Comments for Lively Web Design - Blog http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:43:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on My Specific Hot Buttons For New Employment by Scott Lively http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/2011/02/my-specific-hot-buttons-for-new-employment/#comment-42405 Scott Lively Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:43:13 +0000 http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/?p=694#comment-42405 @Chip As I mentioned in my previous post, I think good recruiters can add more information to an introductory email while remaining vague enough to attract attention to a larger pool of candidates. The key is finding the right balance.

I’m sure it’s like a bell curve where the optimum amount of information attracts the largest amount of interest. If you start adding too much information you start to lose interest from candidates. Likewise, if you don’t provide enough information you lose interest as well because the email simply looks like spam.

This is great feedback and thanks for taking the time to comment.

]]> Comment on My Specific Hot Buttons For New Employment by Chip Cameron http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/2011/02/my-specific-hot-buttons-for-new-employment/#comment-42384 Chip Cameron Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:01:37 +0000 http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/?p=694#comment-42384 After 12 years I have learned that there are two primary reasons why is not in a recruiter’s best interest to be specific from the initial contact. These reasons include:

1. A quality recruiter will have a firm understanding of the performance objectives for a given opportunity and will screen based upon those objectives. When an interested candidate knows these objectives up front screening becomes substantially more difficult.

2. Candidates make quick assessments based upon limited information. Many times a candidate will preclude themselves from an ideal opportunity as a result of a single word, sentence, early comp number, etc without fully understanding the scope and flexibility of a particular opportunity – not to mention the culture and growth opportunity within the company.

2. Some candidates think that they can save a company money by circumventing the recruiter. A quality recruiter will have an established relationship with the client and will ensure that a qualified candidates resume not only gets seen by a hiring manager but is actively managed throughout the process. Additionally they will provide important information and tips about the opportunity, hiring manager(s), and company during the entire hiring process.

I appreciate your time in putting this information together!

Chip Cameron
Cameron Resources Group LLC

]]> Comment on Getting Started With PHP_CodeSniffer by chris http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/2012/05/getting-started-with-php_codesniffer/#comment-42141 chris Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:57:55 +0000 http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/?p=481#comment-42141 no releases available for package “pear.php.net/PHP_CodeSNiffer”

still can’t get it to work, had nothing in users at all not even appdata, installed php 5.3.21

had to download pear independently and install thus:

php -d phar.require_hash=0 go-pear.phar

had to redo my mysql password from the command line, I wonder if it’s all worth it sheeesh!

]]> Comment on Testing Your PHP Knowledge by Richard Quadling http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/2011/05/testing-your-php-knowledge/#comment-39895 Richard Quadling Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:50:36 +0000 http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/?p=120#comment-39895 Hi.

I just took a test and these questions were in it. And completely pointless.

It had questions about Magic Quotes! ARGH!!!!! The very question itself indicates a total lack of understanding of the horrors this has inflicted on developers too lazy to do things the right way (Poka-Yoke rules if you ask me!).

The best test I took (and one that got me my last job) was about 10 lines of truly appalling code.

The test was “Document your improvements”.

REAL programming isn’t just about cutting code. It about maintaining and documenting the decisions you’ve made so that in 1, 2, 10 years time, other developers will have a clue what you did.

Sure, today we can read the heavily nested multiple tertiary statement, but really, should you have too? Sensible coding styles, consistent layout, docblocks, sensible variable/class naming conventions (I like Hungarian Notation for my variables – that’s what I taught myself 20 years ago). All of these are the sign of a good programmer.

No comments? Constant shorthanded code? Reliance on type juggling (shudder)? All essentially “showing off” and useless to another developer – especially a junior developer wanting (or having) to pick up on your so-called “leet skillz” (another shudder – I’ve no idea if any real developer actually would dare use those words!).

So. Test taken. Got 90th percentile. Hopefully counts for something.

Love the article.

Regards,

Richard.

