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Please apply directly via: http://tinyurl.com/yg6h6sa

PlaySpan is looking for high caliber Senior Engineers to help build new products/systems on LAMP stacks (PHP/MySQL).
Candidate will serve as a senior member of the team and will have significant contributions in design/architecture of the new products.

Your responsibilities:
- Design/Build/Architect consumer facing online property that brings in the best of web 2.0 features
- Provide technical direction with a hands on approach for the design, development. and systems integration

Online Resources...
http://www.killerphp.com/ (Great PHP Tutorials for Web Designers)
http://drupal.org/handbooks (Download the Drupal 5 PDF)
http://www.zend.com
http://www.phpfreaks.com
http://www.phpbuilder.com/
http://www.devshed.com/
http://www.zend.com/zend/art/free-energy.php

A REST Server is now available for the Services module, so that external REST clients can communicate with Drupal Services. In order to use the REST Server, you have to install the Zend Framework.

http://drupal.org/project/rest_server

The Zend Framework Module for Drupal ensures that the Zend Framework is installed properly and ready for use. It lists the Zend Framework version number in the server status page, let's the administrator change Zend's installation directory, as well as provide a nice API feature set to make the Zend Framework's functionality easily accessible to other modules. One of these API benefits is the zend_initialize($class) function that cleanly includes a class from the Zend Framework and make it ready for use.

This could lead to some very powerful Service modules that use the powerful web service platform.

http://framework.zend.com/

Some lucene goodies:

• Zend_Search_Lucene
  ZF-1262 CaseInsensitive.php missing require_once for the class it extends
  ZF-1263 DocumentWriter.php missing require_once for the class it extends
  ZF-1264 Default.php missing require_once for the class it extends
  ZF-1350 testUtf8(Zend_Search_Lucene_AnalysisTest) failing
  ZF-1351 testUtf8Num(Zend_Search_Lucene_AnalysisTest) failing
  ZF-1365 Zend_Search_Lucene::close() not setting or checking the $_close flag
  ZF-1376 Error in sample code of section 27.3.1.1 - Query Parsing

Zend Framework Beta 0.9.0

Zend_Search_Lucene: now matches the performance of Java Lucene

or so they say. We'll see...

• Zend_Search_Lucene
  ZF-96 Implement Search Highlighting
  ZF-295 Implement score normalisation
  ZF-626 Exception when adding document using static variables
  ZF-693 Using unoptimized indexing database damages storage
  ZF-943 Java examples are no longer necessary.
  ZF-1002 Document deleting/updating problem
  ZF-1050 Result sorting problem

For those keeping up-to-date. I'll be loading it next week.

They are claiming: Great performance improvement for Zend_Search_Lucene.

To answer some of Roberts questions and open up discussion, I've implemented a non-Drupal search using the Zend port