"The market for commercial web-based applications using PHP technologies is growing very fast in all geographies around the world," said Harold Goldberg, CEO at Zend Technologies. "Zend benefits from its strong position in this market, with an expanding list of major companies as customers and partners. We wanted to ensure that we continue our expansion and are therefore pleased to begin this partnership with TriplePoint Capital, a firm whose innovative approach closely aligns with our strategies in the web application market."

Zend is the company behind the popular Zend Studio IDE and the widely used Zend Framework rapid application development platform.

This group is responsible for providing customer facing applications that expose the catalog of media assets. In a rapidly evolving digital music space, the group is responsible for exploring new opportunities and defining the direction for the future of music discovery and consumption. These applications span mobile distribution, artist websites, social networking, media streaming, and more. The Web Technology developer is responsible for developing and maintaining several web based applications within the direct to consumer services group. These systems are core to global delivery of digital content including our mobile content application and our direct to consumer mobile store.

Successful candidates come from a Computer Science / Engineering Background with either a Masters or Bachelors Degree

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
The Web Technology Developer responsibilities may include, but will not be limited to:

• Server side web development
• Participate in all phases of the SDLC
• Participate in media technology discussions and rapidly prototype new concepts
• Communicate with mobile providers and media services concerning developing new technologies
• Design & develop new enhancements to cutting edge audio and video transcoding engine
• Extend and manage a highly dynamic distributed computing environment used to power direct-to-consumer applications as well as internally focused tools
• Focus on delivery of content to mobile devices
• Focus on content production applications using XSL and Object Oriented PHP

Environment:
Open and dynamic work environment in which the environment consists of small teams (1-3 developers) and rapid development cycles with limited and changing specs. Developers are free to choose OS and tool sets. Current code base is largely LAMP (very OO PHP) based, but includes Java and a limited amount of Ruby on Rails. Future apps may be more Java focused.

Job requirements:

REQUIRED

• 4+ years of server side web development experience
• Degree is CS/EE or related field
• Knowledge of OO PHP (Open to working across technologies)
• Expertise with data models and SQL
• Excellent problem solving, design, and communication skills

PLUSES (Must have at least 2)

• Love of technology for music entertainment (and able to prove it!)
• Experience with XSL
• Knowledge of mobile content delivery technologies. (BREW, J2ME, WAP Browsers, …)
• Rudimentary digital signal processing
• Experience with MySQL database and tools
• Knowledge of Linux servers
• BREW development experience

Those interested should contact Dana Bergeron - CTI Teksource, 212-453-9004 or dbergeron [at] ctiteksource [dot] com

I thought that, seeing as this is a programmer community, the people who have not had the privilege to have access to the forums where these things were discussed or access to the code itself might be interested in knowing a bit about the underlying technology and code that powers this website

Some of the technologies they use include the Zend Framework running on a CentOS with PHP5.2. Some of the highlights in the coding process included updates to Zend_Auth, using Zend_Acl for access management, content management and other various packages (like Zend_Feed, Zend_Form, Zend_Db, etc).

Now is the time to prove that we are all friends and Open Source Passionate after all. This is something I have been pondering on meeting all technological groups together instead of being divided, but I believe this push from Laura is exactly what Ireland needed in order to make it's outstanding Technological IQ even higher than it already is.

He's talking specifically about one opportunity - the Ireland Open Source Technology Conference 2008 happening in May, 2008.

We're happy to announce that Andi Gutmans, co-founder of Zend and an active member of the PHP development group, will officially kick off our upcoming php|tek 2008 Conference, which will take place in Chicago, IL, between May 20th and May 23rd, 2008.

His talk will be titled PHP State of the Union: Eco-System and Technology and will take a look at the ever-changing state of the PHP community and a look ahead to possible future developments.

G2 Technology is currently assisting a major client with a cutting edge development opportunity. This client is seeking a PHP developer with PHP 5.0 experience in a LAMP environment. The applications are web based multilingual international collaboration tools. This is rare opportunity to have the ability to develop bleeding edge Web 2.0 applications in an enterprise environment. Optimizations of queries within applications are essential to this position.

G2 Technology specializes in the placement of Application Development professionals on a project and permanent basis. The top companies recognize our specialization by inviting us to assist with their hiring needs. Likewise, the most talented professionals see the difference in both our level of sophistication and bottom line results. Our specialization allows us to take things one step further by truly getting to know you. Our experts understand your skills and can work with you to identify the best opportunity.

Position Type: Contract
Duration: 6 months

In the time since I wrote that post [talking about PHP with WebSphere], and particularly in the past month, there have been several items published which demonstrate the value of this technology. I still need to delve deeper, but here’s a quick summary of what’s going on.

He looks quickly at this combination, breaking it out into four parts - what the technology is, how it allows PHP and Java to work together, where you can download the needed software from and some resources where you can find out more information on implementation and examples of it in action.

Some of the topics that were mentioned in this week's talk include:

• what Ajax is/who uses it
• javascript libraries that support it
• a look at some of the technology (XMLHttpRequest, responseXML, responseText) that make up an Ajax message.

Be sure to check out the other talks on their blog including a PHP-GTK talk one and a look at the SPL in PHP.

Mike Potter our buddy over at Adobe, world class programmer and all around great guy, has announced his latest project The (unofficial) Adobe PHP SDK.

Cal also mentions some of the ways to help out and get involved with the SDK project including testing out the samples in the project and helping to improve the look of the samples already in the project.

You can get complete information about the SDK in this post from Mike's blog.

You work on a nice piece of open source software, alone or in a team. You can handle all you want by yourself. You plan everything, determine which features should be included, and of course you support your users. No problem. Until the moment comes that your software actually becomes popular. Popular enough to bring in a lot of new users. They all have questions regarding your software.

Instead of developing all the new features that you thought of, you find yourself more and more answering questions of users. From those questions, you get even more ideas, for instance on how to improve user interaction. But you have no time to work on those ideas anymore. Clearly, you have a need to offer more structured support.

He makes several suggestions of steps to take to a higher level of service to your users, including adding more people to your team and using other technologies (email, IRC, etc) to your advantage. Think about how many projects have channels over on the Freenode IRC network...