Archive for June, 2007

Why Recruitment Agencies have Append only Databases

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I wanted to cover an interesting aspect of recruitment agencies. They are unique in the world in that they have databases that are ‘append only’. What do I mean? Well after I recruited a programmer several years back he […]

17Jun2007 | Nick Halstead | 4 comments | Continued

PHP Programming Contest Promotion

The nice people over at PHPDeveloper.org have been kind enough to help promote the PHP competition I am running. If you want to help promote the competition please use this logo and link it to http://blog.assembleron.com/2007/06/14/php-programming-contest-win-zend-studio/.
We have had over 100 downloads of the sample words.txt file for the contest so far so!
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Just a quick […]

15Jun2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

PHP Programming Contest - Win Zend Studio

How would you like a shiny copy of Zend Studio of your own? Well the nice people over at Zend have given me a Zend Studio Professional license to give away as part of a programming contest.
It has been a lot harder than I thought to come up with a fair programming challenge that would […]

14Jun2007 | Nick Halstead | 46 comments | Continued

Programming and Managing - Can you do both?

I have been getting quite a few emails recently asking me to post about certain topics. So today I start answering them.
Brendan Barber asks “I am a software development manager for a global recruitment firm. I was wondering if you have any blogs about how to juggle team leadership / management with programming tasks. I […]

8Jun2007 | Nick Halstead | 8 comments | Continued

Uses of Pseudo Code in Development

While working on my next article on interviewing programmers I made several mentions to the use of Pseudo code. I started detailing out the uses of Pseudo code and ended up creating a separate post dedicated to the subject. Hopefully this guide will be useful in relation to programmer interviewing but also for general reference […]

3Jun2007 | Nick Halstead | 13 comments | Continued

The Good and Bad of technical support

I recently had two very contrasting experiences with technical support from two very different companies.
RSYNC.NET

You have got to love those guys over at rsync.net & johncompanies. They recently sent me an email notifying me that they had added subversion support to their geo-redundant backup facilities. I wanted to see if I could get things up […]

1Jun2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued
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