From evan.heller at alum.rpi.edu Sun Dec 1 21:28:01 2002
From: evan.heller at alum.rpi.edu (evan heller)
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 21:28:01 -0500
Subject: PHP 4.3RC2 Module and Apache 2.0 revisited
References: <200211261928.gAQJSFkh089965@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <3DEAC531.3A2372C1@alum.rpi.edu>
Hi:
Does anyone know why apache would corrupt files
over a few K. I am running Apache 2.0 with php as
a module and with virtual hosts. The upload
directory is set correctly and I'm running with
the open_basedir and safemode on.
Any thoughts or ideas why images would be
corrupted. For example, I have the system output
bad data and it says that a file sized: 63,887
bytes gets uploaded as 113,231 bytes?? Anyhow, I'm
confused why this would happen. Any help would be
of great assistance.
-Evan
--
Evan Heller
evan.heller at alum.rpi.edu
From danielc at analysisandsolutions.com Sun Dec 1 21:37:56 2002
From: danielc at analysisandsolutions.com (Analysis & Solutions)
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 21:37:56 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] PHP 4.3RC2 Module and Apache 2.0 revisited
In-Reply-To: <200212020230.gB22UQkh030877@parsec.nyphp.org>
References: <200212020230.gB22UQkh030877@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <20021202023755.GA14286@panix.com>
Hey Evan:
> Does anyone know why apache would corrupt files
> over a few K. I am running Apache 2.0 with php as
> a module and with virtual hosts.
Beats me, but the PHP crew has been telling folks not to use PHP with
Apache 2 at this point (well, at least when I last heard a few months
ago) since it's still in major development mode.
Use the latest Apache 1.3.x and you'll be happy.
--Dan
--
The new Department of Homeland Security is exempt from:
* the Freedom of Information Act * procurement rules
* labor collective bargaining * whistle blower protection
The real goal? Eliminating government accountability.
From evan.heller at alum.rpi.edu Sun Dec 1 21:49:19 2002
From: evan.heller at alum.rpi.edu (evan heller)
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 21:49:19 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] PHP 4.3RC2 Module and Apache 2.0 revisited
References: <200212020238.gB22c1kh030919@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <3DEACA2F.3E40E8A0@alum.rpi.edu>
Sadly on windows 2000 I don't dare use apache 1.3
branch. It really does suck on windows but that's
what I'm bound to for now. I think I have figured
out the problem and tracked it down to an obscure
bug. I've spent probably 20-30 hours trying to
find this bug but it seems like if you use:
SetOutputFilter PHP
SetInputFilter PHP
it will cause any file uploaded over 8500 bytes to
corrupt. Weird huh? Well, I'm off to do more
testing to see if this fix by removing those lines
works.
-Evan
Analysis & Solutions wrote:
>
> Hey Evan:
>
> > Does anyone know why apache would corrupt files
> > over a few K. I am running Apache 2.0 with php as
> > a module and with virtual hosts.
>
> Beats me, but the PHP crew has been telling folks not to use PHP with
> Apache 2 at this point (well, at least when I last heard a few months
> ago) since it's still in major development mode.
>
> Use the latest Apache 1.3.x and you'll be happy.
>
> --Dan
>
> --
> The new Department of Homeland Security is exempt from:
> * the Freedom of Information Act * procurement rules
> * labor collective bargaining * whistle blower protection
> The real goal? Eliminating government accountability.
>
> --- Unsubscribe at http://nyphp.org/list/ ---
--
Evan Heller
evan.heller at alum.rpi.edu
From sterling at bumblebury.com Sun Dec 1 22:16:51 2002
From: sterling at bumblebury.com (Sterling Hughes)
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 22:16:51 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] PHP 4.3RC2 Module and Apache 2.0 revisited
In-Reply-To: <200212020238.gB22c1kh030919@parsec.nyphp.org>
References: <200212020238.gB22c1kh030919@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <20021202031651.GA28616@bumblebury.com>
> Hey Evan:
>
> > Does anyone know why apache would corrupt files
> > over a few K. I am running Apache 2.0 with php as
> > a module and with virtual hosts.
>
> Beats me, but the PHP crew has been telling folks not to use PHP with
> Apache 2 at this point (well, at least when I last heard a few months
> ago) since it's still in major development mode.
>
> Use the latest Apache 1.3.x and you'll be happy.
>
Rasmus has been telling people not to use Apache 2, period, everybody else
pretty much stays out of that holy war ;-)
PHP and Apache2 is pretty much stable from a PHP perspective - the major
architectural difference is that Apache 2 supports a threaded model instead
of a multi-process model, which means that everything that links into
Apache2 must be threadsafe. This therefore means that everything that links
into php must also be threadsafe, if you are using libraries that aren't
threadsafe, then you're messed up.
So, when using Apache 2, you can't use the threadsafe model, but using the
multi-process model should be fine. [1]
In this case :) I don't think this is a php issue, or an apache 2 issue
(its running quite stably on large sites like download.com that serve many
files above a few K :), I'd take a look at what exactly is happening with
these files - are you locking reads & writes? What are the permissions?
Are the files themselves messed up - or is it just the display? Are you
properly setting mime types, etc. etc. etc.
-Sterling
[1] It also has a few other problems, such as messed up content transfer
encoding, and a rapidly changing filter model, but those would not be
related....
> --Dan
>
> --
> The new Department of Homeland Security is exempt from:
> * the Freedom of Information Act * procurement rules
> * labor collective bargaining * whistle blower protection
> The real goal? Eliminating government accountability.
>
>
> --- Unsubscribe at http://nyphp.org/list/ ---
>
>
From sterling at bumblebury.com Sun Dec 1 22:18:40 2002
From: sterling at bumblebury.com (Sterling Hughes)
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 22:18:40 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] PHP 4.3RC2 Module and Apache 2.0 revisited
In-Reply-To: <200212020251.gB22pekh030998@parsec.nyphp.org>
References: <200212020251.gB22pekh030998@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <20021202031840.GB28616@bumblebury.com>
> Sadly on windows 2000 I don't dare use apache 1.3
> branch. It really does suck on windows but that's
> what I'm bound to for now. I think I have figured
> out the problem and tracked it down to an obscure
> bug. I've spent probably 20-30 hours trying to
> find this bug but it seems like if you use:
>
>
> SetOutputFilter PHP
> SetInputFilter PHP
>
>
> it will cause any file uploaded over 8500 bytes to
> corrupt. Weird huh? Well, I'm off to do more
> testing to see if this fix by removing those lines
> works.
>
A note on this, this is not how you should be handling PHP with
Apache 2.0, you should be using MIME types...
-Sterling
From hans at nyphp.org Sun Dec 1 23:14:09 2002
From: hans at nyphp.org (Hans Zaunere)
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 20:14:09 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [nycphp-talk] PHP 4.3RC2 Module and Apache 2.0 revisited
In-Reply-To: <200212020230.gB22UQkh030877@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <20021202041409.97346.qmail@web12803.mail.yahoo.com>
--- evan heller wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Does anyone know why apache would corrupt files
> over a few K. I am running Apache 2.0 with php as
> a module and with virtual hosts. The upload
> directory is set correctly and I'm running with
> the open_basedir and safemode on.
As noted in other posts, be sure to run Apache 2 in it's classic prefork
process model (http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/#core). I've had issues
with threads on FreeBSD, but seems to work well on RH 7.3; no idea what the
process model under Windows (mpm_winnt) means, however. Either way, AFAIK
PHP isn't thread-safe yet, so go with the prefork process module.
> Any thoughts or ideas why images would be
> corrupted. For example, I have the system output
> bad data and it says that a file sized: 63,887
> bytes gets uploaded as 113,231 bytes?? Anyhow, I'm
> confused why this would happen. Any help would be
> of great assistance.
Although the size increase seems a bit large, this sounds like it could be a
binary safety issue. UNIX doesn't make a distinction for most file
operations but Windows will. Make sure you open the file properly, something
like: fopen('pathtofile', 'rb') (the b is vital, as noted in the second Note
at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php
And make sure that the other functions you are using within PHP to operate on
the file's data are specified as binary safe (not fgets(), but rather
fread(), for example) and the Note at
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fread.php
Best,
=====
Hans Zaunere
New York PHP
http://nyphp.org
hans at nyphp.org
From jonbaer at jonbaer.net Mon Dec 2 17:56:52 2002
From: jonbaer at jonbaer.net (Jon Baer)
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 17:56:52 -0500
Subject: Anyone buying this? Linux vs. Win2k
Message-ID: <3DEBE534.3000301@jonbaer.net>
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=581&e=1&cid=581&u=/nm/20021202/tc_nm/tech_microsoft_linux_dc
Study: Windows Servers Cheaper Than Linux
Mon Dec 2, 5:41 PM ET
Add Technology - Reuters
to My Yahoo!
By Reed Stevenson
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT
- news
),
fearful of being undercut in the market for server software by free
offerings based on Linux (news
- web sites
),
on Monday released the results of a sponsored study that concludes
Windows 2000 (news
- web sites
)
is generally cheaper for businesses to run and support.
From rainman at deroo.net Mon Dec 2 22:39:26 2002
From: rainman at deroo.net (The Rain Maker)
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 22:39:26 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] Anyone buying this? Linux vs. Win2k
In-Reply-To: <200212030314.gB33Eckh038594@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID:
>
> On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 10:14 PM, Jon Baer wrote:
>
>
Was this more to this message I didn't get?
.r
From danielc at analysisandsolutions.com Mon Dec 2 22:41:38 2002
From: danielc at analysisandsolutions.com (Analysis & Solutions)
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 22:41:38 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] Anyone buying this? Linux vs. Win2k
In-Reply-To: <200212030314.gB33Eckh038594@parsec.nyphp.org>
References: <200212030314.gB33Eckh038594@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <20021203034138.GA2918@panix.com>
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:14:38PM -0500, Jon Baer wrote:
Uh, I ain't buyin' nutin'! 'Course, you gamme' nutin' to buy.
--Dan
--
The new Department of Homeland Security is exempt from:
* the Freedom of Information Act * procurement rules
* labor collective bargaining * whistle blower protection
The real goal? Eliminating government accountability.
From jonbaer at jonbaer.net Mon Dec 2 18:41:09 2002
From: jonbaer at jonbaer.net (Jon Baer)
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 18:41:09 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] Anyone buying this? Linux vs. Win2k
References: <200212030341.gB33fikh038798@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <3DEBEF95.7050603@jonbaer.net>
My bad :-)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=581&e=1&cid=581&u=/nm/20021202/tc_nm/tech_microsoft_linux_dc
Basically stating that Win2K is cheaper than Linux. :-\\
- Jon
Analysis & Solutions wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:14:38PM -0500, Jon Baer wrote:
>
>Uh, I ain't buyin' nutin'! 'Course, you gamme' nutin' to buy.
>
>--Dan
>
>
>
From joe_m at circlepressroom.com Mon Dec 2 23:07:59 2002
From: joe_m at circlepressroom.com (Joe M)
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 23:07:59 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] Anyone buying this? Linux vs. Win2k
In-Reply-To: <200212030358.gB33wmkh038893@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID:
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 22:58:48 -0500
Jon Baer wrote:
>My bad :-)
>
>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=581&e=1&cid=581&u=/nm/20021202/tc_nm/tech_microsoft_linux_dc
>
>Basically stating that Win2K is cheaper than Linux. :-\\
>
>- Jon
>
>Analysis & Solutions wrote:
>
>>On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:14:38PM -0500, Jon Baer wrote:
>>
>>Uh, I ain't buyin' nutin'! 'Course, you gamme' nutin' to
>>buy.
