Mardigrasday.com is seeking an experienced programmer. Responsibilities include:

Complete PHP/MySQL based projects. This involves:

• gathering requirements from the office
• designing relational database tables in MySQL
• coding HTML/PHP forms with validation/error checking
• testing and then deploying/debugging

Write both procedural and Object Oriented code. Scripts make use of but are not limited to:

• XML
• CURL
• sessions (basic PHP sessions and more advanced DB driven sessions)
• cookies
• reading from/writing to both flat-files and database tables

Perform database administration for MySQL 4.0.X database server on a Red Hat Linux machine in a colocation unit. This involves:

• maintaining data integrity
• monitoring for errors and recovering data in the event of a loss
• scheduling routine backups of the database to an offsite machine
• design and add new tables and databases as needed to complement the growing site activity

Perform basic system administration for both Unix and Windows based machines. Sysadmin duties include but are not limited to:

• monitoring and controlling .htaccess to private areas of server
• scheduling cron jobs for system backups and maintenance
• monitoring log files

When working on our various sites, we move each page toward W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) compliance. This means using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) instead of plain HTML whenever possible (avoiding <font> tags for example). It's a large task, so our sites are not W3C compliant yet, but this is done one section at a time when working on part of any site and the ultimate goal should be site-wide W3C compliance.

The most important part of maintaining our sites is keeping in mind the scope of the templates in which we work. Not only the visual layout, but the variables that control site behavior are in a long sequence of include() files for mardigrasday.com and accessfloorsystems and are incorported in an Object Oriented framework (phpLib) for the Intranet. These are two very different styles of frameworks and to maintain the sites it is critical to understand both.

Keeping our sites updated also requires an understanding of virtual hosts on Linux systems. All of our sites are hosted on the same machine and the filesystem can confusing if you are not able to follow symbolic links and read virtual host settings in our host's control panel (or prefereably in apache config files).

If you are interested in this position, please call 828-251-1939 to get more information on how to apply.