Hello Internet,

I've been tasked to find a clone of me for the office (Oxford UK), and a mini mee. A scary thought really. Right so you need to be Scottish, like food, and moan a lot about the weather being either too wet or too hot.

If you don't have those skills then possibly your technical skills may do..so here goes.

Senior role:

• 6/7 years plus of commercial PHP experience.
• Understanding OOPHP5 in a MVC environment.
• Framework experience a bonus, we use symfony/zend, but don't let that put you off.
• MySQL, or just know how to put SQL together. Knowing how to use EXPLAIN in your queries and making indexes that work a major bonus.
• A preference for Linux over Windows (We can fight distros later), you need to be comfortable installing stuff from source if the need arises.
• Javascript framework knowledge, we have standardised on jquery but they are much a muchness.
• Happily working in HTML etc

Desirables:

• The ability to slice up PSD templates if the need arises, to valid XHTML/CSS.
• XSLT/XML
• Agile/SCRUM (Don't worry we've just started)
• Test driven development (Ditto)

The junior role:

• A degree in Computer Science
• At least 1 year or one project in PHP using OOP methodologies.
• Linux command line skills
• A keenness to solve problems and an attention to detail
• You will be expected to hit the ground running

Give me an email, jwards@whiteoctober.co.uk, with your salary expectations and your CV.

Oh and you must be able to get yourself to Oxford for an interview under your own steam and have the right to work in the UK.

Established and rapidly growing Chicago-based commodity futures brokerage and consulting firm seeks qualified candidates for a full-time employment opportunity.

Our firm uses the web extensively as the foundation for our financial-modeling & consulting service. In addition, technology plays a key role in our educational offerings as well as our marketing efforts. The ideal candidate will play an important role in building and maintaining these tools, should have 2 or more years of applicable work experience and meet the following requirements:

Essential Skills:

• Coldfusion, PHP, Javascript and HTML language expertise
• SQL proficiency
• User interface and user experience design aptitude

Other Important Requirements:

• Innovative instincts and an entrepreneurial spirit
• Attention to quality and detail
• Financial Industry (Futures, Options, Trading, Hedging) understanding
• Graphics editing experience and talent
• Microsoft Office exposure
• Comfort with Apache, Linux, MySQL

The position offers the right person an exceptional opportunity to learn and professionally grow in a friendly, mentored, and dedicated working environment. Growth potential includes excellent benefits package and competitive salary.

If you have the indicated skills and an enthusiastic, positive attitude, we would like to hear from you. Please email your resume to hedgeconsultant@yahoo.com

I've interviewed my fair share of programmers over the years, and I find personally that how you interview a 'junior' versus 'intermediate' versus a 'senior' programmer needs to change. Specifically in regards to one topic. What's that topic? It's giving a coding test (as well as just whether you ask coding questions in the interview)

He suggests that its especially good for weeding out those for a "junior developer" role showing where they put their emphasis. For a senior role, however, he suggests a test of a different sort - ranking their experience, their history and how much they've publicly done in the community (talks/articles/etc).

DESCRIPTION

The ideal candidate is creative, very strong software and database designer with strong OOD skills, can work independently, has good communications skills and can brainstorm with the team on new ideas. He/she works well in a fast paced environment and deals professionally with both teammates and clients in order to meet business and technical demands. Some of the responsibilities will include:

• Develop new solutions using industry standard technologies (specifically HTML, PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL).
• Provide input on web platform design and configuration to maximize application performance.
• Suggest code and design optimizations to improve the scalability of the applications and maximize performance.
• Demonstrate strong understanding of web application architecture and OO technology as implemented in a LAMP environment.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 2+ years of hands-on PHP with strong web application development experience.
• 2+ years of experience with MySQL, HTML and Javascript.
• 1+ years of experience with XML and Linux.
• Experience with Apache, Subversion and CVS is highly desired.
• Demonstrated ability to work very well under pressure and keep abreast of current technology.
• Excellent project management and multitasking capabilities.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills with little supervision.
• Bachelors Degree or more advanced degree in Computer Science.

COMPENSATION
$50-70K + other incentives

For more information or to submit your resume contact Adam Kennedy at AKennedy [at] RJByrd [dot] com

Want the chance to work with me? If you live in the Greater Toronto Area (we don't pay relocation costs or sponsor people) and know PHP, we may have a job for you. We're looking to fill at least two positions I'm aware of: nne junior developer and one intermediate developer.

There's a a description of the position in the post, including requirements and a little background on the company. Interested applicants for eaither type of position should send their resume on to Chris at chartjes@verticalscope.com with the subject of "PHP / MySQL Developer position".

She lists the requirements (including good PHP/SQL/UNIX/HTML & CSS skills, and knowledge of database design/Ajax/web services/etc).

To apply, send off a resume and code samples to jobs@omniti.com.

We are currently in need of four people:

• A junior PHP dev
• A junior-ish web designer (Photoshop, HTML, CSS, Javascript + ideally some coding)
• An Oracle DBA
• A PostgreSQL DBA

The job ads will be up on our website shortly, but if you are eager to act before then, please email me your resume at jobs@omniti.com.

You can find out more about OmniTI as a company from their site and more about previous jobs and how they hire from these two links.