>>
>>--Dan
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
>--- Unsubscribe at http://nyphp.org/list/ ---
>
>
From joe_m at circlepressroom.com Mon Dec 2 23:10:37 2002
From: joe_m at circlepressroom.com (Joe M)
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 23:10:37 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] Anyone buying this? Linux vs. Win2k
In-Reply-To: <200212030358.gB33wmkh038893@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID:
sorry, MY bad..meant to say "ha ha!"
well at least they admit as a web server linux is cheaper.
what do they think most folks are using it for?
joe (not a ms basher)m
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 22:58:48 -0500
Jon Baer wrote:
>My bad :-)
>
>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=581&e=1&cid=581&u=/nm/20021202/tc_nm/tech_microsoft_linux_dc
>
>Basically stating that Win2K is cheaper than Linux. :-\\
>
>- Jon
>
>Analysis & Solutions wrote:
>
>>On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:14:38PM -0500, Jon Baer wrote:
>>
>>Uh, I ain't buyin' nutin'! 'Course, you gamme' nutin' to
>>buy.
>>
>>--Dan
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
>--- Unsubscribe at http://nyphp.org/list/ ---
>
>
From rainman at deroo.net Mon Dec 2 23:26:13 2002
From: rainman at deroo.net (The Rain Maker)
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 23:26:13 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] Anyone buying this? Linux vs. Win2k
In-Reply-To: <200212030358.gB33wmkh038893@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <5B8D44E2-0677-11D7-9EF3-0050E4E0697B@deroo.net>
Jon--
> My bad :-)
Eh, happens to the best of us... and the rest of us too :)
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=581&e=1&cid=581&u=/
> nm/20021202/tc_nm/tech_microsoft_linux_dc
>
> Basically stating that Win2K is cheaper than Linux. :-\\
And if I buy a commercial I can say just about anything I want too.
Now, I'm not here to start/get into an OS war (Yes, I am a Linux
bigot). However I will make the following observation. I debated though
high school, then went to college on a scholarship for debate. After
nearly 10 years of debating if I learned nothing, it was the truism
"Statistics lie." In so much that you can turn to support your
side/point/belief just as easily as your opponent can.
Those who wish to get into a urination contest, go find a different
stall...
.r
From danielc at analysisandsolutions.com Mon Dec 2 23:55:12 2002
From: danielc at analysisandsolutions.com (Analysis & Solutions)
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 23:55:12 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] Anyone buying this? Linux vs. Win2k
In-Reply-To: <200212030358.gB33wmkh038893@parsec.nyphp.org>
References: <200212030358.gB33wmkh038893@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <20021203045512.GA17489@panix.com>
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:58:48PM -0500, Jon Baer wrote:
>
> Basically stating that Win2K is cheaper than Linux. :-\\
Funny how they didn't mention the costs of the various BSD OS's.
Here are two of the prime quotes from the story:
"Personnel costs involved in the upkeep of Linux-based servers, which
manage networks of computers, far outweigh the benefits of being able to
obtain the software for free or at lower costs"
"For example, in order to support 100 full-time users
over a five year period on a networking server, Linux-based systems cost
$13,263 versus $11,787 for Microsoft, the IDC study said."
Now, that second quote doesn't say anything about the cost of the
operating software. Then, let's not forget the cost of MS Office and
other software for 100 workstations. Are those costs included in that
$11,787 figure? Sure doubt it.
--Dan
--
The new Department of Homeland Security is exempt from:
* the Freedom of Information Act * procurement rules
* labor collective bargaining * whistle blower protection
The real goal? Eliminating government accountability.
From MLynn at exchange.ml.com Tue Dec 3 06:24:07 2002
From: MLynn at exchange.ml.com (Lynn, Michael (DCS))
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 06:24:07 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] Anyone buying this? Linux vs. Win2k
Message-ID: <8FA07D8665A9D511B80E00B0D068A1510293AA9F@ehope16.hew.us.ml.com>
Anybody remember this: http://www.cyber.com.au/cyber/about/linux_vs_windows_tco_comparison.pdf
However, in the interest of fair competition. The above study pits RedHat 7.2 against Windows 2000 Advanced Server. Perhaps a more accurate study would incorporate one of the per-seat/per-server
Linuses against the Microsoft Solution. ie: RedHat Advanced Server (http://www.redhat.com/software/advancedserver/subscriptions/ bottom line cost $799 per seat on up through $2499 - and yes, you
really, really do have to pay RedHat for EVERY server you have running AS).
The Linux solution still wins based simply on the accompanying software licenses... I may plug in the numbers just to make sure - anybody interested?
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe M [mailto:joe_m at circlepressroom.com]
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 11:27 PM
To: NYPHP Talk
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Anyone buying this? Linux vs. Win2k
sorry, MY bad..meant to say "ha ha!"
well at least they admit as a web server linux is cheaper.
what do they think most folks are using it for?
joe (not a ms basher)m
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 22:58:48 -0500
Jon Baer wrote:
>My bad :-)
>
>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=581&e=1&cid=581&u=/nm/
>20021202/tc_nm/tech_microsoft_linux_dc
>
>Basically stating that Win2K is cheaper than Linux. :-\\
>
>- Jon
>
>Analysis & Solutions wrote:
>
>>On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:14:38PM -0500, Jon Baer wrote:
>>
>>Uh, I ain't buyin' nutin'! 'Course, you gamme' nutin' to
>>buy.
>>
>>--Dan
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
--- Unsubscribe at http://nyphp.org/list/ ---
From nyphp at websapp.com Tue Dec 3 06:39:07 2002
From: nyphp at websapp.com (Daniel Kushner)
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 06:39:07 -0500
Subject: [JOB] Senior Developer (PHP/Perl/Java/SQL), Washington DC Area
Message-ID: <001301c29ac0$9c46d000$7560c118@blackjack>
Please contact Alok K. Dhir (adhir at symplicity.com) if interested!
--Daniel
We have openings for a couple of experienced web application developers
who meet or exceed the following criteria:
Required skills (You *must* have 2.5+ years of each):
- Large scale applications development on Unix/Linux platform
- PHP
- Perl
- SQL (Oracle, MySQL preferred)
- D/HTML/CSS
- Javascript
- XML
- OO programming
- Source code control (CVS)
Desired skills:
- SOAP
- WSDL
- UDDI
- Java/JSP
- Linux/Unix
- Windows NT/2000/XP
- Python
- C/C++
Plusses:
- UML
- RUP
- understanding of various software development methodologies
- ability to work under pressure
- leadership ability
If you meet the requirements above, and are interested in working on
exciting projects with a strong DC area company, please send a cover
letter and resume with salary requirements to resumes at symplicity.com.
Thanks,
Alok K. Dhir
adhir at symplicity.com
Symplicity Corporation
http://solutions.symplicity.com/
From LarryC at indexstock.com Tue Dec 3 17:16:04 2002
From: LarryC at indexstock.com (Larry Chuon)
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 17:16:04 -0500
Subject: Application Server
Message-ID: <86713EAB93BD5F40B94A0C8E604C7C91AEB8EB@index-exchange.indexstock.com>
Hi,
I'm about to install and play with Ampoliros/Magellan and Midgard. I am
looking for a good application server based on PHP. Perhaps, you guys can
save me the trouble by telling me the pros and cons of the two apps. Based
on my reading, Midgard seems to have a better architecture, but Ampoliros
has more applications built for it (i.e. Magellan CMS).
I'm seeking for a framework that enable even dummies to manage the site.
Thanks in advance.
Larry
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From hans at nyphp.org Tue Dec 3 17:59:44 2002
From: hans at nyphp.org (Hans Zaunere)
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 14:59:44 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [nycphp-talk] Application Server
In-Reply-To: <200212032216.gB3MGFkh051488@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <20021203225944.31066.qmail@web12803.mail.yahoo.com>
--- Larry Chuon wrote:
> This message contained 1 file(s) and is available at
> http://nyphp.org/list/paralist_archive.php?L_mid=1800
I'm sorry about this Larry et al. I'm looking into the problem (the message
body was chopped off) and I've included the original message body below:
>Hi,
>
>I'm about to install and play with Ampoliros/Magellan and Midgard. I am
>looking for a good application server based on PHP. Perhaps, you guys can
>save me the trouble by telling me the pros and cons of the two apps. Based
>on my reading, Midgard seems to have a better architecture, but Ampoliros
>has more applications built for it (i.e. Magellan CMS).
>
>I'm seeking for a framework that enable even dummies to manage the site.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Larry
=====
Hans Zaunere
New York PHP
http://nyphp.org
hans at nyphp.org
From hans at nyphp.org Tue Dec 3 22:25:46 2002
From: hans at nyphp.org (Hans Zaunere)
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 19:25:46 -0800 (PST)
Subject: NYPHP in December
Message-ID: <20021204032546.91627.qmail@web12802.mail.yahoo.com>
Good evening,
As noted earlier, there won't be a NYPHP meeting in December due to conflicts
with Christmas. However, there are still some exciting events this month:
-- The monthly PHP Meetup (http://php.meetup.com) is only two days away, on
12/5 at the Remote Lounge.
-- NYLUG (http://nylug.org) will have it's monthly meeting on 12/18 at
6:30pm. This month's topic deals with monitoring and managing Linux in the
Enterprise and should be a great talk.
-- Then immediately following NYLUG's meeting, their yearly Holiday Party
takes place at the Old Stand, 914 3rd Ave. and 55th St. and are always a lot
of fun.
NYPHP meetings will resume in January, and any topics of interest for future
talks should be sent to contact at nyphp.org.
Happy Holidays,
=====
Hans Zaunere
New York PHP
http://nyphp.org
hans at nyphp.org
From MLynn at exchange.ml.com Wed Dec 4 16:12:43 2002
From: MLynn at exchange.ml.com (Lynn, Michael (DCS))
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 16:12:43 -0500
Subject: Newsletter Software
Message-ID: <8FA07D8665A9D511B80E00B0D068A1510293AAB8@ehope16.hew.us.ml.com>
Can anyone recommend some decent software to maintain a departmental newsletter?
Post/PHP Nuke are a bit overkill - I don't need user authentication, user management, subscription or anything like that... just something simple that will manage articles (that one admin produces),
sections and issues (eg: monthly).
Thanks,
Mike
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From tony at adytumsolutions.com Thu Dec 5 23:48:03 2002
From: tony at adytumsolutions.com (Tony Bollino)
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 23:48:03 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] Newsletter Software
References: <200212042113.gB4LD7kh058504@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <3DF02C03.7030303@adytumsolutions.com>
Try PHPLIST. It's easy to customize and uses a nice templating system
so you can easily send HTML email newsletters. The best part is that
it can handle multiple lists and not send the same newsletter to the
same person.
www.phplist.com
--
Tony Bollino
AdytumSolutions
Sales and Field Operations
301-788-6886
http://www.adytumsolutions.com
tony at adytumsolutions.com
************************************************
* "Not just a solution ... an AdytumSolution." *
************************************************
Lynn, Michael wrote:
>Can anyone recommend some decent software to maintain a departmental newsletter?
>
>Post/PHP Nuke are a bit overkill - I don't need user authentication, user management, subscription or anything like that... just something simple that will manage articles (that one admin produces),
>sections and issues (eg: monthly).
