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Wednesday, January 23. 2008

New Job Announcement

Following on from my post about needing a new job, the observant among you may have noticed that I have yet to post the promised sequel about myself and my skills. That's because I don't need to - I have a job! I will soon start a job with IBuildings, an amazing and energetic set of people, and I'm wildly excited. They are based in London but I'll be telecommuting most of the time.

Its been a funny few months, I've been very active in the PHP community, mostly because I've needed some professional support and they are a wonderful set of people. They have been graceful to accept my attempts to contribute to the community and have supported and encouraged me every step of the way. Through this I came to do a PHP|Abstract podcast, a talk at a BarCamp, quickly followed by being stalked and offered a job by a very good local-ish employer. I ended up passing on the opportunity because it was the kind of local that is too far and awkward to do in the rush hour for every day, however the experience was amazing and I met some great people in the process. I studied for and managed to pass my ZCE exam, and in the same week parted company with my employers of almost a year. In the last five days I have communicated with some superstars from my industry, looked over my shoulder to find the other lornajane that surely they are actually looking for, received two excellent job offers from two uber cool companies, and accepted one of those offers. I owe thanks to many, many people for the moral support, listening and general egging-on they supplied - guys, you know who you are.

After all that - I need a nice cup of tea and a sit down ... :)
Posted by LornaJane in work at 23:40 | Comments (17)
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Grats Lorna, they’re a great bunch! :)

#1 Richard Harrison (Homepage) on 2008-01-24 01:14

Exciting news!

#2 Chris Jones (Homepage) on 2008-01-24 01:23

Congratulations!

Regards,

Rob…

#3 Rob... (Homepage) on 2008-01-24 06:37

Well done you :)

#4 Saj on 2008-01-24 07:23

Welcome to Ibuildings! :-)

#5 Ivo (Homepage) on 2008-01-24 07:42

Good stuff. I know a guy in the Netherlands who’s working for them and having a great time. I think he’s also trying to promote symfony along side the other frameworks they use!

#6 Mike Nolan (Homepage) on 2008-01-24 08:53

Wow, I’ve only been gone long enough to sleep and look how many people have dropped by! Rich, Chris, Rob, Saj, Ivo and Mike – many thanks for your kind words :)

#7 LornaJane (Homepage) on 2008-01-24 09:49

Hey Lorna,

Welcome to the club! Nice to have you aboard. Though I’m in NL (I’m the guy Mike is commenting about ;) ) who knows, somewhere along the line we might be working together on stuff :)

#8 Stefan Koopmanschap on 2008-01-24 10:25

Welcome aboard! :-)

#9 Mikko (Homepage) on 2008-01-24 11:39

More new colleagues :) Hi Mikko, hi Stefan, thanks for taking the time to leave a comment – I look forward to working with you.

#10 LornaJane (Homepage) on 2008-01-24 22:20

Congrats hun! Judging by the warm welcome, you’re going to have a blast!

#11 dotjay (Homepage) on 2008-01-24 22:27

See told you you were fabulous and everyone wanted you! hope its everything you want and glad that you put off starting so that i get u all to myself for a whole week! (I realise this isnt the only reason but i like to think it is…)
Well done you! Hugs!
xXx

#12 Caity on 2008-01-24 23:45

Well done mate, that didnt’ take long!

All the best in the new role, have fun1

Cheers

Vince

#13 vince on 2008-01-25 10:49

dotjay: hopefully you are right :)

Caity: well how often do I get time with my sister?

Vince: oh hello! Thanks for the best wishes, hope everything is going well for you :)

#14 LornaJane (Homepage) on 2008-01-25 11:48

Hi Lorna,
Thanks for choosing to work for Ibuildings. Very glad to have you join the excellent team of PHP professionals here at Ibuildings!

Tom

#15 Tom M. Schenkenberg (Homepage) on 2008-01-26 23:14

Well done Lorna! I think you needed that boost of confidence, hope all goes well with the new job. Also congrats on passing your exam, I knew you would :)

Heading home from Bangkok tomorrow morning.

#16 Simon on 2008-01-28 12:51

Tom: Thanks for adding a comment, I look forward to working with you.

Simon: Thanks and thanks – talk to you when you get back (and figure out what time it is)

#17 LornaJane (Homepage) on 2008-01-28 20:41

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Sree about GeekSpeakr
Fri, 04.07.2008 07:06
This is a good place to know about more & more women speaker s: hers i am: http://geekspeakr.com/speaker/sree


LornaJane about A Turtle and a Giant Baby Blanket
Wed, 02.07.2008 22:10
LinuxJedi: I have a niece to knit for, no need to go to the great lengths of breeding grandchildren :)


LinuxJedi about A Turtle and a Giant Baby Blanket
Wed, 02.07.2008 19:58
Awww….That is really cute. Your stuff just gets better an d better :) Although I have visions of you in a rocking c hair in 60 years time knitting away embarrassing clothes for all you grandkids :)


Ken Guest about Vim Macro: cleaning up line endings
Wed, 02.07.2008 14:28
Lorna, If you’re getting into hooks and coding standards yo u might want to have a look at triggering Greg Sherwood’s ph p codesniffer when somebody attempts to check in changes. http://url.ie/hq6 is a redirect to his blog posting about d oing this.


LornaJane about Vim Macro: cleaning up line endings
Wed, 02.07.2008 13:16
Geoff: For line-endings the SVN property is really useful, but for more complex requirements, like the ones Ken mention ed, a hook is more functional I think. I must admit to usua lly specifying whitespace and line endings in coding standar ds and then shouting at people that do it wrong … it [...]


Geoff about Vim Macro: cleaning up line endings
Wed, 02.07.2008 12:57
Have you tried using the svn:eol-style property? This seems more appropriate than using pre-commit hooks.


LornaJane about Vim Macro: cleaning up line endings
Wed, 02.07.2008 12:11
Ken: Hello, thanks for dropping by and upstaging me with suc h an excellent tip :) I’ve also seen some nice pre-commit h ooks for SVN that cleans up this kind of badness before the files go near the repo.


Ken Guest about Vim Macro: cleaning up line endings
Wed, 02.07.2008 01:23
Hi Lorna. Cool tip but I think I can go one better! I ha ve the following line in my ~/.vim/ftplugin/php.vim file autocmd BufWritePre *.php :%s/\s\+$//e This removes all t railing spaces in a .php file prior to writing it to disk an d means I can concentrate on work rather that using ma [...]


LornaJane about PHP5 Soap Server
Tue, 01.07.2008 22:09
Nik: I can’t imagine what a wsdl would look like pasted into here so I’ve put it in a separate file for you, I’ve includ ed another example soap function so you can see the wsdl wit h two functions and I hope this will give you the help you n eed. The wsdl is at http://web.lornajane.net/sugar_so [...]