Washington, DC PHP Developers And Mission of Love Charities

Greetings and welcome to the DCPHP Blog . Whether you want to know what's going on, who's hiring, tips and tricks, or generally want to meet and talk with some other smart people, this is the place for you. We hope to be your one-stop shop for all things PHP in the Washington DC Metro region Mission of Love Charities, Inc is a community based non-profit geared towards building self-sustainability for families experiencing the effects of poverty.

Friday 28 February 2014

[dcphp-dev] [Job] Entry-level PHP job in Alexandria

Hello all,

This probably doesn't apply to most folks on this list, but please pass along if you know of somebody who might interested. We're looking to hire somebody who knows a little PHP and HTML and wants to learn more. See below for the full job description. This is a salaried, full-time, no-telework position in Old Town Alexandria. Please no contractors. (Note: we may be able to stretch our budget if need be, so if you're looking please consider applying even if you know more than a little PHP.)

Thanks,

--dan mills

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ENTRY-LEVEL WEB PROGRAMMER/ANALYST

Alexandria-based online giving company that serves non-profit clients is searching for an entry-level Information Technology professional to help develop and maintain its web applications. This position will collaborate with our senior web developer and work closely with operations staff to ensure applications are fully tested and meet customer/staff needs. Our systems are built on the Linux-Apache-PHP-MySQL stack.

Primary Responsibilities

* Provide manual and automated testing for web applications

* Gather information and conduct research to meet users’ needs and translate them into technical requirements

* Develop code fixes and simple enhancements

* Develop new application features

Required Skills and Experience

* 2+ years post-secondary education in computer studies or equivalent experience

* Experience with developing web applications in PHP

* Familiarity and experience with SQL Databases

* Experience writing web markup in HTML and CSS

* Ability to work from Linux command line, or willingness to learn

* Ability to work in a team to prioritize and balance multiple projects at the same time

* Self-starter with outstanding organization

* Good interpersonal and communication skills

* Creativity and *smarts*

Desirable Skills:

* JavaScript, especially JQuery

* Apache configuration

* Functional knowledge of Linux server administration

* Photoshop or graphic design experience

* Modern Web UI design experience (HTML5, CSS3, mobile & responsive design)

* Experience with Subversion or similar version control software

* Unit testing experience (especially SimpleTest or PHPUnit)

* Knowledge of MVC architecture and PHP implementations (especially CodeIgniter)

* E-commerce development experience

About Faith Direct

Since 2003, Faith Direct has been the leading eGiving company for churches nationwide. Our turn- key solution utilizes both technology and marketing to achieve superior results and service for the growing number of church clients and users. More information can be found at: www.faithdirect.net

How to Apply

Send cover letter, resume and salary requirements via email to: hr@faithdirect.net.

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Thursday 27 February 2014

[Downtown Dharma Listserve] No Morning Meditation Tomorrow in Adams Morgan

Hi Everyone,

I am out of town so cannot host morning meditation tomorrow. I expect to be in town for several months to come. Hopefully see you next week!

Paul

Whenever I'm in town I will continue to host Friday morning unguided meditations.

When: Fridays at starting around 7:45am
Where: Near the intersection of Columbia and 18th/Adams Mill
Format: My timer will chime every 15 minutes starting around 7:45am. That should nicely support options of 15, 30, and 45 minute meditations.

I have several yoga mats, chairs, and cushions for use.
Please consider bringing your own cushion or bench or whatever you like.

Further details: For complete details, such as exact address and such, please email me directly.

Namaste,
Paul

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Wednesday 26 February 2014

[dcphp-dev] PHP Developer Mid-Sr (multiple openings)

We are ForRent.com and we're looking for outstanding software engineers. We are a development team for the flagship division of Dominion Enterprises- a well-established Internet advertising company, We help people find apartments. We run multiple sites receiving over 3 million unique visitors a month.