>
>Thanks,
>Mike
>
>
>
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From fb at intldef.org Fri Dec 6 13:46:50 2002
From: fb at intldef.org (FB`)
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:46:50 -0500
Subject: [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
References: <200212042113.gB4LD7kh058504@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <00ad01c29d57$d6a50610$1901a8c0@ybsweb>
Hi all, the company I'm working for is looking to get a part time web dev
person, mainly for work on existing/in progress sites.
Here's the posting as it went up on CL a bit earlier:
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YB Services, a full service design & development shop in Midtown, needs a
part time Web Developer comfortable with PHP & MySQL, CSS & HTML.
You will work onsite with our current developer on new and existing
projects, help create and maintain documentation and assist in web & file
server maintenance.
Approximately 20 hours a week, Pays $15/h, high likelihood of more time
involvement if things work well. Scheduling can be flexible/floating.
Please indicate availability (immediate preferred) in your reply.
Please send replies to webjobs at ybservices.com
--------------------------
FB`
From jonathan at hirschman.net Fri Dec 6 15:29:43 2002
From: jonathan at hirschman.net (jonathan)
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:29:43 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
In-Reply-To: <200212061848.gB6ImIO9072467@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID:
Just out of curiosity, is this really the going rate for PHP talent these
days? Seems just a bit low, especially with no benefits and the like.
jonathan
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, FB` wrote:
> Approximately 20 hours a week, Pays $15/h, high likelihood of more time
> involvement if things work well. Scheduling can be flexible/floating.
From jonathan at hirschman.net Fri Dec 6 16:00:51 2002
From: jonathan at hirschman.net (jonathan)
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 16:00:51 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
Just out of curiosity, is this really the going rate for PHP talent these
days? Seems just a bit low, especially with no benefits and the like.
jonathan
>
> On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, FB` wrote:
>
> > Approximately 20 hours a week, Pays $15/h, high likelihood of more time
> > involvement if things work well. Scheduling can be flexible/floating.
>
>
From agfische at email.smith.edu Fri Dec 6 15:57:23 2002
From: agfische at email.smith.edu (Aaron Fischer)
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 15:57:23 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
Message-ID:
My experience is that that is far below the norm, and I am in a
significantly smaller (and cheaper) city then Manhattan.
>>> jonathan at hirschman.net 12/06/02 03:48PM >>>
Just out of curiosity, is this really the going rate for PHP talent
these
days? Seems just a bit low, especially with no benefits and the like.
jonathan
>
> On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, FB` wrote:
>
> > Approximately 20 hours a week, Pays $15/h, high likelihood of more
time
> > involvement if things work well. Scheduling can be
flexible/floating.
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From fb at intldef.org Fri Dec 6 16:01:48 2002
From: fb at intldef.org (FB`)
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 16:01:48 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
References: <200212062048.gB6KmAO9073172@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <01db01c29d6a$b19632a0$1901a8c0@ybsweb>
Yeah it's low... but we're also not looking for someone who's really "PHP
talent" in the good sense of that term...
It's a job for a studentish type person, really...
FB`
----- Original Message -----
From: "jonathan"
To: "NYPHP Talk"
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
> Just out of curiosity, is this really the going rate for PHP talent these
> days? Seems just a bit low, especially with no benefits and the like.
>
> jonathan
> >
> > On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, FB` wrote:
> >
> > > Approximately 20 hours a week, Pays $15/h, high likelihood of more
time
> > > involvement if things work well. Scheduling can be flexible/floating.
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From rainman at deroo.net Fri Dec 6 16:06:48 2002
From: rainman at deroo.net (The Rain Maker)
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 16:06:48 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
In-Reply-To: <200212062048.gB6KmAO9073172@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID:
Jonathan--
> Just out of curiosity, is this really the going rate for PHP talent
> these
> days? Seems just a bit low, especially with no benefits and the like.
>
>>> Approximately 20 hours a week, Pays $15/h, high likelihood of more
>>> time
>>> involvement if things work well. Scheduling can be flexible/floating.
For a Jr position, yea I would say that is a little low to about par.
There is some real talent in the market place today, especially if you
don't need them "in the office". I've seen some of the PHP developers
(those with commit privs) doing work for $40/hr. If they can do the
work of a Jr person in half the time (and probably better quality work)
I'm willing to pay the extra $10 for that kind of talent.
.r
Raymond DeRoo
Senior Partner
(203) 952-3900
From mike at hilliardfarber.com Fri Dec 6 16:15:17 2002
From: mike at hilliardfarber.com (Michael J Lee)
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 16:15:17 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
In-Reply-To: <200212062102.gB6L2TO9073261@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID:
Hello.
Can someone tell me who should be contacted about this job listing? Is in
depth PHP knowledge required? I know a guy fresh out of school but not too
much PHP know how. Thanks!
Mike Lee
-----Original Message-----
From: FB` [mailto:fb at intldef.org]
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 4:02 PM
To: NYPHP Talk
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
Yeah it's low... but we're also not looking for someone who's really "PHP
talent" in the good sense of that term...
It's a job for a studentish type person, really...
FB`
----- Original Message -----
From: "jonathan"
To: "NYPHP Talk"
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
> Just out of curiosity, is this really the going rate for PHP talent these
> days? Seems just a bit low, especially with no benefits and the like.
>
> jonathan
> >
> > On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, FB` wrote:
> >
> > > Approximately 20 hours a week, Pays $15/h, high likelihood of more
time
> > > involvement if things work well. Scheduling can be flexible/floating.
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From mike at hilliardfarber.com Fri Dec 6 16:22:02 2002
From: mike at hilliardfarber.com (Michael J Lee)
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 16:22:02 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
In-Reply-To: <200212062057.gB6KvjO9073223@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID:
Hello.
Can someone tell me who should be contacted about this job listing? Is in
depth PHP knowledge required? I know a guy fresh out of school but not too
much PHP know how. Thanks!
Mike Lee
-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Fischer [mailto:agfische at email.smith.edu]
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 3:58 PM
To: NYPHP Talk
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
My experience is that that is far below the norm, and I am in a
significantly smaller (and cheaper) city then Manhattan.
>>> jonathan at hirschman.net 12/06/02 03:48PM >>>
Just out of curiosity, is this really the going rate for PHP talent
these
days? Seems just a bit low, especially with no benefits and the like.
jonathan
>
> On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, FB` wrote:
>
> > Approximately 20 hours a week, Pays $15/h, high likelihood of more
time
> > involvement if things work well. Scheduling can be
flexible/floating.
>
>
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From jonathan at hirschman.net Fri Dec 6 16:52:10 2002
From: jonathan at hirschman.net (jonathan)
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 16:52:10 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
In-Reply-To: <200212062106.gB6L6xO9073293@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID:
Wow, $40/hour for the developers with commit privs?
I think that a career in PHP is not in my future :)
jonathan
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, The Rain Maker wrote:
> Jonathan--
>
> For a Jr position, yea I would say that is a little low to about par.
> There is some real talent in the market place today, especially if you
> don't need them "in the office". I've seen some of the PHP developers
> (those with commit privs) doing work for $40/hr. If they can do the
> work of a Jr person in half the time (and probably better quality work)
> I'm willing to pay the extra $10 for that kind of talent.
>
From sterling at bumblebury.com Fri Dec 6 17:01:59 2002
From: sterling at bumblebury.com (Sterling Hughes)
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 17:01:59 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
In-Reply-To: <200212062140.gB6Le9O9073594@parsec.nyphp.org>
References: <200212062140.gB6Le9O9073594@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <20021206220159.GB74026@bumblebury.com>
> Wow, $40/hour for the developers with commit privs?
>
> I think that a career in PHP is not in my future :)
>
that's just a very lowball offer, i make a whole lot more than that
for php consulting.
Keep in mind - it depends on your experience, plain php jobs tend to
be on the low-side, the idea is to charge for solutions, if php happens
to help you accomplish the job, then great. Looking to go into the
industry as a "PHP Programmer" is frankly benign. Look to get in the
industry as a programmer, and if PHP is helpful in getting your job
done, great use it. If not, use cold fusion, perl, python, php, asp,
c, c++, java, assembler, whatever tool is best/most suitable for the
task at hand.
-Sterling
From jonbaer at jonbaer.net Fri Dec 6 17:02:44 2002
From: jonbaer at jonbaer.net (Jon Baer)
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 17:02:44 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
References: <200212062125.gB6LP9O9073427@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <3DF11E84.4070807@jonbaer.net>
You know ... this REALLY leads to a better discussion on possible PHP
Certification of some kind (I doubt CompTIA will do a PHP+ any time
soon), but considering nearly every language has it, it sure would help
sift through some people for a gig Id think.
In fact I wish there was something for PHP/MySQL in terms of saying you
know what you are doing and can back it up ... thoughts?
- Jon
Michael J Lee wrote:
>Hello.
>Can someone tell me who should be contacted about this job listing? Is in
>depth PHP knowledge required? I know a guy fresh out of school but not too
>much PHP know how. Thanks!
>
>Mike Lee
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Aaron Fischer [mailto:agfische at email.smith.edu]
>Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 3:58 PM
>To: NYPHP Talk
>Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
>
>
>My experience is that that is far below the norm, and I am in a
>significantly smaller (and cheaper) city then Manhattan.
>
>
>
>
>>>>jonathan at hirschman.net 12/06/02 03:48PM >>>
>>>>
>>>>
>Just out of curiosity, is this really the going rate for PHP talent
>these
>days? Seems just a bit low, especially with no benefits and the like.
>
>jonathan
>
>
>>On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, FB` wrote:
>>
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>>>Approximately 20 hours a week, Pays $15/h, high likelihood of more
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>time
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From dan at dwc.to Fri Dec 6 17:20:28 2002
From: dan at dwc.to (Dan Horning)
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 17:20:28 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
In-Reply-To: <200212062203.gB6M3kO9073742@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <000001c29d75$b022f290$a7c484d0@dwchome>
Hey everyone
If you'd like to start some sort of online PHP cert test... lets
see what we can do. And as far as I've seen php.net hasn't even been
talking about anything like it.
Dan
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Baer [mailto:jonbaer at jonbaer.net]
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 5:04 PM
To: NYPHP Talk
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
You know ... this REALLY leads to a better discussion on possible PHP
Certification of some kind (I doubt CompTIA will do a PHP+ any time
soon), but considering nearly every language has it, it sure would help
sift through some people for a gig Id think.
In fact I wish there was something for PHP/MySQL in terms of saying you
know what you are doing and can back it up ... thoughts?
- Jon
Michael J Lee wrote:
>Hello.
>Can someone tell me who should be contacted about this job listing? Is
in
>depth PHP knowledge required? I know a guy fresh out of school but not
too
>much PHP know how. Thanks!
>
>Mike Lee
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Aaron Fischer [mailto:agfische at email.smith.edu]
>Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 3:58 PM
>To: NYPHP Talk
>Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
>
>
>My experience is that that is far below the norm, and I am in a
>significantly smaller (and cheaper) city then Manhattan.
>
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>>>>jonathan at hirschman.net 12/06/02 03:48PM >>>
>>>>
>>>>
>Just out of curiosity, is this really the going rate for PHP talent
>these
>days? Seems just a bit low, especially with no benefits and the like.
>
>jonathan
>
>
>>On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, FB` wrote:
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From danielc at analysisandsolutions.com Fri Dec 6 17:22:17 2002
From: danielc at analysisandsolutions.com (Analysis & Solutions)
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 17:22:17 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
In-Reply-To: <200212062203.gB6M3kO9073742@parsec.nyphp.org>
References: <200212062203.gB6M3kO9073742@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <20021206222217.GA5838@panix.com>
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 05:03:46PM -0500, Jon Baer wrote:
> You know ... this REALLY leads to a better discussion on possible PHP
> Certification of some kind
Bah. Certification can just mean you're good at taking tests. Doesn't
necessarily reflect real world smarts, discipline, nor research and
hacking skills.
