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PHPClasses.org Blog: PHP in Arabic
by Chris Cornutt November 17, 2009 @ 13:09:52
In this latest post from the PHPClasses.org blog, Manuel Lemos looks at a class designed specifically for working with Arabic data in PHP - Ar-PHP - and interviews its lead developer, Khaled Al-Shamaa.
Arabic is a language spoken in many countries. The number of PHP developers from countries that use the Arabic language has been growing a lot. Currently it represents almost 2% of the users that access the PHPClasses site. The Arabic language writing direction is from right to left. It requires the use of a non-Latin character set. These facts raise special challenges to developers willing to build sites with Arabic text. Khaled Al-Shamaa, a PHP developer from Syria has written a library of classes named Ar-PHP. It address many of the challenges of building Arabic sites in PHP.
They talk about who Khaled is, look at a general overview of the project, what kinds of things are in the future for the library and what kind of difference PHP6 will make.
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Brandon Savage's Blog: PHP Interview Questions And Answers
by Chris Cornutt November 16, 2009 @ 09:46:06
Following some of his recent experience in finding a new source of employment, Brandon Savage has shared some of the common questions he was given during his search for a PHP development position.
There are a large number of PHPers looking for jobs right now. After having just gone through the process myself, I wanted to put together some of the most common PHP interview questions. These questions are all non-technical, but do represent the soft side of PHP interviewing. I cannot help you if you don't have the technical skills to answer the technical questions, but answering these questions correctly is often the key to making or breaking your chances with an interviewer who otherwise has fine technical candidates.
Questions he was asked included "How did you get into PHP?", "Where do you ultimately want to be in life?" and the more random "How many gas stations are there in Los Angeles?". For each, Brandon recommends a few tips on dealing with them and includes some possible tactics on answering.
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Brandon Savage's Blog: Why Coding Tests Are A Bad Interview Technique
by Chris Cornutt November 02, 2009 @ 19:59:47
Brandon Savage has a suggestion for those interviewing developers for positions at their company - forget the coding test.
One thing I've noticed in hunting for a job recently is the number of companies that insist that you write them a code sample to spec. Not just any code sample, but a fully functional, complete application. This is absurd, for several reasons.
He suggests that, while submitting example code or taking a test as a part of the interview process can be a "first line" to be sure the person knows the language, they shouldn't be considered useful much beyond that. He likens it to people in other trades (like a plumber or electrician) to do their job before they can do their job...for you. Brandon suggests that the real key to a developer - how well they can learn - just can't be measured by a test like this.
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PHPClasses.org Blog: Microsoft promotes the careers of PHP professionals
by Chris Cornutt September 30, 2009 @ 11:46:05
On the PHPClasses.org blog today Manuel Lemos has posted a new entry with an interview from a Microsoft representative (Galileu Vieira) about their latest effort to help out the web development market - the WebsiteSpark program.
The good news is that Microsoft just launched a new initiative named WebsiteSpark. It aims to promote the careers of PHP and other Web professionals in general that are interested in specializing in the Microsoft technologies. Therefore I invited Galileu Vieira , a manager of the Microsoft subsidiary in Brazil, to give an interview and clarify what is this initiative and how the PHP professionals may benefit from it.
They talk about the goals of the project, what's included in the startup package Microsoft would provide, the training available and where you can get more information.
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Stefan Koopmanschap's Blog: Interviewed by DevExp.eu
by Chris Cornutt September 23, 2009 @ 07:58:00
Stefan Koopmanschap has pointed out an interview the DevExp.eu website recently did with him as a member of the PHP and general Open Source communities.
Stefan has a wide history in Open Source, having been Support Team Leader for phpBB, documentation translator for Zend Framework and community manager, plugin developer and maintainer plus various other things for symfony.
Topics mentioned in the interview include Stefan's current projects, how he learned what he has about software development, what kind of hobbies or interests he has and a few "quick answer" questions with Stefan's responses in five words or less.
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