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My daughter is really enjoying it so far going through 5th grade math and working into algebra.

Marine Spill Response Corporation | Herndon, VA | PHP Web Application Developer | Fulltime | Onsite

From Me: I've been with MSRC for 8 years. It's a great organization and I have really enjoyed working. Our development team is always tackling new new and interesting problems. Modern LAMP stack. Organization is 100% Apple. We get to attend and speak at developer conferences.

Job Post: The Marine Spill Response Corporation is the largest, dedicated oil spill and emergency response organization in the United States. MSRC is a not-for-profit, U.S. Coast Guard-classified Oil Spill Removal Organization (OSRO).

We are looking for a creative and innovative full-stack developer who can help us build and maintain our Intranet, company website and various other applications. The majority of your time will be spent working with a small team of developers managing a number of mission critical web applications and websites that contribute to the support of MSRC's oil spill and emergency response operations. If you are looking for an interesting place to work this may be the job for you!

http://msrc.applytojob.com/apply/CDRJI3/PHP-Web-Application-...

The nose would be blurry as the lenses make everything in that area of the screen blurry (at least on the DK2).

They always post a video at the top of their blog entries.

Herndon, Virginia (DC Metro Area) - PHP Web Application Developer - Marine Spill Response Corporation (MSRC) - Full Time

MSRC is the largest, dedicated oil spill and emergency response organization in the United States and a not-for-profit organization. For more information about MSRC please visit our website at www.msrc.org. We are looking for a creative and innovative full-stack developer who can join our small development team that builds and maintains a number of mission critical web applications and websites. If you are looking for an interesting place to work this may be the job for you!

More Info & Apply Here: http://msrc.theresumator.com/apply/yI6ynJ

Herndon, Virginia - PHP Web Application Developer - Marine Spill Response Corporation (MSRC)

Not Your Average Job

As an employee of Marine Spill Response Corporation (MSRC), supporting oil spill and emergency response operations will be the most important part of your job. However, it will likely only comprise a small amount of your time. The majority of your time will be working with a small team of developers managing a number of mission critical web applications and websites. We are looking for a creative and innovative full-stack developer who can help us build and maintain our Intranet, company website and various other applications. If you are looking for an interesting place to work this may be the job for you!

Skills and Requirements

* Advanced Object Oriented PHP

* Proficient in HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, jQuery, MooTools, JSON

* Experience in UX/UI Design

* Knowledge of Application Architectures and Design Patterns

* Proficient in MySQL and Relational Database Design

* Experience with Linux Server Administration and Shell Scripting

* Experience with Git Source Control

* Image Editing Skills

* Ability to work well independently and as part of our team

* Strong desire to learn

* Can take direction and provide constructive feedback

* A minimum of 4 years of extensive hands-on experience in a multidiscipline Information Systems Department including software programming and traditional computer data infrastructure support a must

Requirements Specific to Oil Spill Response

* During oil spill and emergency response operations the candidate could be called on to assist setting up, operating, and maintaining the Emergency Communications Package (ECP). Additional response assignments may include operating the communications command center of an Oil Spill Response Vessel (OSRV). To fulfill these requirements, the candidate is required to:

* Be on call and ready to respond 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

* Have sufficient credit to meet travel requirements

* Travel to emergency response locations

* Be subject to MSRC’s Medical Surveillance Program and random drug screens.

* Must meet the physical requirements of the job, including the ability to lift 35 pounds

Benefits

* MSRC offers a competitive benefits package, to include a 401(k) company match.

About MSRC

* MSRC is the largest, dedicated oil spill and emergency response organization in the United States and a not-for-profit organization. For more information about MSRC please visit our website at www.msrc.org.

Apply Here: http://msrc.theresumator.com/apply/yI6ynJ

A magazine is going to hurt a lot less than a laptop when it becomes a projectile during an accident or extreme turbulence.

Mine is 1776. When it started becoming "favorite" number. :)

The ThinkVitamin Radio podcast is top notch.

http://thinkvitamin.com/podcast/

Agreed. Just starting listening a couple of weeks ago. The episodes are quite long but are heavy with content.

Just a word of advice to anybody using this approach - make sure to setup Apache(et al) to not serve .svn folders and files or someone will be able to download your code. I've always used a release shell script that does an svn export and just replaces the entire directory.

I was thinking about switching to Rails many, many times in past. I've messed around with it and coded up some util type stuff (probably not enough) and found that it doesn't really fill some great void that's missing in Python. Of course Rails does offer a hipper, younger, more vibrant community. If you already have a strong toolset in Python why switch? I don't write nearly the amount of server side code as I used to anyway.

Also Google still supposedly uses Python.

I've seen some frameworks that use flash storage as a last resort for IE6. I've found success just building in a ajax fail-over and then let IE6 or any other browser make use of the fail-over.

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