Our company is primarily a PHP shop. We're looking for people who a have an interest in API Development, SOA, Automation, Unit Testing, and Test-Driven Development. In addition to just running traditional big websites, projects focus on mobile websites, mobile apps, advanced search logic, SMS services, web analytics, reporting, automated testing, highly available systems, user experience, web services, data distribution, email marketing, search engine optimization and various administrative tools.

As a Software Engineer, you will be responsible for developing new products provided to us by the business. It is up to our team of Software Engineers to digest the requirements, ask questions, and eventually build the products according to specs. In addition to building new products you will also be responsible for maintaining existing projects and assisting junior Engineers.

Minimum Qualifications

BA/BS or MA/MS Degree in Computer Science (In lieu of degree, five years relevant work experience)
Advanced understanding of PHP
Advanced understanding of Object Oriented Design Principles
Experienced in developing and maintaining MVC applications
Experience with version control (SVN, GitHub)
Excellent communication and teamwork skills
Excellent time-management skills

Preferred Qualifications

Advanced experience working with Javascript, jQuery
Advanced experience with database systems (MSSQL, MySQL)
Experience in C#, Objective C, Java
Experience with Zend Framework

We value developing working software over comprehensive documentation. We hire motivated individuals, give them the tools they need and trust them to get the job done. Our meetings are focused on collaboration rather than process. There are frequent technical training sessions both internally and externally on proven technologies and new technologies. There are various user groups within the company that meet once a month. We also provide tuition reimbursement and a comprehensive benefits package including a generous 401(k).

If you would be interested in hearing more details, please contact me. If you are not in a position to consider a change or this position isn't right for you, please pass this information along to anyone else that you think could be interested.

Please visit: http://www.previewmyvideo.com/partners/9/6/video/index.html?v=FRDEV640 to gain insights on how we operate and send your resume to david.raboin@dominionenterprises.com

Thank you for your time.

David Raboin

[dcphp-dev] Job -- PHP Developer -- Gaithersburg, MD

Hello All!

I am working on a PHP Developer role located in Gaithersburg. My client is looking for a candidate with experience in Zend Frameworks and experience with Mobile and/or responsive development!

If you are on the market, please reach out to me at samantha.falk@mondo.com

Cheers!

Tuesday 25 February 2014

[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Sublet available in March -- great room & price!

Hello everyone -- I attend the Sunday meditations at All Souls and Buddha Brunches with varied regularity, and know many of you. I am leaving the country in a couple weeks, and the subletter I had set up just fell through. So, I am now trying to sublet my room in my house on very short notice! So, I am hoping I might be able to find someone through this network (or your networks). Please see below for more information, and please feel free to contact me directly at stephanie.randall@gmail.com, or 303-579-3942, if you are interested. Please also feel free to forward this onto anyone else you know who might be looking for a sublet.

Many, many thanks!!!

Warmly,
Stephanie

Mount Pleasant Sublet: March 11 - April 30 (potentially move in earlier / extend to June)

The house: Our house is a gorgeous 100-year-old rowhouse in Mount Pleasant. It is spacious and open, with hardwood floors, colorful rooms, a bathroom on each floor and lots of shared living space for everyone's use (living room, dining room, foyer with bike storage space, sunroom, front porch). We also have a washer and dryer, good-sized backyard with garden and fire pit, and a small rooftop area. We’re in an excellent location -- very close to bus lines and Metro, restaurants, bars, grocery stores and local co-op, a Capital Bikeshare station, and Rock Creek Park.

The room: The room being sublet is on the second floor, is medium-sized, and has a good-sized closet and a tall window overlooking the backyard. Room is heated by radiator (which you can adjust), and also has a ceiling fan and window A/C unit. The walls are painted a warm terra cotta color. The room will be sublet furnished, with a queen-sized bed, dresser, closet, desk, etc. all for your use. I can also clear space on my bookshelves and offer some additional storage space if you need -- I am happy to be flexible to make sure you have the space you need! You'll share a bathroom with the two other housemates on the second floor.

