Via Chris Hartjes' blog:

Company	Squires Resources (Recruiter)
Location	Bermuda
Title	Technical Solutions Specialist - Development
Summary	A unique opportunity awaits in sunny, sub-tropical Bermuda! On behalf of a premier ISP/Communications company in Bermuda we are seeking an experienced and motivated Developer who would be interested in relocating to join their dynamic team. The successful candidate will be involved in: Applications design, Online (live web) and offline (supporting)applications development applications development, and Recurring HTML content. Working with engineering in evaluating requirements and developing plan for project resolution. Coordinating with Engineering on quality and design changes. Providing technical support to internal resources on internal systems. Providing superior customer service either on site or over telephone. Requirements Degree/Diploma in Computer Science or equivalent work experience. Must have: Excellent PHP skills including Object Oriented Design Excellent knowledge of web development technologies such as XHTML, CSS, XML, Web Services, SSL, OOD, AJAX, ASP.NET. In depth knowledge of SQL, PL/SQL language Zend Certified Engineer would be a strong asset but not required Our client offers a competitive compensation and benefits package (with only 4.75% tax!) along with the opportunity to live and work in beautiful Bermuda. Due to the relocation involved, candidates should be highly mobile and adaptable, with outside interests that correspond to Bermuda's idyllic and unique living environment. For more information or to explore this unique position, please contact Jason Squires, Squires Resources Inc. 705.725.7660 ext 23 or jason@squiresresources.com Thousands of professionals are enjoying unique careers and exceptional lifestyles in Bermuda and the Caribbean… Please visit us online at www.squiresresources.com to find out how you can join them!
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Stoyan Stefanov has posted a few suggestions that you should probably ask your host-to-be before taking the plunge, making the commitment and entrusting your life to them (well, at least your data).

know choosing a hosting company is not easy, mainly because of all affiliate sites that publish fake reviews selling the host. Just like most other things, it's pretty hard to find unbiased reviews. So here's a list of questions to ask your future host-to-be, hopefully if they say YES to all, they have a pretty good shot at being decent.

While he admits that there are non-technical questions that should be asked too, he offers up some of his suggested technical ones to help weed things out quickly. Several are more general types (cron jobs, parking domains) but others are more PHP-related (using php_value, changing php.inis). Check out the post for more suggestions.

Company
Location	Los Angeles, CA
Title	Senior Technical Lead
Summary	We're a small, successful online retailer/renter taking charge of our service by moving away from a managed application service. The ideal candidate is a confident *nix administrator as well as an experienced PHP programmer. In order to be considered, a candidate must be proficient in MySQL (architecture, administration, and usage) and a version control system such as Subversion or CVS. All candidates must live in the LA area. Applicants outside the area will not be considered. Please email a cover letter (to jenn [at] jiggerbug [dot] com) explaining what makes you perfect for this position, as well as your resume and salary history.
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On Alexander Netkachev's blog today, there's a walk-through of a light and easy method for getting PHP and Apache up and running. It makes use of the Installer Technical Preview utility to make live simpler.

I created the installer, which primary goal is to provide the developer with command-line tools for basic Apache/PHP/MySQL management tasks.

This a preview version of AMP installer and configurator. Although, it is very far from being a real time-proven and tested installation method, with your help and effort we can make it better.

There's a link for the download and a brief How-To on using the package to get things up and running quickly. There's also two things on the To-Do list for upcoming versions - installers for various other databases and support for automatic installation of modern PHP applications (like WordPress, phpbb, etc).

From Dhani's blog today, there's this new tutorial (part 1) showing you how to create a guest book for your site with PHP's help.

Proper development on any kind of project requires you to stop and evaluate the project before development begins (hopefully long before, but that's not always the case).

Having said that, let's figure out what we want the guestbook to do. What's the guestbook for? In this case, it's simply to let users view other visitor's comments and to add their own. The guestbook is not a stand alone application - well it is, but it exists in the context of the web site

There's a few considerations mentioned before the code comes along (broken up into the business and technical sections). With the plan in place, Dhani shows the database layout chosen, the reasoning behind it, and the actual SQL you'll need to create it.

With his own response to this post, Ben Ramsey sheds some more light on the misspoken technology terms/conventions that pop up over and over.

This is in response to Chris Shiflett's "Technical Vocabulary and Grammar" post. My comment became so long that I decided to blog it instead.

Being someone with a degree in English...

He talks about collective nouns being plural (making it okay to use something like "PHPDeveloper.org are..."), periods inside quotation marks, a suggestion for aiding understanding of actual commands typed for programming books (loose the quotes and go bold), and his own view on what "PC" really means...

It's not strictly PHP related, but Chris Shiflett has posted this new item on his blog today with a look at some technical vocabulary and grammar.

I sometimes wonder why people feel so compelled to use technical terms when talking about computers, even when they don't know what the terms mean. In my experience, those who know the least about a particular topic use the most complicated vocabulary when discussing it. I considered compiling a list of the popular ones, but since I'm lazy and have a blog, I decided to blog about it instead. Feel free to add to the list.

He mentions the incorrect use of the term "computer" when referring to hardware (overgeneralization), the confusion over very similar technical words (i.e. Orientated and Oriented, Depreciated and Deprecated), the pluralization of company names, and various other issues. Be sure to check out the comments for even more...