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Auto Trader https://www.autotrader.co.uk | Front-end Developers | Onsite (Hybrid) | Manchester, UK | Full-time & Part-time

At Auto Trader we aim to improve the process of buying and selling vehicles in the UK, by continually evolving the ecosystem to provide a better experience for consumers, retailers and manufacturers alike.

We're on the look out for full or part time Professional (£35k - £60k), Senior (£50k - £70k) and Principal (£60k - £80k) Front-end Developers to come and help make a fantastic online car buying experience, and help support and develop their fellow devs!

More details: https://careers.autotrader.co.uk

School of Life, Vox make some great explainer videos, PBS Space Time and NPR TinyDesk Concerts.

Maybe if it offered free accounts for your family members.

These two articles from the NHS might help:

1) Guidelines for physical exercise for the older generation. 150 minutes of moderate exercise plus strength training on 2 days. http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/fitness/Pages/physical-activity-g...

2) Strength and motion exercises for older people. http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/fitness/Pages/strength-exercises-...

I've been using Facebook to subscribe to websites mainly because I know I'll check Facebook more often. I keep forgetting to check my Feedly account.

However I've discovered that after liking a few pages and joining a few groups the quality of information in my Facebook news feed is getting watered down. I'm missing more of my friends updates.

Currently my Facebook feed has a duel personality which makes it a bit useless.

After reading about the gender gap between Wikipedia editors (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_bias_on_Wikipedia) I've been trying to encourage more of my female friends to become Wikipedia editors and this article will certainly help inspire. Great stuff!

I can't really help with the rest but if you wanted to track units of work without putting it against a task you could try FocusBooster (https://www.focusboosterapp.com/) which allows you log blocks of 25mins using the Pomodoro technique.

Maybe one of the GTD apps like Todoist (https://todoist.com/) would suit you better? They can show you what's coming up in the next few days.

It doesn't really take that long on a day to day basis. It's the review period which can take a while.

Could you use Notational Velocity (http://notational.net) and sync with http://simplenote.com instead?

I'm not sure how I missed that. I've never heard of if hiTask! A friend pointed out Bullet Journal (http://bulletjournal.com/) too. I like the idea of having it all in your notebook but it does mean you have to carry it around everywhere.

I think I was lucky in that being from the UK I was able to get it on the National Health Service but before I was referred by the doctor I didn't realise this type of thing existed or was available.

Thanks for spotting that! I'll sort it out.

Manchester, UK. Skylab: http://www.studioskylab.com/ - A senior developer, developers, senior / UX designer, senior / designer, digital traffic manager & an account manager.

We develop innovative and exciting web projects for both clients and ourselves.

We're looking for people who take pride in their work and get excited by the industry they work in, people who work well with others, people with a good eye for detail.

For more details about the jobs & benefits please visit: http://www.studioskylab.com/careers

Manchester, UK. Skylab: http://www.studioskylab.com/ - Senior Developer & developers.

We develop innovative and exciting web projects for both clients and ourselves.

We're looking for people who take pride in their work and get excited by the industry they work in, people who work well with others, people with a good eye for detail.

We work with technologies such as:

  - HTML 5
  - CSS 3 and SASS
  - Responsive design
  - Amazon Web Services
  - Git
  - Symfony 2
  - Puppet
  - Auto-scaling server infrastructures

  Training — Dedicated time set aside to training; whether that’s self-teaching, online courses or attending conferences. 
  Collaboration — Fortnightly get-togethers to discuss new technologies and how we can push things forward; everyone’s opinion is important.
  Money — We offer competitive salaries.
  Apples — Everyone gets an iMac or MacBook Pro.
  Apples — We provide free fruit for the team.

--- Senior developer ---

What you'll be doing:

The role will be a blend of architecting solutions for both client and internal projects, hands-on development and maintenance of the projects, mentoring the team, code reviews, helping set standards and getting involved in writing technical documents and proposals.

What we're looking for:

Experience -

  - Development of commercial projects
  - Mentoring and training of other team members
  - Use of development patterns and processes such as MVC, dependency injection and TDD - Writing client-friendly technical documents

In addition to the skills listed in the introduction:

PHP (ideally with Symfony 2 or similar framework experience), Javascript, LAMP server administration, Continuous integration (Jenkins or similar), Automated deployments (Puppet or similar), Architecting scalable web infrastructures, WordPress and ExpressionEngine.

Not all of these are essential, as long as you have a lust for knowledge.

--- Developer ---

What you'll be doing:

The role will be a blend of architecting solutions for both client and internal projects, hands-on development and maintenance of the projects.

What we're looking for:

Experience: Development of commercial projects

Technical skills:

In addition to the skills listed in the introduction - PHP (ideally with Symfony 2 or similar framework experience), Javascript, WordPress and ExpressionEngine. Not all of these are essential, as long as you have a lust for knowledge.

We would love to hear from you so please contact us at careers[at]studioskylab.com

Manchester, UK. Skylab: http://www.studioskylab.com/ - Senior Developer & developers.

We develop innovative and exciting web projects for both clients and ourselves.

