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We are seeking a CSS / HTML / PHP / MySQL developer. Reporting directly to Duncan Morris (a director of Distilled), you will earn wide-ranging responsibilities for delivering client projects and internal tools.

We build small business websites on our own (PHP / MySQL) content management system as well as developing tools to help us do our jobs better. You will be responsible for creating websites based on designs created by our in-house graphic designer.

Distilled is a small team of (currently) 6 people and we are looking for someone who is keen to join a fast-growing company. The right person will:

• have good written and spoken English
• be passionate about the internet
• be self disciplined
• be able to fit in with a team
• be an independent learner
• be able to demonstrate a real interest in and aptitude for the role

Any of the following would be advantageous but are not necessary:

• Experience of the CakePHP framework
• Systems administration experience - on a LAMP platform
• Knowledge of search engine optimisation techniques

The job is a full time position and will be based at our offices near London Bridge. Your role will include:

• Constructing websites based on design layouts
• Extending internal platforms (CMS, e-commerce etc.)
• Maintaining and developing internal tools
• Building more complex functionality for client websites

We will provide a dual-monitor computer and a comfortable chair. You can listen to music while you work if you wish.

Salary: £17,000-21,000 p.a. depending on experience

If this sounds like the role for you, then please fill out the following form:

http://www.distilled.co.uk/applyweb.html

If you sound like the sort of person we want to work with we will contact you and arrange an interview.

Ever wondered what happens when your computer sends a domain request to the internet? Well some guy whips out rubber gloves and stuffs messages into tennis balls then rolls them down a pipe labeled 'the internet'. Of course.

http://digg.com/hardware/How_Does_The_Internet_Work_Tennis_Balls_Tubes_Duh

(and don't forget to digg it!)

五輪真弓 alone, singing 恋人よ

五輪真弓 with 河合奈保子

And I'm not even ashamed to love this song...

Vivement le 19 novembre :/

To the applause of Apple employees and those still waiting in line outside the store, Anthony Lionetti of Tiburon, CA, emerges from the Apple Store in Corte Madera, CA after being the first at the store to purchase Apple's iPhone on Friday, June 29, 2007. (IJ photo/Alan Dep)

GG Apple.