Amit Roseberger

Zend Technologies is looking for a Senior Windows Integration Engineer to lead its Windows Integration Team.

The full Job Description should be available on Zend.com within a few hours (after some forms are filled..)

But, for the quick ones among you, feel free to send CVs to Liat Mena – liat.m@zend.com from our HR dept.

Good luck.

Area of Responsibilities:

1. Responsible for the technical integration of all Zend Server for Windows deliveries.
2. Responsible to solve and report all PHP on Windows build issues and coordinate their resolution with the appropriate Zend department or with the PHP community members through the appropriate forums and mailing lists.
3. Responsible to communicate all PHP on Windows activity through forums mails etc. to the Zend R&D manager (e.g. update of used libraries, security issues, news etc.)
4. Provide second tear support for all Zend Server and Zend Core issues on Windows.
5. Provide first tear of internal support for both Core and Zend Server to the Zend QA team.
6. Work together with our Linux integration team members to make sure our build environment is aligned and optimized.
7. Responsible to prioritize and define all Windows integration development projects (MSI development, builds etc.) together with our Product Management team.

Successful Candidate Qualifications:

1. Ability to prioritize and coordinate action items for the Windows team members.
2. Responsive and responsible.
3. A deep understanding of the Windows API (Win32) and the Microsoft Windows SDK.
4. Real world, proven, experience with C/C++ development and software integration (MS Visual Studio) for different versions of the Windows Operating System (e.g. Windows Server 2003/2008, Windows XP/Vista, WOW 64).
5. Experience with developing in C# or VB.NET.
6. Experienced with the Microsoft IIS Web server (IIS 6 is a must, IIS 7 is an advantage)
7. Very good communication skills and especially the ability to remotely cooperate with other teams (Internally or third party).
8. Excellent read and written English skills.
9. Self starter, eager to try new technologies and getting a kick from solving complex compilation issues.
10. BSc. in Computer Sciences or equivalent experience.

Advantages

1. Proven, real world experience, developing commercial product installations with InstallShield or Microsoft Installer (MSI).
2. Experience managing a small development team.
3. Experience with alternative Microsoft Windows building environments (e.g. Cygwin or MinGW).
4. Very good acquaintance of commercial PHP Web solutions like SugarCRM, WordPress or Drupal.
5. Experience developing Web applications using PHP or involvement in an active open source project.
6. Acquaintance with the Zend Framework and the MVC model.
7. Deep understanding of the Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP stacks (LAMP).
8. Acquaintance with various PHP stack distributions (e.g. XAMPP).

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It is a happy day at Zend Technologies.

After major effort has been invested, another cycle is complete (o.k. almost complete..) and a new Zend Product is ready for Beta.

I was lucky to witness the product development cycle from concept phase to quality assurance and I can say that apart from being a very enriching experience from a professional POV,  it was also impressive to see a group of talented people work together on a  shared goal with such enthusiasm.

I’ll leave it up to you to try it out…

Amit

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deezer.com – this is the real thing guys.

This is going to be the Facebook of streaming, on demand music.

I didn’t even bother checking all the amazingly cool features they have there (blind test, smart radio, MP3 upload, all kind of preset radios and stuff). instead I started filling my play list with all the albums I could ever hear.

Have fun.

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A colleague (and a friend) of mine spotted this interesting on-line book called “Getting Real“.

It is a collection of essays, experience based recommendations and in general a very nice ans easy “Sunday morning read”.

As someone who is mostly involved in PHP  – I read it from the perspective of a PHP Web application development (anyone said Facebook?)  but I guess it can also contribute to development of software in general.

Have fun.

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Zenders all around the world are excited today with the release of the Zend Studio for Eclipse.

Although not developed in my group it is still a very impressive achievement early reports are very positive about the  product which is the result of a very close work between Zend and the Eclipse community.

Well Done everyone! we are definitely in the correct direction

The Zend Studio is available for download from the Zend Site and is now offered in a special price.

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In this satiric video by CRACKED the new Amazon kindle is being mocked as a gadget no one really needs.

That is extremely short sited

In the product’s demonstration video – Amazon refers to it as a “reading device” and I tell you it is nothing less..

Put the interface aside for a sec (I’ll get to it) and focus on the distribution infrastructure they’ve created and you’ll understand what I’m blogging about.

From Wikipedia…

“Amazon Kindle is an electronic book (e-book) service launched in the United States by Amazon.com in November 2007. It uses an electronic paper display, reads the proprietary Kindle (AZW) format, and downloads content over Amazon Whispernet, which uses the Sprint EVDO network. This means that unlike previously existing e-book readers, the Kindle can be used without the need for a computer. Whispernet is accessible through Kindle without any fee”

A couple of points I think are important to pay attention to..

1. By choosing cellular protocol to be the basis for the wireless connectivity, they made sure the Kindle doesn’t need a computer in order to operate. I am a big believer in ubiquitous computing so I’m not that impressed by the fact the Kindle doesn’t require a computer in order to download books. what is worth paying attention to is the fact that by doing that Amazon clearly states that the Kindle is designed to excel in one thing – displaying e-books that were directly (and cellularly) downloaded from the Amazon Kindle network. it is not meant to upload anything or to render anything that is not an Amazon rendered content (today it’s novels and news but tomorrow it can be Algebra for 6th graders).

2. They are giving Google the finger by choosing Wikipedia.org as the on-line rendered encyclopedia (Google has just announced Knols as their solution for on-line user generated knowledge base).

3. Interface – Amazon introduced electronic-paper display which according to them “provides a sharp, high-resolution screen that looks and reads like real paper” this is a technology worth mentioning as I believe it is going to catch a lot of attention in the next couple of years as electronic content is going to be more and more depended on in the education system as well as for day to day consumption of reading material (not to mention the use of non recycled paper is getting less and less popular). in addition, the Kindle’s interface can advance alongside the electronic-paper technology in the next few years providing you with a Kindle 2.0 that will look and feel much like regular paper with the advantage that it will be connected to the Amazon backbone of available content.

In other words, Amazon attempted to create the ultimate reading device, one that will be responsible for providing you with all the reading content you ever need and most importantly, it’ll be done via the Amazon store and the Kindle network.

Just imagine, for example, what will happen if the Kindle will be adopted as a standard by an official government institute (Like the American education system) – it might be the end of book lockers as we know them today

I am adding Amazon to my basket…

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