We're looking for people who take pride in their work and get excited by the industry they work in, people who work well with others, people with a good eye for detail.

We work with technologies such as:

- HTML 5

- CSS 3 and SASS

- Responsive design

- Amazon Web Services

- Git

- Symfony 2

- Puppet

- Auto-scaling server infrastructures

Why you might want to work here:

Training — Dedicated time set aside to training; whether that’s self-teaching, online courses or attending conferences.

Collaboration — Fortnightly get-togethers to discuss new technologies and how we can push things forward; everyone’s opinion is important.

Money — We offer competitive salaries.

Apples — Everyone gets an iMac or MacBook Pro.

Apples — We provide free fruit for the team.

Roles available:

--- Senior developer ---

What you'll be doing:

The role will be a blend of architecting solutions for both client and internal projects, hands-on development and maintenance of the projects, mentoring the team, code reviews, helping set standards and getting involved in writing technical documents and proposals.

What we're looking for:

Experience

- Development of commercial projects

- Mentoring and training of other team members

- Use of development patterns and processes such as MVC, dependency injection and TDD - Writing client-friendly technical documents

Technical skills

In addition to the skills listed in the introduction:

PHP (ideally with Symfony 2 or similar framework experience), Javascript, LAMP server administration, Continuous integration (Jenkins or similar), Automated deployments (Puppet or similar), Architecting scalable web infrastructures, WordPress and ExpressionEngine.

Not all of these are essential, as long as you have a lust for knowledge.

--- Developer ---

What you'll be doing:

The role will be a blend of architecting solutions for both client and internal projects, hands-on development and maintenance of the projects.

What we're looking for:

Experience: Development of commercial projects

Technical skills:

In addition to the skills listed in the introduction - PHP (ideally with Symfony 2 or similar framework experience), Javascript, WordPress and ExpressionEngine.

Not all of these are essential, as long as you have a lust for knowledge.

We would love to hear from you so please contact us at careers[at]studioskylab.com

Manchester, UK. Skylab: http://www.studioskylab.com/ - Senior Developer & developers.

We develop innovative and exciting web projects for both clients and ourselves.

We're looking for people who take pride in their work and get excited by the industry they work in, people who work well with others, people with a good eye for detail.

We work with technologies such as:

- HTML 5

- CSS 3 and SASS

- Responsive design

- Amazon Web Services

- Git

- Symfony 2

- Puppet

- Auto-scaling server infrastructures

Why you might want to work here:

Training — Dedicated time set aside to training; whether that’s self-teaching, online courses or attending conferences.

Collaboration — Fortnightly get-togethers to discuss new technologies and how we can push things forward; everyone’s opinion is important.

Money — We offer competitive salaries.

Apples — Everyone gets an iMac or MacBook Pro.

Apples — We provide free fruit for the team.

Roles available:

--- Senior developer ---

What you'll be doing:

The role will be a blend of architecting solutions for both client and internal projects, hands-on development and maintenance of the projects, mentoring the team, code reviews, helping set standards and getting involved in writing technical documents and proposals.

What we're looking for:

Experience

- Development of commercial projects - Mentoring and training of other team members - Use of development patterns and processes such as MVC, dependency injection and TDD - Writing client-friendly technical documents

Technical skills

In addition to the skills listed in the introduction:

PHP (ideally with Symfony 2 or similar framework experience), Javascript, LAMP server administration, Continuous integration (Jenkins or similar), Automated deployments (Puppet or similar), Architecting scalable web infrastructures, WordPress and ExpressionEngine.

Not all of these are essential, as long as you have a lust for knowledge.

--- Developer ---

What you'll be doing:

The role will be a blend of architecting solutions for both client and internal projects, hands-on development and maintenance of the projects.

What we're looking for:

Experience - Development of commercial projects

Technical skills:

In addition to the skills listed in the introduction -

PHP (ideally with Symfony 2 or similar framework experience), Javascript, WordPress and ExpressionEngine.

Not all of these are essential, as long as you have a lust for knowledge.

We would love to hear from you so please contact us at careers[at]studioskylab.com

Manchester, UK. Senior Developer & developers.

Skylab has an awesomely talented team, a great culture and has digital innovation at its core.

We are looking for an experienced senior developer with sys admin experience to join the team and play a leading role in developing both the coding team and our websites, apps and cloud based infrastructure projects for clients. This role will be a mix of:

- Architecting solutions

- Hands-on development

- Mentoring the team and setting standards and processes

The senior developer will need to understand the concepts of service-oriented architecture, dependency injection and will have ideally used this in a commercial application. Additionally, practical experience of test driven development will be beneficial.

Experience of using an MVC framework is critical, as we use the Symfony PHP framework, both 1.x and 2.x.

Experience of Wordpress and ExpressionEngine will also be useful (but not critical), as we use these CMSs to drive some of our clients websites.

Developers will be expected to show experience in and around the following topics:

- Development cycle, processes and tools

- Quality assurance

- Security

- Performance

- Standardisation

- Software architecture

More details: http://www.studioskylab.com/journal/item/senior_developer_an...