The housemates: The current housemates are all professionals (3 female and 3 male) in their mid-twenties to early thirties. All have independent lives and somewhat different schedules, but get along well and enjoy having occasional house dinners and parties. We're a friendly group and enjoy cooking, live music, the outdoors, exploring DC, biking and traveling. As it's a large house (3 floors and full basement apartment), the house never feels crowded, as the housemates are seldom all home at the same time. All are attentive to keeping the house tidy and welcoming -- it's a great place to live!

Rent/Logistics: Since March is a partial month, it will be $600. April will be $750. This includes rent and all utilities (water, gas, electricity, WiFi and basic cable). There is a possibility that the sublease will be extended beyond 4/30 -- please let me know if you might be interested in this. We are available to show the room & house evenings this week -- if you are interested, please email me at stephanie.randall@gmail.com, or call/text me at 303-579-3942.

Thanks so much for reading, and please feel free to forward this to anyone else who might be interested, too!

Best,

Stephanie

[dcphp-dev] NOVA Happy Hour; Purple ElePHPants

Two quick things—

Unless the weather drastically changes and roads get bad, tonight’s NoVA happy hour is still on in Ballston. I’ll have some tchotchkes like php[tek] shopping bags and examples of php[architect] in print. See the meetup page to RSVP.

Also, if you missed out on the orange elePHPants, PHPWomen is doing a run of purple ElePHPants, so get yours now:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/77145396/phpwomen-purple-elephpants

Stay warm,

Sandy

Sandy Smith - http://musketeers.me/

php[architect] magazine: http://phparch.com/

@SandyS1

Saturday 22 February 2014

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Friday 21 February 2014

[dcphp-dev] Re: Composer vulnerability

Correction: I misread the Packagist.org stats. The repository contains 24,492 packages with 87,349 total versions.

I hit the "post" button too quickly.

David

On Friday, February 21, 2014 7:43:29 AM UTC-5, David Mitchell wrote:

Hi Oscar,

Thanks for pointing this out.

I think that composer is great, and I use it a lot in PHP projects.

I recently heard a talk at the Java Users' Group (NOVA JUG) on a similar problem with maven. The focus of the talk was using frameworks and libraries with known vulnerabilities. Some frameworks and libraries are not regularly updated, and some use old versions of libraries with known vulnerabilities. This is a big problem, especially if you run your code with super user privileges (see #9 in the top 10 vulnerabilities in https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2013-Top_10). The solution proposed was to manage your own maven repo so that you have a golden repo at a point in time. Sonatype (http://www.sonatype.com/) has such a solution for maven.

By the way, Maven Central has 260,000 artifacts and serves 70 millions downloads every week (http://blog.sonatype.com/2010/12/now-available-central-download-statistics-for-oss-projects/). Packagist.org has 142 million packages (24,492 packages with 87,349 versions) and about 160 million downloads a month (https://packagist.org/statistics).

David

On Thursday, February 20, 2014 4:31:34 PM UTC-5, Oscar Merida wrote:
Hey folks,

If you use composer to install dependencies, you should be aware that
you should be checking what its actually downloading when you run
composer install. See this post here:
http://blog.astrumfutura.com/2014/02/composer-downloading-random-code-is-not-a-security-vulnerability/

-Oscar

[dcphp-dev] Re: Composer vulnerability

Correction: I misread the Packagist.org stats. There has been 142 million downloads, since 2012. The repository contains 24,492 packages with 87,349 total versions.

I hit the "post" button too quickly.

David

On Friday, February 21, 2014 7:43:29 AM UTC-5, David Mitchell wrote:

Hi Oscar,

Thanks for pointing this out.

I think that composer is great, and I use it a lot in PHP projects.

I recently heard a talk at the Java Users' Group (NOVA JUG) on a similar problem with maven. The focus of the talk was using frameworks and libraries with known vulnerabilities. Some frameworks and libraries are not regularly updated, and some use old versions of libraries with known vulnerabilities. This is a big problem, especially if you run your code with super user privileges (see #9 in the top 10 vulnerabilities in https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2013-Top_10). The solution proposed was to manage your own maven repo so that you have a golden repo at a point in time. Sonatype (http://www.sonatype.com/) has such a solution for maven.

