{"id":1069,"date":"2008-09-24T12:31:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T17:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2008-09-24T12:31:13","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T17:31:13","slug":"obama-wants-lamp-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/24\/obama-wants-lamp-developers","title":{"rendered":"Obama wants LAMP developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its great to see that the Obama campaign in America are after folk that <a href=\"http:\/\/my.barackobama.com\/page\/s\/techinterest\">dig open source<\/a>. They&#8217;re after folk that can write software for nation-wide voter contact and mobilisation (something like Twitter?), fund-raising, and social networking and online organising at My.BarackObama.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re a LAMP shop. They&#8217;re after:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Experience scaling large LAMP applications<\/li>\n<li>Posses deep knowledge of MySQL performance and query optimisation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I once wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIf they can waste your <i>ringgit<\/i> on buying proprietary software licenses, when there are clearly open source alternatives, can you trust them with spending and budgeting for a country?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It may seem extremely naive to correlate the use of open source software to creating a better budget or spending wisely, but I think its a start.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Obama%20wants%20LAMP%20developers&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F09%2F24%2Fobama-wants-lamp-developers&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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They&#8217;re after folk that can write software for nation-wide voter contact and mobilisation (something like Twitter?), fund-raising, and social networking and online organising at My.BarackObama. They&#8217;re a LAMP shop. They&#8217;re after: Experience scaling large LAMP applications Posses deep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Obama%20wants%20LAMP%20developers&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F09%2F24%2Fobama-wants-lamp-developers&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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