A good interview, references and coding examples prove far more than any
certification test.
In fact, requiring certification for a position will likely have you miss
some really star tallent -- like myself :) -- who don't go along with that
paradigm.
Enjoy,
--Dan
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From jonbaer at jonbaer.net Fri Dec 6 17:38:03 2002
From: jonbaer at jonbaer.net (Jon Baer)
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 17:38:03 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
References: <200212062222.gB6MMMO9073874@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <3DF126CB.3050601@jonbaer.net>
Analysis & Solutions wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 05:03:46PM -0500, Jon Baer wrote:
>
>
>>You know ... this REALLY leads to a better discussion on possible PHP
>>Certification of some kind
>>
>>
>
>Bah. Certification can just mean you're good at taking tests. Doesn't
>necessarily reflect real world smarts, discipline, nor research and
>hacking skills.
>
>A good interview, references and coding examples prove far more than any
>certification test.
>
>
Im gonna partly agree with you. I myself have a few years of JSP, ATG
Dynamo, [insert your favorite J2EE app server here], but have *yet* to
land a PHP/MySQL gig (in the middle of a convert project right now), I
have been so tempted to stay away from certification but without
employers being EXTREMELY specific on what they are looking for instead
of jotting down every acronym they have seen in a magazine somewhere,
what other options do you have?
Its either:
[Business] needs X, Y, Z
Candidate has done X,Y,Z
Candidate has never done X,Y,Z but certified to know how to do X,Y,Z.
How diverse and broad is PHP for a project? Extremely, and to me (it
seems anyway), that if you can SSH ur way into a companies site to do
work, there should be no questions asked, certification or no
certification. So im not complaining, good experience makes up for it
to some degree but I really wonder how many resumes a biz guy is going
to get these days that all look the same.
- Jon
From rainman at deroo.net Fri Dec 6 18:23:19 2002
From: rainman at deroo.net (The Rain Maker)
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 18:23:19 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
In-Reply-To: <200212062202.gB6M25O9073732@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID:
> done, great use it. If not, use cold fusion, perl, python, php, asp,
> c, c++, java, assembler, whatever tool is best/most suitable for the
> task at hand.
Amen! Well, rather than doing CF I think would rather be strung up by
my... ;) But as much as I am a Unix bigot (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, AIX)
I have a number of client that use Microsoft server products because
they are still the best solution for their needs. (What I would give
for an Open Source replacement for Exchange!) My biggest grip about PHP
programmer/coders is that PHP is often the only tool they know. As such
they tend to stuff from "If you only have a hammer, all the world is a
nail." (I won't even go into my thoughts on php-gtk).
Raymond DeRoo
Senior Partner
(203) 952-3900
From hans at nyphp.org Fri Dec 6 18:25:43 2002
From: hans at nyphp.org (Hans Zaunere)
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 15:25:43 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
In-Reply-To: <200212062222.gB6MMMO9073874@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <20021206232543.84697.qmail@web12806.mail.yahoo.com>
--- Analysis & Solutions wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 05:03:46PM -0500, Jon Baer wrote:
> > You know ... this REALLY leads to a better discussion on possible PHP
> > Certification of some kind
>
> Bah. Certification can just mean you're good at taking tests. Doesn't
> necessarily reflect real world smarts, discipline, nor research and
> hacking skills.
Sure... the same could be said for college, too.
> A good interview, references and coding examples prove far more than any
> certification test.
>
> In fact, requiring certification for a position will likely have you miss
> some really star tallent -- like myself :) -- who don't go along with that
> paradigm.
I agree, but requiring a college degree can cause the same problem. I guess
my point is, while people in-the-know (developers, for instance) know that a
cert. doesn't necessarily signal a person's skill, IT managers and directors
like the piece of paper - the CYA idea, mainly.
I think a PHP cert. would be valuable, not only to those who hold one, but
also to the language, as a confirmation of a technology's seriousness -
again, in the eyes of the manager/director. This would be a great project,
but very time consuming, IMHO (preparing a test and course material, etc)
H
=====
Hans Zaunere
New York PHP
http://nyphp.org
hans at nyphp.org
From rainman at deroo.net Fri Dec 6 18:53:55 2002
From: rainman at deroo.net (The Rain Maker)
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 18:53:55 -0500
Subject: You vs The Other Guy (was PT Junior Developer)
In-Reply-To: <200212062239.gB6Md6O9073991@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID:
**warning: long
>> Bah. Certification can just mean you're good at taking tests.
>> Doesn't
>> necessarily reflect real world smarts, discipline, nor research and
>> hacking skills.
>>
>> A good interview, references and coding examples prove far more than
>> any
>> certification test.
Here I very much agree.
> what other options do you have?
>
> Its either:
>
> [Business] needs X, Y, Z
> Candidate has done X,Y,Z
> Candidate has never done X,Y,Z but certified to know how to do X,Y,Z.
>
> to some degree but I really wonder how many resumes a biz guy is going
> to get these days that all look the same.
Here you make a valid point. And I have sat on both sides of the table,
something in the same day. Running a consulting firm means that either
my resume or the "company resume" needs to make a lasting enough
impression to get a second look. If you get that second look, you will
be remembered.
Now, as the person sitting behind the desk. I can say most definitely,
you're resume is nothing more than a bullet list of accomplishments. If
it's more than two page, 99% chance I won't read it (if it's four or
more, it won't even get to my desk for review). What *I* want to see on
a resume is a list of skills, who you worked for and when. That's
really it. Now if you want to make the "A List" pile (the ones I take
home and review at dinner/whatever), you *MUST* have a cover letter. I
want to know 1) what it is you want to do. 2) What it is you have done
that is related to my project/job. 3) Why you think you would be one of
my better choice.
Whether applying for a job, or trying to get 'that contract' these
truism hold. Other points I'll make for those who've read this far.
o Unless you are applying for position in Europe, don't call your
resume a CV. You look stupid and ALT-F4 is a fast key stroke.
o If you put your resume online on your own website, make sure it
looks the way you want in all browsers. *Nothing* makes you look more
incompetent for a (PHP|language of choice)/Web job than your own resume
looking dorked. *Don't* make any assumptions here. I use a Mac running
OS X. which means I could be in Mozilla, Opera or IE.
o Make sure those you put down for references are going to give
*good* references. The law (In CT at least) requires that references be
giving and checked. If the person you give also able to confirm they
know you and the dates you where employed you might as well consider
that a bad reference. (I do)
o This seems obvious, but don't lie. References are asked pointed
questions long delays in answers are generally not a good sign.
o (Personal point here) A letter of recommendation is meaning less.
I can get ahold of much company stationary and produce as many of those
as I want
All in all, have code examples and a working site to point generally
means more than anything. Certification mean even less to the
*knowledge* hiring manager.
.r (CNE, ECNE, A+, MCSE+I, CNP, ACE, and soon CCIE)
From cynthia at nemesis2.com Fri Dec 6 19:34:55 2002
From: cynthia at nemesis2.com (Cynthia LaPier)
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 19:34:55 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
In-Reply-To: <200212062222.gB6MMMO9073874@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID:
Over the years Ihave interviewed many many people with certifications -
most of whom I would never employ. As the CIO of a non-profit
organization, as a former system engineer in the private sector, I can say
with complete confidence - certifications have done nothing to improve the
skill sets of tech staff. They have not increased the professionalism of
it workers. Indeed, all I can see is that they have increased is the
profits of computer "schools." I would rather look at experience and
examples of programming as a "certification" that a potential employee has
the stuff needed.
CLP
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Analysis & Solutions wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 05:03:46PM -0500, Jon Baer wrote:
> > You know ... this REALLY leads to a better discussion on possible PHP
> > Certification of some kind
>
> Bah. Certification can just mean you're good at taking tests. Doesn't
> necessarily reflect real world smarts, discipline, nor research and
> hacking skills.
>
> A good interview, references and coding examples prove far more than any
> certification test.
>
> In fact, requiring certification for a position will likely have you miss
> some really star tallent -- like myself :) -- who don't go along with that
> paradigm.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> --Dan
>
>
From JayeshSh at netscape.net Fri Dec 6 21:58:48 2002
From: JayeshSh at netscape.net (Jayesh Sheth)
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 21:58:48 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] You vs The Other Guy
References: <200212062354.gB6Ns6St074462@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <3DF163E8.2070905@netscape.net>
Hello,
Just responding to your note:
> The Rain Maker wrote:
>Running a consulting firm means that either
>my resume or the "company resume" needs to make a lasting enough
>impression to get a second look. If you get that second look, you will
>be remembered.
>
>
I agree that a resume should make its owner memorable in the eyes of
the potential employer. However, it can only be memorable to the
potential employer if it advertises those qualifications the employer is
looking for. Additionally, it should meet the length requirements
desired by the potential employer. Which brings me to my next point:
cultural/ international differences in desired resume length and content.
>
>
>Now, as the person sitting behind the desk. I can say most definitely,
>you're resume is nothing more than a bullet list of accomplishments. If
>it's more than two page, 99% chance I won't read it (if it's four or
>more, it won't even get to my desk for review). What *I* want to see on
>a resume is a list of skills, who you worked for and when. That's
>really it. Now if you want to make the "A List" pile (the ones I take
>home and review at dinner/whatever), you *MUST* have a cover letter. I
>want to know 1) what it is you want to do. 2) What it is you have done
>that is related to my project/job. 3) Why you think you would be one of
>my better choice.
>
>
I guess, in America, the shorter the sweeter, right? Additionally, as
you stated, what is important to you in making a hiring decision is what
the applicant's skills and experience are like, and if the applicant
desires to work and is capable of working for you. So, all you would
like to know is the facts - " just the facts, sir".
>
> o Unless you are applying for position in Europe, don't call your
>resume a CV. You look stupid and ALT-F4 is a fast key stroke.
>
>
In Europe, or more specifically Germany (where I worked recently before
forming my own web design company in NYC) a resume is not called a
resume. It is called a Lebenslauf - i.e. a list of your life-long
experiences. So, you write your "resume" or Lebenslauf in chronological
order: where you were born, where you went to high school, where you
went to college, what you studied, what degree you got, where you worked
thereafter, hobbies - and at the end, you list your skills. In America,
you list your skills at the top to avoid "wasting the other person's
time". In Germany, you have to first establish who you are, where you
come from and where you have been before you can stand up and announce
your qualifications. In Germany a normal resume can be 4 pages. The more
detailed, the better!
I personally like to know more about a person than what he or she can
"do"; somehow, I am curious as to what makes the person tick, what his
or her interests are. Maybe I just have not been around long enough to
learn that all that stuff is really irrelevant - that in the "real"
world all that counts is what's in your head, what "added value" you
can bring to a company. Maybe I have yet to realize that all that it
comes down to is what is in my head, and if that information can be
successfully summoned to solve someone else's problems.
But somehow, each time I try to entertain that notion - that it's just
what I know, not who I am which signifies my human worth - I am forced
to dismiss it. At the liberal arts college I studied at, the professors
always mentioned seeing things from different angles; they always asked
us the think about the big picture. I ask myself , and all of you now
too: are a person's history, character, personal experiences, personal
victories and personal failures not of importance too? Are they not part
of the bigger picture surrounding our professional lives?
