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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 [...]

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 | 97 comments | Continued

links for 19-05-2007

It has been a quiet couple of days for development news, so these are my top picks from the last week.
A really good top 10 of the things clients say to web agencies. My favorite being “why am I not #1 in Google“.
Nightmare web design clients

A fantastic rant about Digg and Reddit (and a few [...]

19May2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Things I need but don’t know if they exist

I have recently noticed that my online existence could be greatly improved with a few simple tools (well I think they are simple.) Here is a list of things that would make my life easier.
Bookmark Search Plug-in (Firefox) That gives you the Ability to quickly search within my bookmarks. It would Firstly search within the [...]

17May2007 | Nick Halstead | 5 comments | Continued

Social networking experiment using Technorati API

I have today finished a mini-project that I started after having a minor brainwave. I had seen a lot of blogs recently being used to swap favorites, most notably of which was the experiment by DOSH DOSH. This required its users to add Dosh to their favorites, then post a comment saying they had done [...]

27Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 10 comments | Continued

Blog Etiquette

I have been busy working today (yes I know its sunday) but felt I had to take timeout to raise the issue of Blog Etiquette. I posted an article about ‘RDBM vs Filesystem‘ which got a lot of attention from DZONE (about 2000 unique visitors at last count, which is a lot for me.) and [...]

22Apr2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued
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