Archive for May, 2007

Google Gears Caching of WordPress in PHP

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I was instantly fascinated by Google Gears so I had to immediately try out the sample code that you can download. The tutorial on the website gives a simple example of how to cache a few files using the [...]

31May2007 | Nick Halstead | 41 comments | Continued

Zend Framework RC1 and Zend ACL usage

Yesterday RC1 of Zend Framework was released. I have been working away using it for several months and I have tried to give back small snippets of code as I went along. I had to do some work on my class that extends the Zend ACL and it reminded me how I like to approach [...]

30May2007 | Nick Halstead | 31 comments | Continued

Virtual Appliance use within Development

Since I received my new server last week I have been implementing my strategy for the use of Virtual Appliances in my development setup. The basic plan is to not install anything directly on the server apart from VMware Server which will be running the virtual appliances.
So firstly what is a Virtual appliance? the [...]

29May2007 | Nick Halstead | 6 comments | Continued

Favorite.me one month (and it’s all over)

It has been exactly one month since I launched favorite.me and I have had 107 users and over 2000 favorites given out since it started. Because favorite exchanges have fallen out of favor I have decided to close down the site. I will for at least 2 months leave the front page which I have [...]

27May2007 | Nick Halstead | 3 comments | Continued

It’s official ‘I am a supreme nerd god’

I was reading Bill Roth’s Blog and it mentioned that he was competing with a friend over getting the best Nerd score on NerdTests.com. Although he was sceptical on what score he could get being a manager he managed a very respectable 95%.
So being a nerd at heart I thought I would try it [...]

25May2007 | Nick Halstead | 1 comment | Continued

PHP Interview questions from YAHOO

A friend recently got some pre-interview questions from YAHOO for a PHP job. Following up my previous post about programmer questions I thought I would post them to give people examples of what a large corporation like YAHOO asks.
1. Which of the following will not add john to the users array?

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23May2007 | Nick Halstead | 117 comments | Continued
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