Only allow up to 1 error per 3 letters in the correct word, rounding
up. For example, a 10-letter word can have up to 4 errors. They can be anywhere
in the word.
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From: John Nichel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 5:31 AM
To: PHP Mailing List
On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 09:19, Jochem Maas wrote:
> Ray Hauge wrote:
> > On Thursday 20 July 2006 07:23, John Nichel wrote:
> >> Yeah, one of my earliest thoughts on this was to have them write
> >> something simple like connecting to a db, selecting multiple rows,
> >> parsing our the result, and di
Ray Hauge wrote:
>
> Don't forget making it secure. Here is one of my questions people can use if
> they like. Feel free to re-word it. I'm a programmer, not a writer ;)
>
> What change(s) would you make to the following code to make it more secure?
>
> $id = $_GET['id'];
> mysql_query(“DELE
Ray Hauge wrote:
> On Thursday 20 July 2006 07:23, John Nichel wrote:
>> Yeah, one of my earliest thoughts on this was to have them write
>> something simple like connecting to a db, selecting multiple rows,
>> parsing our the result, and displaying it in some fashion.
>
> Don't forget making it s
On Thursday 20 July 2006 07:23, John Nichel wrote:
> Yeah, one of my earliest thoughts on this was to have them write
> something simple like connecting to a db, selecting multiple rows,
> parsing our the result, and displaying it in some fashion.
Don't forget making it secure. Here is one of my
John Nichel wrote:
What does $_POST['x'] mean?
What does $ in front of a string of chars without quotes mean?
That does register globals mean?
Is it possible to run php as a cgi script?
When it is necessary to use 'var' in php
code?
I would probably agree that a problem would be better. Here'
Finner, Doug wrote:
My advice, give the candidates problems and see how they solve them.
Even if they don't finish, you get an idea of how they think.
tedd
I like this idea!
Do you expect them to be able to work with code written by others? If
so, hand them some of your existing code (goo
Please reply to the list.
jekillen wrote:
On Jul 19, 2006, at 8:31 AM, John Nichel wrote:
We're looking to hire an entry level php programmer here, and I've
been tasked with writing the test to evaluate the potential
candidates. Being the lazy guy that I am, I naturally turned to Google
to
To refine that a bit, you may want to give them some code that has
been intentionally broken (simple things for the entry level
position, such as missing semicolons or curly braces etc) and watch
to see how they go about discovering the parse errors. To me, it
would be better to hire someon
>>My advice, give the candidates problems and see how they solve them.
Even if they don't finish, you get an idea of how they think.
>>tedd
I like this idea!
Do you expect them to be able to work with code written by others? If
so, hand them some of your existing code (good examples and not so
At 11:31 AM -0400 7/19/06, John Nichel wrote:
>We're looking to hire an entry level php programmer here, and I've been tasked
>with writing the test to evaluate the potential candidates. Being the lazy guy
>that I am, I naturally turned to Google to see if I could find some tests that
>I could u
At 12:12 PM -0400 7/19/06, John Nichel wrote:
>The worst part of it is, I'm going to have to be involved in the interview
>process, and I'm *not* a people person. ;)
Really, who would have guessed that? ;)
tedd
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On 7/19/06, KermodeBear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone have any links/resources for a
> basic php knowledge test? If not, I'll have to
> write one from scratch myself, and mess up the
> rest of my day of goofing off/sleeping.
It wouldn't hurt to pick up one of those Zend PHP Certific
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 11:12, John Nichel wrote:
> Yeah, reading the writing on the wall, I think I'm just going to have to
> suck it up, and write it. The worst part of it is, I'm going to have to
> be involved in the interview process, and I'm *not* a people person. ;)
>
> I think I'll go wi
Ray Hauge wrote:
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 10:31, John Nichel wrote:
We're looking to hire an entry level php programmer here, and I've been
tasked with writing the test to evaluate the potential candidates.
Being the lazy guy that I am, I naturally turned to Google to see if I
could find some t
Jim Moseby wrote:
STFW! RTFM!! STFA!! STFU!!
That totally goes against my being lazy. Hell, I didn't get to where I
am today by *not* exploiting the 'little people' :-p
--
John C. Nichel IV
Programmer/System Admin (ÜberGeek)
Dot Com Holdings of Buffalo
716.856.9675
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Does anyone have any links/resources for a
> basic php knowledge test? If not, I'll have to
> write one from scratch myself, and mess up the
> rest of my day of goofing off/sleeping.
It wouldn't hurt to pick up one of those Zend PHP Certification study guides
and pull some things from there.
>
> We're looking to hire an entry level php programmer here, and
> I've been
> tasked with writing the test to evaluate the potential candidates.
> Being the lazy guy that I am, I naturally turned to Google to
> see if I
> could find some tests that I could use. After clicking thru
> many
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 10:31, John Nichel wrote:
> We're looking to hire an entry level php programmer here, and I've been
> tasked with writing the test to evaluate the potential candidates.
> Being the lazy guy that I am, I naturally turned to Google to see if I
> could find some tests that I
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