a web start up. We have completed the application designs and are looking for someone to build it.

  Responsibilities

  • Everything IT
  • Provide technical specification for system designs
  • Architectural platform design
  • Design, build and test applications
  • System administration and maintenance
  • Building a development team
  • Clear documentation
  • Manage development budget and projected IT spend
  • Manage the business IT infrastructure - communications, computers, software, hardware

  Required experience

  • Architecting, building and deploying large multi-tiered consumer web applications
  • Building scalable, flexible, robust and secure architecture for high-traffic applications
  • Proven track record in implementing open source system development, maintenance and administration
  • Technical team management experience

  Useful but not essential experience:

  • Designing, building and testing mobile applications
  • Developing SMS delivery functionality/integration

  The ideal candidate will also be a passionate user of social media and be able to help develop and deliver a strategy across appropriate platforms.

  Contact Joey on 07846 431 352 or djoeyb@gmail.com for more information

  ]]> Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:09:13 -0500 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10190 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10190 Paul Wander has posted to the Ibuildings blog today about a new seminar (non-web) one of their CTO, Ivo Jansch, will be giving on the 10th of June at the King's College London:

  Are you a sophisticated PHP developer, or a newbie? Either way, you need to make the best of your resources, be they people delivering projects, or hardware serving your customers. Take this opportunity to learn from the industry experts the importance of PHP best practices.

  Ivo will be talking PHP in the Enterprise - how good developers are hard to find, keeping code up and running well and how important scalability is to you and your business.

  If you would like to attend, you can find contact information at the bottom of this page.

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