Regards,
- Jay
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From jonbaer at jonbaer.net Fri Dec 6 22:08:49 2002
From: jonbaer at jonbaer.net (Jon Baer)
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 22:08:49 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
References: <200212062325.gB6NPnO9074284@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <3DF16641.9080004@jonbaer.net>
Hans Zaunere wrote:
>I think a PHP cert. would be valuable, not only to those who hold one, but
>also to the language, as a confirmation of a technology's seriousness -
>again, in the eyes of the manager/director. This would be a great project,
>but very time consuming, IMHO (preparing a test and course material, etc)
>
>
I think PHP though is just one element, can't have really one without
the other, for example if you look at this course:
http://gracie.santarosa.edu/web_training/php-cert.shtml
Stating that SQL is mandatory along with Unix admining is not pretty
neutral in my opinion but there are parts that should be included with a
PHP Developer certification ... you then have the option that if a
business required work w/ Oracle vs. MySQL that certification either way
will not matter, the person w/ more Oracle experience will win out even
if its against the "better" PHP programmer. (Would this be true?)
I think most/some of certifications are such a sham, much like the
wireless networking exams now, but there are not many options when
people have not met face to face and a developer is working project to
project for his paycheck. Good personality, clean certificate, and a
smile? :-)
- Jon
From lists at ehummel.net Sat Dec 7 00:02:55 2002
From: lists at ehummel.net (Erik)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 00:02:55 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] You vs The Other Guy
In-Reply-To: <200212070258.gB72wxSt075436@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <000201c29dad$eb5897b0$0200a8c0@laptophum>
Jay wrote: ------------------------------
I ask myself, and all of you now too: are a person's history, character,
personal experiences, personal victories and personal failures not of
importance too? Are they not part of the bigger picture surrounding our
professional lives?
-----------------------------------------
I agree that all of that is important. Yet it can wait to be shown at an
interview. When a position gets 250 applicants, does someone want to
skim through all of that to get to the part where they can see if the
applicant even has the skills necessary for the job? The answer is no.
First and foremost when applying for a job is whether you can do it. If
your resume clearly shows you can through a skills listing and past
employment, then you should get an interview.
The interview should contain all the personal experience questions that
allow the hiring person to get a better idea of who the applicant is and
how well they would fit in with the group. Then they can make a decision
on which of the interviewees gets the position.
My $.02
Erik
From zaunere at yahoo.com Sat Dec 7 13:30:55 2002
From: zaunere at yahoo.com (Hans Zaunere)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 10:30:55 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
In-Reply-To: <200212070449.gB74nLSt075957@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <20021207183055.50329.qmail@web12802.mail.yahoo.com>
--- Jon Baer wrote:
> Hans Zaunere wrote:
>
> >I think a PHP cert. would be valuable, not only to those who hold one, but
> >also to the language, as a confirmation of a technology's seriousness -
> >again, in the eyes of the manager/director. This would be a great
> project,
> >but very time consuming, IMHO (preparing a test and course material, etc)
> >
> >
> I think PHP though is just one element, can't have really one without
> the other, for example if you look at this course:
>
> http://gracie.santarosa.edu/web_training/php-cert.shtml
It's funny that you mention how much PHP is related to other technologies.
While I was home over Thanksgiving, my dad (who had taught me C in the early
days) had wanted to get a crash course in PHP. Thinking this would be a good
way to spend some father-son time, I said sure (I expected him to catch on
quickly) but as I began talking about PHP and such, I realized how many
smaller things it's dependant on - SQL, HTML/etc, Apache interaction, MySQL
(in this case) interaction.
> Stating that SQL is mandatory along with Unix admining is not pretty
> neutral in my opinion but there are parts that should be included with a
> PHP Developer certification ... you then have the option that if a
> business required work w/ Oracle vs. MySQL that certification either way
> will not matter, the person w/ more Oracle experience will win out even
> if its against the "better" PHP programmer. (Would this be true?)
In some cases, I think so. But as many of us have come across, there are
many different facets of PHP - possibly "PHP Designer", "PHP Developer", and
"PHP Architect" (divied up further into Oracle/MySQL/PostGreSQL/etc) tracks?
Sure, each overlaps a bit, but there really is a focus on signigicantly
different technologies in each area. And, as I found, trying to teach/learn
PHP, as simply a language, is about exciting and rewarding as
teaching/learning C (ok, I know - it's fun for some).
> I think most/some of certifications are such a sham, much like the
> wireless networking exams now, but there are not many options when
> people have not met face to face and a developer is working project to
> project for his paycheck. Good personality, clean certificate, and a
> smile? :-)
Sure. A cert, while ambiguous to the developers themselves, can often cut
through a lot of the uncertainty that an employer has about an employer.
H
=====
Hans Zaunere
New York PHP
http://nyphp.org
hans at nyphp.org
From peter at panvox.net Sat Dec 7 14:32:23 2002
From: peter at panvox.net (Peter Simard)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 14:32:23 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
In-Reply-To: <200212071831.gB7IV1St082474@parsec.nyphp.org>
References: <200212071831.gB7IV1St082474@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <16542678703.20021207143223@panvox.net>
Just weighing in;
Somewhere I heard that certification simply means one knows enough to
do damage. More than anything, it shows you know how to learn, which
is a positive in and of itself.
Personally I found PHP made more sense, and was easier to employ after
I learned to program in JAVA. Prior to that I could use PHP, but I
really was deficient in a whole slew of areas.
So, if certification comes around, great, but barring that, if PHP is
the main base of ones knowledge, I'd suggest learning JAVA, or C++, or
any strongly typed language for that matter, leaning more to OOP if
possible.
PHP is so forgiving in that it dynamically types everything, it's
incredibly easy to make an error and hunt around for hours looking for
it, where if one was more familiar with a stricter language, one
might expend much less effort, and hair, in those situations.
Just my .31 cents ( adjusted for inflation )....
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From weslists at anapraxis.com Sun Dec 8 01:31:09 2002
From: weslists at anapraxis.com (Weston Houghton)
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 01:31:09 -0500
Subject: Free Util: apxDebug
Message-ID:
Hey all,
I've been meaning to write a simple debug tracking class for use in my
own projects. So this week I finally did. I have no clue if anyone else
would ever use it, or have any interest in looking at it, but I've set
it up for people to download it if you have any interest. Regardless, I
would love if people wanted to take a look at it and just give me
general comments on the code.
http://www.anapraxis.com/os/apxDebug/
What does it do?
It's just a simple tool for logging debug messages from within any
other php development. Being a MacOS X user for developing and serving,
I find that many of the nice tools, such as Zend's aren't available for
real debugging. So I frequently am writing values out to screen for
debugging. This tool separates them mostly from whatever you are
working on and let's you classify them, and show/hide groups of them
when browsing. I've set up a simple online demo, but since it really is
for development it may be hard to understand without just trying it out
in your own code.
I've been developing tools for installations on clients intranet
servers lately too, to where I cannot see in, but they can see out. So
I have written the tool to both log the debug info to a text file, as
well as email the logfile to an address through the browser pop-up.
Right now it only does html emails, but I am working on getting it
setup to handle plain text and mixed mode as well.
It uses css, dhtml, and javascript for the display so likely requires
gecko or MSIE 5 or higher. Also, if you are just interested in seeing
php and javascript work together, it might be a good introduction for
you, nothing complicated, I just use php to feed in some of the js
variables.
Anyhow, drop me a line with any questions if you have them, or feature
requests, I'd love to know if anyone else besides me would actually use
this thing. :) Oh, and if it just completely screws up for you, let me
know too. I'd call this a 0.9 beta version, so I'm sure it will find a
way to surprise me.
Cheers,
Wes
From soazine at erols.com Sun Dec 8 14:32:23 2002
From: soazine at erols.com (Phil Powell)
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 14:32:23 -0500
Subject: fopen have a "setTimeout" feature?
Message-ID: <004c01c29ef0$893a1560$dcbe6444@scandinawa1bo6>
Can you set something like a "setTimeout" feature in fopen? That is, if you use fopen to open a URL for "scraping", if that URL's server is down or doesn't respond in x seconds, can you set a feature to show an error message or a "friendly" error message indicating such?
Thanx
Phil
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From nyphp at altunergil.com Sun Dec 8 15:07:58 2002
From: nyphp at altunergil.com (Oktay Altunergil)
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:07:58 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] fopen have a "setTimeout" feature?
In-Reply-To: <200212081935.gB8JZ9St090085@parsec.nyphp.org>
References: <200212081935.gB8JZ9St090085@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <20021208150758.71c4e385.nyphp@altunergil.com>
Might this be what you're looking for?
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stream-set-timeout.php
oktay
On Sun, 08 Dec 2002 14:35:09 -0500
Phil Powell wrote:
> Can you set something like a "setTimeout" feature in fopen? That is, if you use fopen to open a URL for "scraping", if that URL's server is down or doesn't respond in x seconds, can you set a feature to show an error message or a "friendly" error message indicating such?
>
> Thanx
> Phil
>
>
>
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From timward at chessish.com Sun Dec 8 15:10:23 2002
From: timward at chessish.com (Tim Ward)
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 20:10:23 -0000
Subject: [PHP] fopen have a "setTimeout" feature?
References: <004c01c29ef0$893a1560$dcbe6444@scandinawa1bo6>
Message-ID: <000d01c29ef5$d8118c40$78071f3e@tim>
how about something like...
$start = time();
$timeout = 60; // number of seconds to try
while (!$file = fopen("...") && time() < $start + $timeout);
if ($file)
{ // do stuff with file
}
Tim Ward
http://www.chessish.com
mailto:timward at chessish.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Powell
To: ;
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 7:32 PM
Subject: [PHP] fopen have a "setTimeout" feature?
Can you set something like a "setTimeout" feature in fopen? That is, if you
use fopen to open a URL for "scraping", if that URL's server is down or
doesn't respond in x seconds, can you set a feature to show an error message
or a "friendly" error message indicating such?
Thanx
Phil
From seth at ghiek.com Sun Dec 8 22:20:26 2002
From: seth at ghiek.com (Seth [Ghiek])
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 22:20:26 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
In-Reply-To: <200212062325.gB6NPnO9074284@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID:
I think Brainbench is already offering one for php. if anyone is interested,
i can check further.
spirits,
seth j hersh
-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Zaunere [mailto:hans at nyphp.org]
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 6:26 PM
To: NYPHP Talk
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
--- Analysis & Solutions wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 05:03:46PM -0500, Jon Baer wrote:
> > You know ... this REALLY leads to a better discussion on possible PHP
> > Certification of some kind
>
> Bah. Certification can just mean you're good at taking tests. Doesn't
> necessarily reflect real world smarts, discipline, nor research and
> hacking skills.
Sure... the same could be said for college, too.
> A good interview, references and coding examples prove far more than any
> certification test.
>
> In fact, requiring certification for a position will likely have you miss
> some really star tallent -- like myself :) -- who don't go along with that
> paradigm.
I agree, but requiring a college degree can cause the same problem. I guess
my point is, while people in-the-know (developers, for instance) know that a
cert. doesn't necessarily signal a person's skill, IT managers and directors
like the piece of paper - the CYA idea, mainly.