By the way, Maven Central has 260,000 artifacts and serves 70 millions downloads every week (http://blog.sonatype.com/2010/12/now-available-central-download-statistics-for-oss-projects/). Packagist.org has 142 million packages (24,492 packages with 87,349 versions) and about 160 million downloads a month (https://packagist.org/statistics).

David

[dcphp-dev] Re: Composer vulnerability

Hi Oscar,

Thanks for pointing this out.

I think that composer is great, and I use it a lot in PHP projects.

I recently heard a talk at the Java Users' Group (NOVA JUG) on a similar problem with maven. The focus of the talk was using frameworks and libraries with known vulnerabilities. Some frameworks and libraries are not regularly updated, and some use old versions of libraries with known vulnerabilities. This is a big problem, especially if you run your code with super user privileges (see #9 in the top 10 vulnerabilities in https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2013-Top_10). The solution proposed was to manage your own maven repo so that you have a golden repo at a point in time. Sonatype (http://www.sonatype.com/) has such a solution for maven.

By the way, Maven Central has 260,000 artifacts and serves 70 millions downloads every week (http://blog.sonatype.com/2010/12/now-available-central-download-statistics-for-oss-projects/). Packagist.org has 142 million packages (24,492 packages with 87,349 versions) and about 160 million downloads a month (https://packagist.org/statistics).

David

On Thursday, February 20, 2014 4:31:34 PM UTC-5, Oscar Merida wrote:

Hey folks,

If you use composer to install dependencies, you should be aware that
you should be checking what its actually downloading when you run
composer install. See this post here:
http://blog.astrumfutura.com/2014/02/composer-downloading-random-code-is-not-a-security-vulnerability/

-Oscar

[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Is anyone going to Hugh Byrne's Awakening to Peace Through Mindfulness Meditation Will anyone workshop this Saturday?

Hello everyone,

Will anyone else be attending Hugh Byrne's 5:30 to 9:00 pm workshop
this Saturday night? These retreats are a great oasis. It might me
nice to meet for tea beforehand.

Registration site: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/home.asp?studioid=736

Description: "Awakening to Peace Through Mindfulness Meditation with
Hugh Byrne: Insight or Mindfulness Meditation is the simple practice
of paying attention on a moment-to-moment basis to our own direct
experience. This practice of mindfulness allows us to see more clearly
our patterns and habits of holding and resistance, and to accept more
fully the pleasure and pain, fear and joy, sadness and happiness that
occur in life. As our insights deepen, we develop greater peace and
equanimity in the face of change, and wisdom and compassion
increasingly become the guiding force in our lives.

These monthly half-day "immersions" are ably led by Dr. Hugh Byrne,
and are open to new and experienced practitioners.

During the immersion we will alternate periods of instruction,
practice sitting and walking meditations and have dialogue. Reserve
your space bring a friend!"

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Thursday 20 February 2014

[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Friday Morning Meditation in Adams Morgan

Hi everyone - I will be outside of the Washington area tomorrow and the following Friday. This means I won't be able to host morning meditation those two days.

Look forward to hosting again on March 7.

Namaste,
Paul

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[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Join with sangha for food/drink after class on March 2

Hello sangha friends,

If you'd like to celebrate the first meeting of our sangha in our new space, please join us after class on March 2 for food or drink.

For those of you interested in joining for this, we'll leave right after class to whatever nearby restaurant strikes our collective fancy.

Hope to see you!

With metta,

Rebecca

[dcphp-dev] Composer vulnerability

Hey folks,

If you use composer to install dependencies, you should be aware that
you should be checking what its actually downloading when you run
composer install. See this post here:
http://blog.astrumfutura.com/2014/02/composer-downloading-random-code-is-not-a-security-vulnerability/

-Oscar

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Wednesday 19 February 2014

[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Re: Volunteer opportunities with the Sangha - Loaves and Fishes

The date for our volunteer opportunity with Loaves and Fishes has changed. We will now volunteer on Sunday, March 16, from 11-2pm (instead of Sat. March 22). If you would like to participate, please email me at danya.greenfield@gmail.com - even if you initially RSVPd for the first date, please reconfirm if you are able to join for March 16 - apologies for the change.

