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I am saying that working in an office on a computer doing PHP is working in an office on a computer doing PHP
That's certainly not on offer here
Would I have to ride 29ers?
Only if you really want to
I'm a PHP developer working with a creative agency in the north, and I'd say 23k is a fairly standard rate for seasoned devs. I'd have my application in if I was closer.
I suspect that for some people the following might help in the work life balance equation...
"we'll pay you 23K but the downstairs shed is full of modern shiny things that on occasion we'd like you to take for spin and let us know what you think"
Where are you?
I'm about 100 miles north, Mark. Bit of a long commute!
Mark - would you take freelance help short term?
I'm only up the road in Fax and have some time on my hands - wouldn't say no to some time at STW.
£23k sounds about right for a graduates' second job after Uni (once they have some real-world experience under their belt)
STW are in the fortunate position by which they use a VERY popular software platform - so the skill set required is very widely available. They don't teach Wordpress in Uni - it's strictly a self-taught platform.
It's not like they need a FORTRAN developer.
Combined with a (what appears to be....) friendly work environment, and the opportunity (no doubt!) to contribute opinions on the latest test gear ("Here, take this for a ride at the weekend, and tell us what you think"), sounds ideal for a young single male/female who loves bikes.
Good luck Mark et al. in finding a developer!
I'm keeping an eye out for ESL teacher needed.
I keep telling my wife that if we stop living in our Asian paradise and move into the little flat above ST towers, eventually they'll give me a job...
Some people aren't driven by money alone.
Yep, they tend to be the happier ones!
Combined with a (what appears to be....[b]endless free bike kit[/b])
When are you going to advertise for a Finance Director / accountant, that's what I need to know?????
If I was at the place I was in my life 11 years ago, I'd have jumped at his job. As it was, I took a £14k per year job straight out of my IT MSc, where used PHP for my thesis on building a MTB Trails website.
I'm a physics teacher now. Can't see why [i]anyone[/i] would leave that to work at ST 😉
*looks to see how quickly he can learn PHP and sell current house then remembers he has a wife, 2 kids and a baby on the way*
I'm out 🙁
I'm a physics teacher now. Can't see why anyone would leave that to work at ST
That would be madness 🙂
Eh I'm straight (ish) out of a CS degree, but started a PhD 1.5 years ago.
If this had come up a year ago I'd rip your arm off 🙂 . I'm a bit stuck doing this now though.
Good luck finding someone.
By the way... PHP?? C'mon I thought you guys were cool! I expected at least Ruby behind there somewhere. All the hip young things I know are moving towards Scala or Clojure for extra cool points as well 🙂 .
[b]chambord[/b] perhaps STW need a developer to contract out small tasks until the permanent position is filled?
Always worth asking...
Mark - would you take freelance help short term?
That depends on many things but not out of the question. Ultimately the amount of developer work we need now and are planning in the future means we need a full time addition to the staff but we do have a backlog of projects.
By the way... PHP?? C'mon I thought you guys were cool! I expected at least Ruby behind there somewhere.
Really makes the Rails come alive.
Really makes the Rails come alive.
Ha ha, very good!
If I was in my twenties, with no wife and no kids, and still programmed, I would up sticks and move from Newcastle for this job, as long as i could open the boxes....
If only I wasn't an asp.net developer 🙁 although I do have some php experience having to bludgeon moodle into working the way i want
27orangeninjas - I wouldn't necessarily let that exclude you. The PHP we need doing is advanced for a primarily Front-End Developer as I am, but it's probably not particularly taxing for a trained programmer.
This is all very well, and I am chuffed that STW staff keep growing, but does the PHP fu have anything to do with Fresh Goods?
It's Friday, look at the time!!!
Really makes the Rails come alive.
Nicely done. Can't beat an ultimately pointless "What language for X?", "What tyres for X?", "What wheel size for X?" debate.
xiphon, I've got plenty to do at the moment with my current work. Looks like a brilliant position for someone out there thouggh.
Like Peter above I too have no idea what all that gibberish is about in the job spec, but can I have the job too? Perhaps we can alternate?
Someone above mentioned Fortran.....now we did touch on that for a while on my degree....does that help? Plus I ride a singlespeed.
Still very interested to see how long it takes to fill this position.,.
<?php
print "Hello World!\n";
?>
Am I in ?
allthepies: May take a little more than that 😉
Thats whats google is for though 🙂
I can do COBOL and hold my own (ooh-er) in SQL is that any use?
Oh, and BASIC
10 PRINT "Simon is cool!"
20 GOTO 10
Yeah baby, still got it.
[code]10 PRINT "Simon is cool!";
20 GOTO 10[/code]
Is much better.
My masters thesis was "Producing an interactive database-driven website of mountain bike trails with PHP and MySQL, using an object-oriented web engineering approach" 🙂
[i]10 PRINT "Simon is cool!";
20 GOTO 10
Is much better. [/i]
Yeah, but I didn't want to show off 🙂