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Hey everyone,

it's my sincere pleasure to announce that we're looking to fill two positions for PHP developers (entry/junior) in NYC.

Expectations

This is what we look for from candidates:

• A strong and firm knowledge of PHP5
• First hand experience with the Zend Framework
• You've heard of PHPUnit and TDD
• An idea of what a HTTP request is and the different applications that take part in one
• You heard of CouchDB, MongoDB or Redis (generally "NoSQL") before

Last but absolutely not least:

We very, very, very much prefer people who contribute(d) to Open Source.

Playground

• A web start-up.
• The not-so-standard LAMP stack with: Linux, Nginx, PHP and mostly CouchDB.
• A lot time to play with Amazon Web Services.
• Size matters to you? Databases and indices in the 100 millions.
• Maybe Solr!
• Definitely Redis!

... generally, we always try to use the right tool for the job.

If you're interested, please email me your resume:

till+nyphp@imagineeasy.com

If you know someone else and we happen to hire this person my special referral bonus is a couple beers next time we meet. ;-) [Disclaimer: If you're 1821, or older.]

A small howto to get the latest redis-server and a webinterface on Ubuntu.

Installation

wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/redis/redis-server_1.2.5-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i redis-server_1.2.5-1_amd64.deb
/etc/init.d/redis-server start

... redis should listen on localhost:6379.

You may need to get i386 instead of amd64 if you run 32bit.

Tweaks

You may need to add the following to /etc/sysctl.conf:

vm.overcommit_memory = 1

... that is, especially if you run in a VE (e.g. inside xen).

All other configs are in /etc/redis/redis.conf.

Web

Because web interfaces are so simple, I decided to get redweb.

Dependencies

wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/python-support/python-support_1.0.7_all.deb
dpkg -i python-support_1.0.7_all.deb
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/python-redis/python-redis_1.34.1-1_all.deb
dpkg -i python-redis_1.34.1-1_all.deb

So, on Ubuntu, python-support is at 0.8.4 currently, but we'll need something equal or greater than 0.9.0. This is why I update python-support from Debian.

Installation

git clone http://github.com/tnm/redweb ./redweb-git

Patch redweb-git/redweb/redweb.py with:

index e79a062..e278fca 100644
--- a/redweb/redweb.py
+++ b/redweb/redweb.py
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ __author__ = 'Ted Nyman'
 __version__ = '0.2.2'
 __license__ = 'MIT'

+import sys
+sys.path.append('/path/to/redweb-git/')

 from bottle import route, request, response, view, send_file, run
 import redis

Run!

cd redweb-git/redweb/
python redweb.py

... this is a bit annoying. If you do python redweb/redweb.py, it'll complain about missing files.

Then browse to http://127.0.0.1:8080.

Fin

So this is my redis-server howto — nice and simple.

And once you have Redis up and running, feel free to browse over to Rediska and use their session handling for Zend Framework. Setup is pretty simple and it works like a charm. :-) I'd suggest you use their trunk code, which is hosted on Github as it will contain a few improvements and a small bugfix which I did.

For more on Rediska, watch this space. ;-)