Loaves and Fishes addresses the issue of homelessness and poverty by providing meals to hungry and needy individuals. http://loavesandfishesdc.org/. It is located at St. Stephen's Church at 1525 Newton St, NW DC.

They provide weekly volunteer opportunities, and I've signed us up for two dates: Sunday March 16 and Sunday May 18 from 11am-2pm. We will help set up the dining room and then serve meals: the work is primarily plating and serving food, restaurant style to each seated guest. We can come with a group as large as 15 people; I'll take volunteers on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Danya

Some Background information about Loaves and Fishes:

Loaves and Fishes began as an outgrowth of St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church's practice in the mid-1960s of providing meals after Sunday services. When hungry nonchurchgoers began to appear in considerable numbers, the congregation launched a meals ministry and named the program Loaves and Fishes after the miracle described in the gospels. As Loaves and Fishes grew, other churches stepped in to help. We are now sustained by a partnership with 11 other churches, many of them in the suburbs, and diverse foundations, community groups, and individuals.

Our mission and goals are two-fold: to feed the hungry in our community and to educate volunteers and community members about hunger and homelessness. We are proud to serve a warm, healthy lunch to all who come to us without regard to their age, race, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, religious affiliation, or lack of it. We invite you to join us, as a guest, volunteer, or financial supporter. Meals are available around noon on weekends and federal holidays at St. Stephen and the Incarnation Church:

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On Thursday, January 30, 2014 11:31:35 AM UTC-5, Danya Greenfield wrote:

Dear fellow sangha friends,
The topic of our last buddha brunch was "engaged Buddhism", and while we talked a lot about how to translate mindfulness practices into our work life and day-to-day experiences, we also agreed that an important way to carry the idea of lovingkindness and compassion into the world would be to engage in volunteer work together as a sangha.
We discussed wanting to do a service-oriented project (not something political) and to be involved with the local community right around the sangha and where many of us live. I've found a good opportunity volunteering with Loaves and Fishes, which addresses the issue of homelessness and poverty by providing meals to hungry and needy individuals. http://loavesandfishesdc.org/. It is located at St. Stephen's Church at 1525 Newton St, NW DC.
They provide weekly volunteer opportunities, and I've signed us up for two dates: Saturday March 22 and Sunday May 18 from 11am-2pm. We will help set up the dining room and then serve meals: the work is primarily plating and serving food, restaurant style to each seated guest. We can come with a group as large as 15 people; I'll take volunteers on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please email me (danya.greenfield@gmail.com) if you would like to join and let me know for which date. If you have any questions, let me know. I'll post again when it's closer to the date.
Thanks!
Danya

Some Background information about Loaves and Fishes:

Loaves and Fishes began as an outgrowth of St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church's practice in the mid-1960s of providing meals after Sunday services. When hungry nonchurchgoers began to appear in considerable numbers, the congregation launched a meals ministry and named the program Loaves and Fishes after the miracle described in the gospels. As Loaves and Fishes grew, other churches stepped in to help. We are now sustained by a partnership with 11 other churches, many of them in the suburbs, and diverse foundations, community groups, and individuals.
Our mission and goals are two-fold: to feed the hungry in our community and to educate volunteers and community members about hunger and homelessness. We are proud to serve a warm, healthy lunch to all who come to us without regard to their age, race, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, religious affiliation, or lack of it. We invite you to join us, as a guest, volunteer, or financial supporter. Meals are available around noon on weekends and federal holidays at St. Stephen and the Incarnation Church:

Tuesday 18 February 2014

[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Friday Morning Meditation in Adams Morgan

End your week/ start your weekend well with a morning meditation!

Whenever I'm in town I will continue to host Friday morning unguided meditations.

[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Still-point Qigong & Mediation at All Souls this Sat.