I think a PHP cert. would be valuable, not only to those who hold one, but
also to the language, as a confirmation of a technology's seriousness -
again, in the eyes of the manager/director. This would be a great project,
but very time consuming, IMHO (preparing a test and course material, etc)
H
=====
Hans Zaunere
New York PHP
http://nyphp.org
hans at nyphp.org
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From vinay_chinnam at yahoo.com Mon Dec 9 00:27:33 2002
From: vinay_chinnam at yahoo.com (Vinay Chinnam)
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 21:27:33 -0800 (PST)
Subject: PHP cert
In-Reply-To: <200212090319.gB93JjSt092278@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <20021209052733.98646.qmail@web13608.mail.yahoo.com>
You are right . Brainbench does offer a php 4 test and
they also have a MySQL test coming out soon ..
http://www.brainbench.com/xml/bb/common/testcenter/alltests.xml
--- "Seth [Ghiek]" wrote:
> I think Brainbench is already offering one for php.
> if anyone is interested,
> i can check further.
>
> spirits,
>
> seth j hersh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hans Zaunere [mailto:hans at nyphp.org]
> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 6:26 PM
> To: NYPHP Talk
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer,
> Manhattan
>
>
>
> --- Analysis & Solutions
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 05:03:46PM -0500, Jon Baer
> wrote:
> > > You know ... this REALLY leads to a better
> discussion on possible PHP
> > > Certification of some kind
> >
> > Bah. Certification can just mean you're good at
> taking tests. Doesn't
> > necessarily reflect real world smarts, discipline,
> nor research and
> > hacking skills.
>
> Sure... the same could be said for college, too.
>
> > A good interview, references and coding examples
> prove far more than any
> > certification test.
> >
> > In fact, requiring certification for a position
> will likely have you miss
> > some really star tallent -- like myself :) -- who
> don't go along with that
> > paradigm.
>
> I agree, but requiring a college degree can cause
> the same problem. I guess
> my point is, while people in-the-know (developers,
> for instance) know that a
> cert. doesn't necessarily signal a person's skill,
> IT managers and directors
> like the piece of paper - the CYA idea, mainly.
>
> I think a PHP cert. would be valuable, not only to
> those who hold one, but
> also to the language, as a confirmation of a
> technology's seriousness -
> again, in the eyes of the manager/director. This
> would be a great project,
> but very time consuming, IMHO (preparing a test and
> course material, etc)
>
> H
>
>
> =====
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> New York PHP
> http://nyphp.org
> hans at nyphp.org
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From soazine at erols.com Mon Dec 9 01:46:03 2002
From: soazine at erols.com (Phil Powell)
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 01:46:03 -0500
Subject: [PHP] fopen have a "setTimeout" feature?
References: <004c01c29ef0$893a1560$dcbe6444@scandinawa1bo6> <000d01c29ef5$d8118c40$78071f3e@tim>
Message-ID: <013901c29f4e$a57aa920$dcbe6444@scandinawa1bo6>
Sorry, your code produced this error and I can't figure out how to debug it
:(
Warning:
fopen("http://www3.brinkster.com/soa/val/profile/display.asp?showLeftNavBann
er=1","r") - Error 0 in /users/ppowell/web/profiledisplay.php on line 4
Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Ward"
To: "Phil Powell" ; ;
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] fopen have a "setTimeout" feature?
> how about something like...
>
> $start = time();
> $timeout = 60; // number of seconds to try
> while (!$file = fopen("...") && time() < $start + $timeout);
> if ($file)
> { // do stuff with file
> }
>
> Tim Ward
> http://www.chessish.com
> mailto:timward at chessish.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Phil Powell
> To: ;
> Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 7:32 PM
> Subject: [PHP] fopen have a "setTimeout" feature?
>
>
> Can you set something like a "setTimeout" feature in fopen? That is, if
you
> use fopen to open a URL for "scraping", if that URL's server is down or
> doesn't respond in x seconds, can you set a feature to show an error
message
> or a "friendly" error message indicating such?
>
> Thanx
> Phil
>
>
From soazine at erols.com Mon Dec 9 02:06:08 2002
From: soazine at erols.com (Phil Powell)
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 02:06:08 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] fopen have a "setTimeout" feature?
References: <200212082007.gB8K7aSt090248@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <015401c29f51$754c57a0$dcbe6444@scandinawa1bo6>
Nice solution, but sadly, I can't use it, because the script I need to fopen
is not the default script on the host domain's docroot:
$fp = fsockopen("www3.brinkster.com/soa/val/profile/display.asp", 80);
if(!$fp) {
echo "Unable to open\
";
} else {
fputs($fp, "GET / HTTP/1.0\
\
");
$start = time();
socket_set_timeout($fp, 5);
$res = fread($fp, 1000000);
var_dump(socket_get_status($fp));
fclose($fp);
echo $res;
}
?>
This will never open. :(
Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Oktay Altunergil"
To: "NYPHP Talk"
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] fopen have a "setTimeout" feature?
> Might this be what you're looking for?
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stream-set-timeout.php
>
> oktay
>
> On Sun, 08 Dec 2002 14:35:09 -0500
> Phil Powell wrote:
>
> > Can you set something like a "setTimeout" feature in fopen? That is, if
you use fopen to open a URL for "scraping", if that URL's server is down or
doesn't respond in x seconds, can you set a feature to show an error message
or a "friendly" error message indicating such?
> >
> > Thanx
> > Phil
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --- Unsubscribe at http://nyphp.org/list/ ---
>
>
From timward at chessish.com Sun Dec 8 15:10:23 2002
From: timward at chessish.com (Tim Ward)
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 20:10:23 -0000
Subject: [PHP] fopen have a "setTimeout" feature?
References: <004c01c29ef0$893a1560$dcbe6444@scandinawa1bo6>
Message-ID: <000d01c29ef5$d8118c40$78071f3e@tim>
how about something like...
$start = time();
$timeout = 60; // number of seconds to try
while (!$file = fopen("...") && time() < $start + $timeout);
if ($file)
{ // do stuff with file
}
Tim Ward
http://www.chessish.com
mailto:timward at chessish.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Powell
To: ;
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 7:32 PM
Subject: [PHP] fopen have a "setTimeout" feature?
Can you set something like a "setTimeout" feature in fopen? That is, if you
use fopen to open a URL for "scraping", if that URL's server is down or
doesn't respond in x seconds, can you set a feature to show an error message
or a "friendly" error message indicating such?
Thanx
Phil
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From max at idsociety.com Mon Dec 9 10:55:22 2002
From: max at idsociety.com (max goldberg)
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 10:55:22 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
References: <200212062239.gB6Md6O9073991@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <3DF4BCEA.4030108@idsociety.com>
Jon Baer wrote:
> Analysis & Solutions wrote:
>
>
>>On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 05:03:46PM -0500, Jon Baer wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>You know ... this REALLY leads to a better discussion on possible PHP
>>>Certification of some kind
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Bah. Certification can just mean you're good at taking tests. Doesn't
>>necessarily reflect real world smarts, discipline, nor research and
>>hacking skills.
>>
>>A good interview, references and coding examples prove far more than any
>>certification test.
>>
>>
>
> Im gonna partly agree with you. I myself have a few years of JSP, ATG
> Dynamo, [insert your favorite J2EE app server here], but have *yet* to
> land a PHP/MySQL gig (in the middle of a convert project right now), I
> have been so tempted to stay away from certification but without
> employers being EXTREMELY specific on what they are looking for instead
> of jotting down every acronym they have seen in a magazine somewhere,
> what other options do you have?
>
> Its either:
>
> [Business] needs X, Y, Z
> Candidate has done X,Y,Z
> Candidate has never done X,Y,Z but certified to know how to do X,Y,Z.
>
> How diverse and broad is PHP for a project? Extremely, and to me (it
> seems anyway), that if you can SSH ur way into a companies site to do
> work, there should be no questions asked, certification or no
> certification. So im not complaining, good experience makes up for it
> to some degree but I really wonder how many resumes a biz guy is going
> to get these days that all look the same.
>
> - Jon
I'm not sure about you, but having the ability to ssh doesn't really
mean anything to me. I'd say one of the problems with php is that it
is so loose, you don't really have to know anything about 'programming'
to write it. From my experience, as most non-technical management can't
tell the difference between a really skilled coder and someone who can
use words like 'pro-active' and 'methodology'.
I think to truly be qualified you need to understand many things beyond
syntax, which most people don't get. It seems no one even writes code
for high performance and low resource usage any more. Everyone needs
their hand held through the most basic of exercises. I'm not sure if
it's just my opinion and current situation, it just seems like a lot
of people who make a living of programming/scripting web applications
have absolutely no idea what they are doing.
I read a good rant which made a lot of sense to me at
http://m.bacarella.com/papers/secsoft/html/
-max
From fields at surgam.net Mon Dec 9 11:51:22 2002
From: fields at surgam.net (Adam Fields)
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 10:51:22 -0600
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
In-Reply-To: <200212091555.gB9FtMSt096233@parsec.nyphp.org>
References: <200212091555.gB9FtMSt096233@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <20021209165122.GA10787@eye.surgam.net>
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:55:22AM -0500, max goldberg wrote:
[...]
> I think to truly be qualified you need to understand many things beyond
> syntax, which most people don't get. It seems no one even writes code
> for high performance and low resource usage any more. Everyone needs
> their hand held through the most basic of exercises. I'm not sure if
> it's just my opinion and current situation, it just seems like a lot
> of people who make a living of programming/scripting web applications
> have absolutely no idea what they are doing.
You make a number of assertions here, which are not necessarily
related:
1) People write inefficient code.
Yes, that's true. But high-performance/low resource usage isn't always
the best thing. What if making your code highly tuned takes you three
times as long and makes the code completely incomprehensible to anyone
who comes along after you? Like everything else, efficiency is a
trade-off for other things. The problem isn't that people write
inefficient code, it's that they don't know the difference. Much of
"web scripting" is written in a RAD environment and should be written
in such a way that it's fast to code, fast to replace when the
functionality changes, and easy to read. This is not to say that
efficiency should be ignored, but making every last component perform
at its optimum is probably a waste of valuable developer time that
could be better spent on other things (such as writing better comments
and documentation).
2) People don't know what they're doing.
There is a difference between a junior developer and a senior
architect. Similarly, there's a difference between somone who picked
up the PHP-in-24 hours book last week and someone who's deployed
dozens of successful projects. If you're hiring, and you don't know
the difference, your project isn't going to succeed if you're doing
anything remotely complicated. Junior developers have a valuable place
on a development team, but when they're in charge of the development
effort (or solo), it's only natural that their lack of experience is
going to show up in the final product.
> I read a good rant which made a lot of sense to me at
> http://m.bacarella.com/papers/secsoft/html/
There are some good points there, certainly, although most of that is
aimed at admins and systems programmers. A lot of it is just
frustrated ranting that is amusing but not productive.
--
- Adam
-----
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Surgam, Inc. is a technology consulting firm with strong background in
delivering scalable and robust enterprise web and IT applications.
http://www.adamfields.com
From jonbaer at jonbaer.net Mon Dec 9 08:14:59 2002
From: jonbaer at jonbaer.net (Jon Baer)
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 08:14:59 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
References: <200212091555.gB9FtMSt096233@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <3DF49753.3020601@jonbaer.net>
max goldberg wrote:
>I think to truly be qualified you need to understand many things beyond
>syntax, which most people don't get. It seems no one even writes code
>for high performance and low resource usage any more. Everyone needs
>their hand held through the most basic of exercises. I'm not sure if
>it's just my opinion and current situation, it just seems like a lot
>
>
Ive noticed these comments to come from people in their mid-50, early
60's who have spent more than 20 years on C/C++ and have absolutely no
faith in high level languages :-) Just an observation.
