Archive for July, 2007

PHP Competition Results - Runners up

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Finally we have a result, it has taken weeks of judging and lots of hardwork. The scores are ready and today I will first announce the runners up from the Top 6. I will then tomorrow announce the 3rd […]

18Jul2007 | Nick Halstead | 9 comments | Continued

Manager Mathematics

I had my first taste of management when I worked at Argonaut (long time ago) and because Jez San (the owner) believed in promoting from within the company he felt that it would be a good idea to get in a management trainer to help us with the basics. His name was Patrick (no idea […]

16Jul2007 | Nick Halstead | 2 comments | Continued

PHP 4 to be discontinued from December

Although this has been discussed for a while on the PHP internals list it has now been made public that PHP 4 will not have any further releases from december. Here is the annoucement from the PHP.NET website.
Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it […]

13Jul2007 | Nick Halstead | 10 comments | Continued

Quick Programming Poll: Self Taught VS College Taught

I have been really busy this week with development and replying to people after the response from What Motivates Programmers? which has been amazing. Although as I stated in the comments I was partly peeved that it gave Tim Bryce the amount of coverage it did but it seems he got roundly flamed for his […]

13Jul2007 | Nick Halstead | 11 comments | Continued

What motivates programmers?

I will start with a question, if you have a spare £400 in your development budget do you A) Reward your star programmer with a £400 bonus or B) Buy him a 24 Inch 1920×1200 LCD screen?
If you answered ‘A’ then you need to read on. If you answered ‘B’ then you understand what motivates […]

11Jul2007 | Nick Halstead | 129 comments | Continued

Competition Update

The judging of the PHP competition is taking a lot longer than I first thought! I started with 40+ entries which I reduced down by trying them one by one (very slow!) some of them quickly stood out and I got the list down to 12 entries. At this stage most got removed because of […]

10Jul2007 | Nick Halstead | 24 comments | Continued
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