I have a new job and now I am working at   chip.de  where I am responsible for the development of a subproject for the website.
We are a team of 5 developers and have a backoffice/sales team that outnumbers us by the factor 2. So far so good. From the technical point of view it's a interesting thing here:

• the it website with the most pi's in germany
  
• a large webfarm where our application runs in
  
• a IT department that is 50% of teh company ;)
  
• a lot of php coding people

One of my first jobs is a prototype project that should help us deciding how and if we should develop a special sub site for the whole company. So far, this time it is up to me to decide the toolbox we are using. So far, there is a lot to choose, its a high load website application that must be able to deliver a lot of pi's a day.

• PHP5
  
• Mysql 4.x with PDO
• Smarty: because were already using it
• Zend Framework, because i do not like having glued together components like PEAR
  
• Simpletest, because i still likeit more than PHP-Unit (All Objects were doing for our selfes need to be unit-tested)
  
• Moo.fx (Javascritp Framework) for Ajax/Client Interactivity

Since it will be a effort to establish PHP5, UnitTesting, modern AJAX Principles, its surely interesting for all the readers  of that blog. Illkeep you people Updated.

SCHWING .........