But I think you are right, the very LAST thing people ever ask when
designing a web app today is what kind of resources in terms of memory
requirements, scalability, etc ... I think its just a case of the market
place that has turned from taking ur time to secure an app to come in,
deploy tomorrow, fix bugs later if we need you. I don't think its a
case of not knowing what u are doing because today (vs. yesterday) there
are several ways to accomplish one thing, no matter if you are a junior
developer or senior architect. There are things that look pretty and
things that were a late night hack to make it work, but who is to
decide? I dont think much has changed, in fact I got an assignment on
Saturday for a PHP-based quiz for a site launching on Monday, Id like to
think my options were to figure out how well their php.ini was tweeked
or how they are setup but its something accomplished last nite for
peanuts. Id like to think something like a PHP+ certificate would help
get more work.
Thanks for the link, I found it very informative, and enjoy the
discussion.
- Jon
From tommyo at dolemite.org Mon Dec 9 13:10:57 2002
From: tommyo at dolemite.org (Thomas Casey O'Neill)
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 12:10:57 -0600 (CST)
Subject: OT - Open Source Survey
Message-ID:
Hi Everyone!
COLLEGE STUDENT LACKS SLEEP!
I need a huge favor from everyone on the list. I have a project for my
college statistics class and I was hoping that everyone on the list could
take 1 minute to fill out a short 7 question survey about Open Source and
your business. I do not require any of your personal information just
that you answer the simple questions honestly.
Thank you So Much!
FOLLOW THIS LINK:
http://www.imaginativesolutions.net/survey/?list=nycphp
P.S. If you are on multiple lists you might receive this email again. If
you have time to fill it out twice then heck you are a super duper girl or
guy!
Thomas O'Neill
tommyo at dolemite.org
1222 1/2 West 5th
Winona, MN 55987
home: 507-454-2798
mobile: 507-303-9202
From patrick.fee at baesystems.com Mon Dec 9 13:25:07 2002
From: patrick.fee at baesystems.com (Fee, Patrick J)
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 13:25:07 -0500
Subject: Apache, MySQL, PHP|Perl on NetWare - Webinar! #
Message-ID:
> Note the first paragraph in the web seminar below ...
>
> "introduces the *new* web application serving environment[...]
> Netware ' AMP ' [...]the combination of Apache, MySQL, and PHP|PERL..."
>
> How old is AMP or LAMP technology?
>
> Thought you'd enjoy a chuckle know you were all using a "new"
> environment ... and the knowledge that a rather stable web development
> environment is now available on Novell .
>
> Patrick J. Fee
> Web & Database Group Manager
> BAE SYSTEMS
> 600 Maryland Ave. SW Suite 600
> Washington D.C. 20024
> Patrick.Fee at BAESYSTEMS.com
> Tel: (202) 548-3759
> Fax: (202) 608-5970
>
>
>
>
> # Apache, MySQL, PHP|Perl on NetWare - Webinar! #
>
> Date: December 17
> Time: 2:00 pm EDT, 11:00 am PDT
> Duration: 1 hour
> Fee: None
>
> This webinar introduces the new web application serving environment
> that
> will be included as part of Nakoma, the next major release of
> NetWare.
> Informally known as NetWare "AMP", the combination of Apache, MySQL,
> and
> PHP|PERL, provides a powerful open source environment for creating
> and
> hosting Web-based solutions atop a rock-solid, business-class NOS:
> NetWare!
>
> You'll see demonstrations of development interfaces and open source
> applications that run on the NetWare AMP platform without
> modification.
> We will also cover performance metrics and provide basic benchmarks
> of the
> NetWare AMP platform.
>
> And if that isn't cool enough for you, we will also be drawing for a
> nice
> door prize -- so see you there!
>
> Get all the webinar details and register at
>
> http://register.novell.com/login/index.cfm?action=prelogin&fuse=event&id=6
> 550&event_id=6550&lcode=enu
>
>
>
>
From brent at landover.com Mon Dec 9 13:25:18 2002
From: brent at landover.com (Brent Baisley)
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 13:25:18 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] You vs The Other Guy
In-Reply-To: <200212062354.gB6Ns6St074462@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <91D46D7C-0BA3-11D7-9F72-0050E4C5CF70@landover.com>
I have worked for a technical recruiting (aka headhunter) company for
the past three years and I can backup the statement below. Also, you
can't always count on a technical person seeing the resume and
"understanding" what you have done. At larger firms resumes go through
Human Resources first as a filter. To them, someone with JDBC, EJB, JSP,
and J2EE doesn't know Java. But someone with Javascript does. Someone
with awk, csh, zsh, and grep doesn't know how to write a shell script.
If they know Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and IRIX they don't know Unix. Etc,
etc, etc,.
It's not easy to write a resume that spells out everything for a
non-technical person, yet keeps a technical person from becoming bored
and still has the required content presented concisely. Really the only
common ground between human resources and a technical manager is that
neither wants to read a resume longer than two pages. So where do you
put all the buzzwords for the search engine? Put a "Key Words" section
at the bottom of your resume and forget about the "References available
upon request", of course they are.
It's a good idea to keep multiple "versions" of your resume that cater
to different reviewers and skill sets.
On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 06:54 PM, The Rain Maker wrote:
> Now, as the person sitting behind the desk. I can say most definitely,
> you're resume is nothing more than a bullet list of accomplishments. If
> it's more than two page, 99% chance I won't read it (if it's four or
> more, it won't even get to my desk for review). What *I* want to see on
> a resume is a list of skills, who you worked for and when.
--
Brent Baisley
Systems Architect
Landover Associates, Inc.
Search & Advisory Services for Advanced Technology Environments
p: 212.759.6400/800.759.0577
From max at idsociety.com Mon Dec 9 14:02:51 2002
From: max at idsociety.com (max goldberg)
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:02:51 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
References: <200212091651.gB9GpZSt096520@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <3DF4E8DB.2070504@idsociety.com>
Well I think you said what I was trying to say a bit better.
I'm not really hard on people for using a " on a static string
rather than a ', but I would like to know they actually know
the difference in how they are parsed. I just feel like more senior
developers do write better code, not only does it work, but it takes
into account a great deal of future expansion, it is usually well
documented and there is usually a lot of good forethought put into it.
A long while ago at a job I was forced into a bunch of standards by the
lead developer, which at the time I hated. I didn't see any use for them
until I got a new job, and was forced to fix an amazing amount of really
unorganized hacks. At this point I fully understood the need for fully
commented, peer evaluated code that fit a style guide. Also at this job
the lead developer ignored a good amount of my questions, causing me to
seek out the answer on my own, via documentation or trial and error.
I think it helped me greatly. I wish some of the people I worked with
had the initiative to teach themselves some things without needing to
have someone walk them through the most basic parse errors.
I don't think that document has many uses from a professional
standpoint, but I did understand his frustration and I did find the
humor in it, regardless of if I agree with all of his points. =)
-max
Adam Fields wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:55:22AM -0500, max goldberg wrote:
> [...]
>
>>I think to truly be qualified you need to understand many things beyond
>>syntax, which most people don't get. It seems no one even writes code
>>for high performance and low resource usage any more. Everyone needs
>>their hand held through the most basic of exercises. I'm not sure if
>>it's just my opinion and current situation, it just seems like a lot
>>of people who make a living of programming/scripting web applications
>>have absolutely no idea what they are doing.
>
>
> You make a number of assertions here, which are not necessarily
> related:
>
> 1) People write inefficient code.
>
> Yes, that's true. But high-performance/low resource usage isn't always
> the best thing. What if making your code highly tuned takes you three
> times as long and makes the code completely incomprehensible to anyone
> who comes along after you? Like everything else, efficiency is a
> trade-off for other things. The problem isn't that people write
> inefficient code, it's that they don't know the difference. Much of
> "web scripting" is written in a RAD environment and should be written
> in such a way that it's fast to code, fast to replace when the
> functionality changes, and easy to read. This is not to say that
> efficiency should be ignored, but making every last component perform
> at its optimum is probably a waste of valuable developer time that
> could be better spent on other things (such as writing better comments
> and documentation).
>
> 2) People don't know what they're doing.
>
> There is a difference between a junior developer and a senior
> architect. Similarly, there's a difference between somone who picked
> up the PHP-in-24 hours book last week and someone who's deployed
> dozens of successful projects. If you're hiring, and you don't know
> the difference, your project isn't going to succeed if you're doing
> anything remotely complicated. Junior developers have a valuable place
> on a development team, but when they're in charge of the development
> effort (or solo), it's only natural that their lack of experience is
> going to show up in the final product.
>
>
>>I read a good rant which made a lot of sense to me at
>>http://m.bacarella.com/papers/secsoft/html/
>
>
> There are some good points there, certainly, although most of that is
> aimed at admins and systems programmers. A lot of it is just
> frustrated ranting that is amusing but not productive.
>
From max at idsociety.com Mon Dec 9 14:14:22 2002
From: max at idsociety.com (max goldberg)
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 14:14:22 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
References: <200212091751.gB9HptSt096823@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <3DF4EB8E.5070406@idsociety.com>
I'm 20. heh.
My frustration has come up due to dealing with a large amount of
developers that have no idea what they are doing. For instance, in a
content management system, there was a text area where the client could
enter in text, to be shown over the web. Instead of converting a line
break character to an html line break tag on insert of the text, it is
done on every page view. This is just a miniscule piece of the code I
have been forced to fix over the last 6 months. People who refuse to use
CVS or anything that doesn?t have a gui. Refuse to learn how to learn
how to use FTP. It's the small things, they add up quickly.
I think certification could be a good tool, but someone else made a very
valid point, PHP alone isn't really a challenge, but you would need to
quiz on SQL/HTML etc. It would be kind of like having JavaScript
certification without mentioning the DOM, it's something else entirely.
-max
Jon Baer wrote:
> max goldberg wrote:
>
>
>>I think to truly be qualified you need to understand many things beyond
>>syntax, which most people don't get. It seems no one even writes code
>>for high performance and low resource usage any more. Everyone needs
>>their hand held through the most basic of exercises. I'm not sure if
>>it's just my opinion and current situation, it just seems like a lot
>>
>>
>
> Ive noticed these comments to come from people in their mid-50, early
> 60's who have spent more than 20 years on C/C++ and have absolutely no
> faith in high level languages :-) Just an observation.
>
> But I think you are right, the very LAST thing people ever ask when
> designing a web app today is what kind of resources in terms of memory
> requirements, scalability, etc ... I think its just a case of the market
> place that has turned from taking ur time to secure an app to come in,
> deploy tomorrow, fix bugs later if we need you. I don't think its a
> case of not knowing what u are doing because today (vs. yesterday) there
> are several ways to accomplish one thing, no matter if you are a junior
> developer or senior architect. There are things that look pretty and
> things that were a late night hack to make it work, but who is to
> decide? I dont think much has changed, in fact I got an assignment on
> Saturday for a PHP-based quiz for a site launching on Monday, Id like to
> think my options were to figure out how well their php.ini was tweeked
> or how they are setup but its something accomplished last nite for
> peanuts. Id like to think something like a PHP+ certificate would help
> get more work.
>
> Thanks for the link, I found it very informative, and enjoy the
> discussion.
>
> - Jon
>
>
>
> --- Unsubscribe at http://nyphp.org/list/ ---
>
>
From sailer at bnl.gov Mon Dec 9 15:17:29 2002
From: sailer at bnl.gov (Timothy P Sailer)
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:17:29 -0500
Subject: Form names
Message-ID: <20021209201729.GA6098@bnl.gov>
I've been asked to post process a canned HTML screen that has
multiple named forms on it. I'm pulling a complete blank on
how to get the name of the form the submit button was clicked on.
