I’ve been working with a couple local people on developing a short term plan for them to get in to or move around in the web development job space, and I was wondering if there’s a need for something perhaps sightly more formal in the Raleigh area.  Here’s my initial sketch…
Weekly classes (probably Saturday morning) [...]

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My brother’s girlfriend is reviewing applicant resumes to schedule interviews to fill a recent job opening where she works.  She just found this cover letter and sent it over:
I am a [Current Job Title] with extensive experience [highlight a skill or area where you achieved measurable benefits] for [employer names]. I have [number of years] [...]

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I’m starting a new series today over at http://phpjobbook.com which will cover a number of job boards that are useful to PHP developers (in other words, they have listings for PHP jobs).  If you’ve got a favorite job board you’ve used with good results, let me know!

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I put up a job board for web developers which I’m going to promote in a webdevradio podcast shortly (likely tomorrow) which I hope will get the word out a bit more. I’ve got a couple ideas on promoting it, and also for a couple variations on the idea as opposed to the open-ended [...]

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This is the last in my MySQL conference series.  Brian Moon, author of Phorum and Sr Developer at Dealnews.com, sat down and gave a recap of his two presentations.  We have here nearly a full hour of his insights in to PHP/MySQL scalability, both with an app like Phorum and a more complex environment like [...]

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I’ve been meaning to do this some time, and finally found the time to do it – jobs.webdevradio.com is up and functional (though quite empty at this point!) One of the things I mentioned on my podcast (webdevradio.com) one more than one occasion is that I tend to attract recruiters. Rather than just [...]

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I just chatted with Manuel Lemos of phpclasses.org fame.  He’s recently launched a new PHP professionals center aimed at matching up PHP developers with people looking for specific skills.  The premise is simple – sign up, add your skill history (easier to do than I’ve seen with other systems) and you’re done.  The idea is [...]

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Are there recruiting companies that focus specifically on web technology professionals? Some headhunters will focus on certain verticals – financial, biotech, etc. Many recruiters tend to focus on particular geographic niches – cities, regions, etc. And when talking with some recruiting companies, I get the sense that certain recruiters in a company [...]

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If you’re in the Raleigh area and are looking for a job in the web development market, give me a holler – I’ve had recruiters calling night and day.  AND they’re not all calling with the same position.  That used to happen once in a while – I’d have calls from three recruiters that were [...]

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Actually, the ‘upgrade’ wasn’t an upgrade so much as a switch back.  I’ve been on ubuntu from dapper through fiesty, and switched over to mandriva 2008 yesterday.  I thought I’d backed everything up, but I’d forgot a few things.

Everything in /var

doesn’t sound like much, except that’s where my development php code was, as well as [...]

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