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Archive for December, 2010

Delta Sponsors Women’s Network Holiday Party

December 18, 2010

Delta Systems was pleased to be a Sponsor of the 2010 Columbia, MO Chamber of Commerce Women’s Network holiday party held this week.

Columbia Chamber Of Commerce

Columbia Chamber Of Commerce

Mondavi Institute back on solid ground, vinecon.ucdavis.edu is live again

December 17, 2010

The RMI Center for Wine Economics was having an issue with their website and content management system. There was a security hole that allowed attackers to exploit their system by defacement and malicious upload. Terabytes worth of file transfers were happening within hours. Delta Systems was able to secure the system and move hosting under Delta’s control. There is still work to be done in implementing a more advanced content management system to better suit their needs, but the Mondavi Institute is pleased to be back online. Delta Systems is also pleased to be trusted to host a University of California – Davis website.

About the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine Economics

The RMI Center for Wine Economics undertakes and facilitates research and education about the economics of the production and consumption of wine grapes and wine in California and around the world.

The Center for Wine Economics focuses on economic developments in the domestic and international markets for wine and their implications for competitiveness of the wine industry in California and the United States.

The Center emphasizes applied research but is engaged in teaching and outreach activities related to its theme of wine economics.

Learn more at http://vinecon.ucdavis.edu

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Building online applications and data management systems that are intuitive yet powerful is our specialty.

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We also have experts in Microsoft Access Development, EXE development, product commercialization, training on all major software, and more.

Give us a call and find out why over 800 companies have trusted Delta Systems with their networking, web, and programming needs since 1986. Ask around.

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Job Opening: Web Application Developers – PHP / Zend Framework

December 8, 2010

Job Opening: Web Application Developer – PHP / Zend Framework

"Just Call Delta" Today!

Delta Systems Group is hiring web application developers

http://www.JustCallDelta.com

Do you have a passion for helping companies? Are you skilled in WordPress, PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, XML, Zend Framework? Delta Systems, an online application development company headquartered in Columbia, Missouri, offers an exciting and high-energy work environment. As a rapid application development company, we minimize over-engineering and empower you to make decisions and manage tasks.

Work Environment:

Since 1986, Delta has been building tracking systems for everything from napkins to insurance policies, from golf courses to hot dog ingredients, from horse ailments to yoga certifications, and from blood donors to paddlefish. Building online applications and data management systems that are intuitive yet powerful is our specialty.

Read about Delta in the Columbia Daily Tribune

Delta Systems has been named “one of Mid-Missouri’s foremost web design and support firms” by the Columbia Daily Tribune and “a premier providers of computing solutions” by the Columbia Business Times. Our employees enjoy many freedoms and benefits. We do group coding weekly for reviews and single-project focusing to knock out features, do some spec work, or just to put an app together to find and fix issues quickly. Free lunch-and-learn sessions provide opportunities for ongoing training.

Delta Systems employees exemplify professionalism in every aspect of client relations and work.

Typical daily activities:

* Work along other senior developers to provide PHP programming and functionality for a wide variety of consumer related websites, intranets, extranets, and web-based applications
* Be challenged on a daily basis to solve problems in new and creative ways
* Design, evaluate, update, and maintain object oriented applications in PHP
* Design, evaluate, update, and maintain complicated database schemas in PostgreSQL and SQL Server
* Share your opinions and insights with business leaders on a daily basis in order to affect rapid decision cycles and effective solutions to business requirements

Benefits:

- Paid by the hour
- Flex time – If you like working from 7am to 3pm or 3pm to 11pm great!
- Health Insurance, >90% paid by employer
- SIMPLE retirement plan with corporate matching
- Dental
- Paid vacation
- Paid sick leave
- Paid holidays
- AFLAC

Perks:

- Free soda, tea, coffee and occasional lunches.
- Development environments: Ubuntu, Windows, or Mac, whichever
- We’ll pay for applicable certification exams
- Subscription to O’Reilly Media
- Enjoy “Virtual Tuesdays”; you can work from anywhere you want.
- Dress is casual – jeans and t-shirts are just fine. When meeting with clients, we expect business appropriate attire and demeanor.

What we look for in you:

* 2 years of solid PHP and MySQL/PostgreSQL
* Experience with a MVC framework (Zend Framework, Cake, Symphony, Codeigniter)
* Strong working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript libraries (YUI, jQuery)
* Capabilities in working with WordPress, Drupal, Expression Engine, Joomla, etc
* The ability to translate business requirements into system design.
* Develop solutions based on organizational and users’ needs, strategies, and goals, including recommending improvements based on researching and evaluating web software.
* Successful track record of working in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment
* Exceptional debugging skills
* Experience with Version Control Systems (subversion, github, etc)
* Zend PHP5 and/or Zend Framework Certification: If you’re not already certified, be expected to work towards obtaining certification. We’ll even pay for the first test.

BONUS Talents Sought:

* Know your way around Basecamp
* Experience deploying to a load-balanced environment
* Experience with the Zend Framework
* Ability to administer Linux servers running CentOS 5
* Familiarity with Xdebug
* Linux Server administration experience (Preferably Plesk)
* Know your way around Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud, etc.
* Know your way around Google Analytics, Omniture, etc.
* eCommerce platform experience (Magento, etc)
* Zend PHP5 Certified
* Zend Framework Certified

DO NOT APPLY if you:

* are “learning” PHP and want some experience
* are representing a company and want us to outsource to you

Email resumes to info@deltasys.com

Please no phone calls.

This job will also be posted on Craigslist, dice.com, Indeed.com, etc when we get around to it.

* Zend Framework Certified

Delta Systems is a full-service computer consulting company with a suite of in-house development, design, and computer network support talent.
Building online applications and data management systems that are intuitive yet powerful is our specialty.

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