Isn't this an HTML variable???
Tim
--
Tim Sailer
Application Services
Information Technology Division
Brookhaven National Laboratory (631) 344-3001
From kayraotaner at yahoo.com Mon Dec 9 15:26:35 2002
From: kayraotaner at yahoo.com (Kayra Otaner)
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 12:26:35 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
In-Reply-To: <200212091751.gB9HptSt096823@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <20021209202635.42076.qmail@web41011.mail.yahoo.com>
Hi,
My personal opinion is 'real Open Source developers doesn't need cert'. Just like any other
issues, OSS philosophy developed its own unique 'certification way' by means of 'pet projects'.
Since most of the OSS developers already developing some sort of 'pet projects' for their own,
this indicates what level of knowledge they have. Certifications are for developers who don't have
any reference sites or apps to show, and/or doesn't have education background related to the field
at all. If you're talented and know how to express yourself, guy sitting accross the table on an
inverview will going to notice your talent. If they can't notice your capabilities, you don't even
need to show a certification :-))
I suggest recruitters to look for the ones with pet projects instead of certification.
PS: I don't have pet project(I can't even call it pet project)
Best
Kayra Otaner
--- Jon Baer wrote:
> max goldberg wrote:
>
> >I think to truly be qualified you need to understand many things beyond
> >syntax, which most people don't get. It seems no one even writes code
> >for high performance and low resource usage any more. Everyone needs
> >their hand held through the most basic of exercises. I'm not sure if
> >it's just my opinion and current situation, it just seems like a lot
> >
> >
> Ive noticed these comments to come from people in their mid-50, early
> 60's who have spent more than 20 years on C/C++ and have absolutely no
> faith in high level languages :-) Just an observation.
>
> But I think you are right, the very LAST thing people ever ask when
> designing a web app today is what kind of resources in terms of memory
> requirements, scalability, etc ... I think its just a case of the market
> place that has turned from taking ur time to secure an app to come in,
> deploy tomorrow, fix bugs later if we need you. I don't think its a
> case of not knowing what u are doing because today (vs. yesterday) there
> are several ways to accomplish one thing, no matter if you are a junior
> developer or senior architect. There are things that look pretty and
> things that were a late night hack to make it work, but who is to
> decide? I dont think much has changed, in fact I got an assignment on
> Saturday for a PHP-based quiz for a site launching on Monday, Id like to
> think my options were to figure out how well their php.ini was tweeked
> or how they are setup but its something accomplished last nite for
> peanuts. Id like to think something like a PHP+ certificate would help
> get more work.
>
> Thanks for the link, I found it very informative, and enjoy the
> discussion.
>
> - Jon
>
>
>
> --- Unsubscribe at http://nyphp.org/list/ ---
>
>
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From bruce at mtiglobal.com Tue Dec 10 08:04:03 2002
From: bruce at mtiglobal.com (bruce at mtiglobal.com)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 05:04:03 -0800 (CST)
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
In-Reply-To: <200212092026.gB9KQfSt097709@parsec.nyphp.org>
References: <200212092026.gB9KQfSt097709@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <7196.65.112.109.66.1039467843.squirrel@taipei.mtiglobal.com>
Hi,
As for cert tests, I'd probably do terrible. I can never remember the
specific syntax. But I can remember "how" to do something, or at least I
can figure out an approach to try. Then I look at the object model to see
the specific syntax for that event, method, etc. That is think is more
important - The Logic. How does everything tie in together. Where should
things be done -- client side, server side, business-logic-tier, etc.
As for junior developers not knowing everything . . . isn't that why they
are "junior" level?
Experience comes from experience! Two people in the same situation will
take the experience differently. One will sit around whining and say "I
never learned that . . . you don't pay me enough." and another one will
spend the time to figure it out, looking through books or API's online, or
posting questions on forums.
My $0.04 worth ($0.02 invested in dotcoms that went to $5.00 then back
down to $0.04!!!)
- Bruce
> Hi,
>
> My personal opinion is 'real Open Source developers doesn't need cert'.
> Just like any other issues, OSS philosophy developed its own unique
> 'certification way' by means of 'pet projects'. Since most of the OSS
> developers already developing some sort of 'pet projects' for their own,
> this indicates what level of knowledge they have. Certifications are for
> developers who don't have any reference sites or apps to show, and/or
> doesn't have education background related to the field at all. If you're
> talented and know how to express yourself, guy sitting accross the table
> on an inverview will going to notice your talent. If they can't notice
> your capabilities, you don't even need to show a certification :-))
> I suggest recruitters to look for the ones with pet projects instead of
> certification.
>
> PS: I don't have pet project(I can't even call it pet project)
>
> Best
>
>
> Kayra Otaner
>
>
> --- Jon Baer wrote:
>> max goldberg wrote:
>>
>> >I think to truly be qualified you need to understand many things
>> beyond syntax, which most people don't get. It seems no one even
>> writes code for high performance and low resource usage any more.
>> Everyone needs their hand held through the most basic of exercises.
>> I'm not sure if it's just my opinion and current situation, it just
>> seems like a lot
>> >
>> >
>> Ive noticed these comments to come from people in their mid-50, early
>> 60's who have spent more than 20 years on C/C++ and have absolutely no
>> faith in high level languages :-) Just an observation.
>>
>> But I think you are right, the very LAST thing people ever ask when
>> designing a web app today is what kind of resources in terms of memory
>> requirements, scalability, etc ... I think its just a case of the
>> market place that has turned from taking ur time to secure an app to
>> come in, deploy tomorrow, fix bugs later if we need you. I don't
>> think its a case of not knowing what u are doing because today (vs.
>> yesterday) there are several ways to accomplish one thing, no matter
>> if you are a junior developer or senior architect. There are things
>> that look pretty and things that were a late night hack to make it
>> work, but who is to decide? I dont think much has changed, in fact I
>> got an assignment on Saturday for a PHP-based quiz for a site
>> launching on Monday, Id like to think my options were to figure out
>> how well their php.ini was tweeked or how they are setup but its
>> something accomplished last nite for peanuts. Id like to think
>> something like a PHP+ certificate would help get more work.
>>
>> Thanks for the link, I found it very informative, and enjoy the
>> discussion.
>>
>> - Jon
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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From amiller at hollywood101.com Mon Dec 9 16:23:34 2002
From: amiller at hollywood101.com (Alan T. Miller)
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 14:23:34 -0700
Subject: [nycphp-talk] [JOB] PT Junior Developer, Manhattan
References: <200212092026.gB9KQfSt097709@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <00b801c29fc9$5a858d60$57c47643@webdev>
> Certifications are for developers who don't have
> any reference sites or apps to show, and/or doesn't have education
background related to the field
> at all.
This is not true. I worked for a major company that would not even consider
you for an interview unless you had passed the Brainbench PHP certification
test at the master level. In fact they hired directly off of this test. They
needed three developers, and surprise the three developers they hired just
happen to have the top three scores on this test for the state. To this
hiring manager, nothing else mattered but the score on this particular test.
Luckily for me, I was one of those top three in my state. But this is beside
the point, I did have plenty of work to show, both online and submitted to
them, it simply did not matter without a "Master" level score on this test,
they refused to even interview me until I took the test even after seeing
very high quality code, which leads me to your next point.
> If you're talented and know how to express yourself, guy sitting accross
the table on an
> inverview will going to notice your talent. If they can't notice your
capabilities, you don't even
> need to show a certification :-))
This is all fine and dandy as long as you know how to get to the right
person (you have inside connections etc., you have done an exceptional job
at networking and on and on) and you actually get to sit down across the
table from them. The problem though, is that much like the above example,
you never get to sit down across the table from the guy that matters. Every
job that I have made it that far, I have been given an offer. The problem is
getting to the right person and getting that opportunity to sit across the
table.
All too often resumes are screened out because they do not have a particular
certification etc., and then you never get that chance to actually impress a
person with what matters, yourself. This in my mind is the real issue
concerning certifications. It has nothing to do with wether you know a
particular technology, it is just an unfortunate thing you have to deal with
to get passed the ignorance that so often plagues the human resources dept.
Just my 2 cents.
Alan
> I suggest recruitters to look for the ones with pet projects instead of
certification.
>
> PS: I don't have pet project(I can't even call it pet project)
>
> Best
>
>
> Kayra Otaner
>
>
> --- Jon Baer wrote:
> > max goldberg wrote:
> >
> > >I think to truly be qualified you need to understand many things beyond
> > >syntax, which most people don't get. It seems no one even writes code
> > >for high performance and low resource usage any more. Everyone needs
> > >their hand held through the most basic of exercises. I'm not sure if
> > >it's just my opinion and current situation, it just seems like a lot
> > >
> > >
> > Ive noticed these comments to come from people in their mid-50, early
> > 60's who have spent more than 20 years on C/C++ and have absolutely no
> > faith in high level languages :-) Just an observation.
> >
> > But I think you are right, the very LAST thing people ever ask when
> > designing a web app today is what kind of resources in terms of memory
> > requirements, scalability, etc ... I think its just a case of the market
> > place that has turned from taking ur time to secure an app to come in,
> > deploy tomorrow, fix bugs later if we need you. I don't think its a
> > case of not knowing what u are doing because today (vs. yesterday) there
> > are several ways to accomplish one thing, no matter if you are a junior
> > developer or senior architect. There are things that look pretty and
> > things that were a late night hack to make it work, but who is to
> > decide? I dont think much has changed, in fact I got an assignment on
> > Saturday for a PHP-based quiz for a site launching on Monday, Id like to
> > think my options were to figure out how well their php.ini was tweeked
> > or how they are setup but its something accomplished last nite for
> > peanuts. Id like to think something like a PHP+ certificate would help
> > get more work.
> >
> > Thanks for the link, I found it very informative, and enjoy the
> > discussion.
> >
> > - Jon
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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From peter at panvox.net Mon Dec 9 17:30:13 2002
From: peter at panvox.net (Peter Simard)
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 17:30:13 -0500
Subject: Application Design
Message-ID: <119128792718.20021209173013@panvox.net>
5:26 PM
Monday
12/9/2002
Happy Holidays everyone,
Does anyone have any Application Design
texts/primers/white-papers etc they can recommend?
As my projects become more ambitious I'm definitely in need of a
framework of some sort.
Thanks in advance,
Pete
--
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908.630.9411
mailto:peter at panvox.net
From danielc at analysisandsolutions.com Mon Dec 9 18:33:48 2002
From: danielc at analysisandsolutions.com (Analysis & Solutions)
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 18:33:48 -0500
Subject: [nycphp-talk] Form names
In-Reply-To: <200212092022.gB9KMoSt097686@parsec.nyphp.org>
References: <200212092022.gB9KMoSt097686@parsec.nyphp.org>
Message-ID: <20021209233347.GA17591@panix.com>
Hey Tim:
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 03:22:50PM -0500, Timothy P Sailer wrote:
>
> I've been asked to post process a canned HTML screen that has
> multiple named forms on it. I'm pulling a complete blank on
> how to get the name of the form the submit button was clicked on.
> Isn't this an HTML variable???
No. The option I'd use is to use different values for the submit buttons.
For example...
form for adding record...
form for updating record...
Similarly, you can add hidden form elements.
Oh, and of course, you can have the various forms be submitted to
different scripts.
Or... :) you can add a query string to the form's action...