Lextech is looking for energetic, technology savvy individuals to assist with our software/systems development projects. The engineer will help design and develop software systems in Java and PHP on a wide variety of platforms. This unique role is for the technical decathlete who is well versed at many different technologies and can readily apply them from a hands-on perspective.

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iRa Pro, a video surveillance app developed by Lextech engineers, will be highlighted on CNBC's Planet of the Apps: A Handheld Revolution tonight at 10 PM Pacific time, 1 AM Eastern.

Note the iRa Pro eyeball icon in the top right portion of the globe.

iPhone app promo codes are used to provide free copies of an app to reviewers or other key users. The folks over at TapTapTap posted a great tidbit for sharing iPhone app promo codes in a much easier to redeem fashion. Rather than a user having to navigate inside iTunes or try to find the nicely hidden 'redeem' link on the iPhone, the end user can click a URL which will launch iTunes on a desktop computer or an iPhone directly from an email and start the redeem process.

I live on my laptop and the data on it and my desktop is of critical importance (from family pictures to marketing videos to iPhone apps under construction). I've seen too many people in the last couple years lose something critical because it only existed in one place. Of course our key business data lives on file servers, source code revision control systems and databases that have their own backup strategies but for anything that lives on a laptop, additional measures are required.

CEO Alex Bratton talks about Lextech's passion for "developing next-gen mobile video surveillance technology and designing high-end data sharing apps for mobile users."

Most web sites have sessions for their users. You know, those things that keep track of your information temporarily and log you out if you have been inactive for too long.  Well, PHP has session management through a process called garbage collection.  The problem is, especially if you are using CakePHP, you may not be getting your session management quite the way you think.

Over the holiday break I had the chance to really put 3G networks and mobile connectivity to the test while en-route driving between Illinois and Florida.  I was working with my MacBook Pro connected via WiFi to a CradlePoint WiPipe access point that had my Sprint broadband USB adapter in place.  The WiPipe did a great job keeping a good connection up and running (it seemed to be much better about forcing a reconnect when things got really slow than the Sprint drivers on the MacBook Pro with the USB dongle plugged in directly).

Drupal, the popular open source content management system/framework, is very useful in getting a site off the ground quickly.  It automates many tedious tasks and streamlines website building for developers and content managers.  Along with the proper modules, it also allows for fast content adding/editing.

We are receiving extremely positive feedback about iRa from the development community. The 350+ developers that saw the demo at the iPhoneDevCamp 2 in San Francisco last weekend were so impressed by the application that iRa won the “Coolest iPhone App” award at the end of the 2 day event.

Watch the demo below and then check out the Lextech Labs News page to see what people are saying about iRa!