Greetings,
This Saturday, Feb. 22, we will be holding our Finding Your Still-point with Qigong and Meditation class. We will have the class one more time, Sat. March 8 before the renovation of the Church begins.We expect to resume classes after the renovation is complete.

We gather in the All Souls Eaton Room at 1500 Harvard St. NW from 10 am to Noon. . We will do about 40 minutes of Qigong to cultivate balance and good health, and about a half hour each of Deep Relaxation and Guided Meditation to refresh our bodies and quiet our minds. We will have some time for talking about the applying the practices to our daily life.

No prior experience needed - all levels of experience welcome. Chairs are provided. If you want to be on the floor for relaxation and/or meditation bring a mat, cushion or blanket. A shawl or sweater may also be useful.

A $20 donation at the class is suggested.

If you have any questions, please reply to this email or call me at 301-439-4815.

I hope you can join us for these two classes.

~PeacePeter

In gladness and in safety

May we all be at ease

Monday 17 February 2014

[dcphp-dev] [Job] PHP Developer, Alexandria, VA

The team from GlobalThinking is looking for a few good developers to join their growing team. If you or someone you know is looking for a great place to work with some terrific peers and management then I would recommend checking them out. Please note that this ad links directly to the team's job listing. You can also visit http://www.globalthinking.com and apply via the career page.

PHP Developer, GlobalThinking, Alexandria, VA

Our Application Developers create more than just cookie-cutter software. You will play an integral part in developing web software and systems for all sorts of clients: from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, from defense contractors to big charities. For more information visit us at http://www.globalthinking.com today.

Many of our existing systems run on the LAMP stack. But when you're building a project, you can use whatever tools and frameworks you feel are right for the job.

What You'll Be Doing
• Customizing existing web applications and CMS
• Developing LAMP applications from conception to delivery
• Deploying and supporting web servers in a production environment
• Working on projects involving heavy data mining and data manipulation
• Collaborating with other developers to improve internal processes
• Working in a multi-platform environment (Mac/Linux/Windows)
• Constantly learning and growing in the tech community
• Challenging your knowledge in the field of web development

Required Experience
• PHP/MySQL application development
• HTML/CSS/Javascript
• Apache web server and Linux administration
• Version control (Git)

The ideal candidate will have at least 2 years of post-collegiate work experience, but we'll consider applications from recent grads with great portfolios.

How to Apply
Please send your resume, cover letter and work samples using the apply option below. When responding to this ad please describe the role you played in the samples provided.

https://sortiq.com/jobs/show/654

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Equity & Commodity Broker,

Jamnagar.Gujarat.

Mobile No.: 090990 10827.

Sunday 16 February 2014

[dcphp-dev] Heads Up - Kickstarter Hacked

"On Wednesday night, law enforcement officials contacted Kickstarter
and alerted us that hackers had sought and gained unauthorized access
to some of our customers' data..."

According to the message I got, no credit card numbers were exposed,
but user names and passwords were exposed. Recommendation is change
your Kickstarter password and the passwords of any other accounts
where you use the same password as on Kickstarter.

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[Downtown Dharma Listserve] Morning Meditation - Tomorrow in Adams Morgan

Happy snow day everyone!

I'm quite touched by the positive response I've received. I will be home in the morning and hope you can come and join if you want. Details repeated below.

Stay warm and well,
Paul

End your week/ start your weekend well with a morning meditation!

Starting this Friday, 14 Feb, I will host an unguided meditation on Friday mornings.

When: Fridays at starting around 7:45am
Where: Near the intersection of Columbia and 18th/Adams Mill
Format: My timer will chime every 15 minutes starting around 7:45am. That should nicely support options of 15, 30, and 45 minute meditations.

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[dcphp-dev] Re: Being a programmer at 55

Great post, Oscar. I agree with a lot of what TheCodist wrote. Sometimes I work longer when I am in the zone, and sometimes the chain pointers just won't hang together, so I go play with the dog. And today I never underestimate the value of sleep to the logical/creative process!

Mostly the biggest difference that has come with age is learning the software funhouse of PHP and finally being smart enough to amass a teaching library of examples. It really doesn't do me any good to remember all the nuances of an email pipe or a cURL post request, but on the occasions when I need the knowledge, I can go back to my well-documented example, with all of the comments that explained the key points. A consequence of this discipline has been that I can address all of the small challenges much faster than I could have when I worked in older programming languages, where I did not keep detailed notes and well-commented examples. And as we all know, the larger challenges are made up of small challenges. My PHP library gives me the time I need to concentrate on other things that I'm not so good at, because I know I'll be able to blow through the PHP part of things.

If I could give one bit of advice to any new programmer it would be, "Slow down, save your work, write good comments, and come back to it in a month (whether you need to or not) to see if the comments still make sense." If I could give one bit of advice to any new programming team it would be, "Work together, collaborate, develop consensus around every difficult issue, then come back to it in a month and see if the decisions still make sense." I worked for a while with a young man who measured his life by the number of commits. He would work in isolation late into the night (sometimes into the morning) and when he came to the daily stand-up he was so sleep deprived that he couldn't explain what he had done the night before. So we had to start reading his code in order to try to figure it out. Invariably it was sparsely commented and often had the code smell of a self-absorbed thought process. I never tried to prove it, but I harbored the idea that his contribution to the project was actually a net minus because of all the team time lost trying to understand what he was doing. No doubt he was a brilliant problem solver at the algorithmic level. I wonder how much more effective our team might have been if he had been more of a team player, more reflective and better able to express his ideas in natural language. I am sure the team could have learned a lot from him.

Does it really take 10,000 hours to achieve proficiency? Maybe not. Maybe it takes 10,000 challenges. It's interesting to try to handle the "help desk" activities for a while. Deal with other people's problems. It will teach you a lot about your own thought processes. A good way to do this is tackle questions on Experts-Exchange or StackOverflow. If you accept one challenge a day with your morning coffee, in a year you will have wrestled down a couple of hundred problems. You'll have done some well and some not so well, but it will have given you a variety of interesting questions and it's a great way to get a head start on the teaching library.

On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 11:49:22 AM UTC-5, Oscar Merida wrote:

Wednesday 12 February 2014

[dcphp-dev] [Job] PHP Developer Mid-Sr

Hello!

My name is Gabriel Camut and I am an IT Recruiting Associate with HireStrategy. We currently have several PHP developer positions available in the Northern Virginia and DC area. If you or someone you know are in the market for a new position, feel free to email me at gcamut@hirestrategy.com. We strictly work in the greater metro area, meaning our client base is local and we've established our relationships in the DC market for the last 14 years. I strictly recruit for positions in web/app development and I'd enjoy networking with anyone actively or passively looking for new opportunities in the area. I have included the job description below for one of the positions.

Software Engineer – McLean, VA

The ideal candidate should have a firm understanding of PHP web development, as well as experience with relational databases such as MySQL or Postgres.

The ideal candidate should be able to work in a group as well as on his or her own with minimal supervision.

Required Qualifications and Skills
A candidate for this position must possess:
• 4+ years' experience developing web applications
• Hands-on knowledge of the PHP / LAMP Stack programming languages
• The skills you will need to be successful in this role are primarily open source – PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, Postgres, MySQL, etc…
• Good understanding of clean coding standards and practices.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills and ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of people
• Enthusiasm to want to develop cutting edge technology and solutions in a fast-paced and dynamically changing environment

Desired Experience
A candidate for this position may also possess the following skills & experience:
• Good understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts
• Experience architecting, documenting, and developing large, high volume, high availability web products
• Experience with source/version control software
• Experience writing systems based applications in C/C++
• Experience integrating XML or JSON-based web services
• Experience with PHP and JavaScript frameworks
• Knowledge of relational databases - MySQL and Postgres
• Exposure to additional front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, LESS, or JavaScript
• Mobile development
• Experience with video player development such as flowplayer

Best,

Gabriel Camut, Associate
Technology Contract Staffing
Office: 703-547-6746
Email: gcamut@hirestrategy.com