]]> Comment on Windows, Zend Server, PEAR Installation by Jay http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/2012/03/windows-zend-server-pear-installation/#comment-37567 Jay Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:50:21 +0000 http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/?p=469#comment-37567 The first paragraph sums it up perfectly, I cant remember how many times I have had to do this, and every time I forget! Thanks for this, added to faves. :)

]]> Comment on My Favorite Firefox Add-Ons by Scott Lively http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/2012/02/my-favorite-firefox-add-ons/#comment-32340 Scott Lively Tue, 28 Aug 2012 19:02:49 +0000 http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/?p=424#comment-32340 How could I forget easy Xdebug, the addon to help make debugging with Netbeans IDE easier. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/easy-xdebug/

]]> Comment on Windows, Zend Server, PEAR Installation by Scott Lively http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/2012/03/windows-zend-server-pear-installation/#comment-30605 Scott Lively Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:05:58 +0000 http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/?p=469#comment-30605 When you try to run pear from anywhere on the command line you may get the following message… “PHP_PEAR_PHP_BIN is not set correctly. Please fix it using your environment variable or modify the default value in pear.bat The current value is: .\php.exe.” Right click on My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced System Settings -> Environment Variables… -> Under User variables click on the Variable PHP_PEAR_PHP_BIN and click Edit -> Change the Variable value to C:\Program Files (x86)\Zend\ZendServer\bin\php.exe -> Click OK, OK, OK. Lastly, close your Windows command prompt window and reopen it. You should now be able to type pear on the command line and see correct results without an error message.

]]> Comment on My Favorite Firefox Add-Ons by Scott Lively http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/2012/02/my-favorite-firefox-add-ons/#comment-30566 Scott Lively Sat, 11 Aug 2012 11:57:26 +0000 http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/?p=424#comment-30566 Another great Add-On tool to use for web development is YSlow https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yslow/. YSlow analyzes web pages and why they’re slow based on Yahoo!’s rules for high performance web sites.

]]> Comment on Testing Your PHP Knowledge by Ravi Gehlot http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/2011/05/testing-your-php-knowledge/#comment-11571 Ravi Gehlot Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:46:20 +0000 http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/?p=120#comment-11571 Excellent article. Thumbs up. I share the same thoughts as all of you. Imagine if they were to test us on ANY word of the English vocabulary. Do you know the meaning of the following words without using a dictionary: Erinaceous, Depone, Mesonoxian and such? It is insane what they try to tests on those assessments. There are better ways to test a programmers knowledge…give him an IDE and ask him to write a piece of code for you. That would be one way to test his knowledge. Give him a problem and ask him to come up with an algorithm to solve the issue…let him use php.net and nothing else. That would be another way to test someone’s knowledge. But trying to get us to “memorize” stuff is insane. It’s like telling a child not to learn but memorize…for as long as that child can recite everything, he/she will make it through.

]]> Comment on Testing Your PHP Knowledge by Karl http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/2011/05/testing-your-php-knowledge/#comment-9727 Karl Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:19:01 +0000 http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/?p=120#comment-9727 Just about to sit a test for PHP programming!!!
Im in my 40s so a test is not something i have done for over 20 years, normally a client will ask for a website and i will build it.
Yes i use PHP and many other languages that get integrated in to the site. I like many others that are self taught will use the online recourses if i have a problem to solve and then once its done will remember i have used that code before and for time saving will use it again and again.

I have looked at many different online tests and to be honest i got a range of 66% to 95% some function I don’t use so got them wrong but if i needed to use it then php.net would be a good place to start. Might just be me but memorising all the functions seems impossible how do you brush up on all these skills

]]> Comment on Zend Framework Pros And Cons by Scott Lively http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/2011/03/zend-framework-pros-and-cons/#comment-8808 Scott Lively Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:15:05 +0000 http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/?p=48#comment-8808 @Neo85 Yes, ZF really has a loosely coupled use-at-will architecture. For example, if you just want to use the framework’s code to validate an email address then all you have to do is include the code from the Zend_Validate directory and then require_once ‘Zend/Validate/EmailAddress.php’; You don’t need ALL of the files from the full library.

What is the minimum number of files needed to start a small web app? That depends on whether you’re using the MVC design pattern and/or what other components of the ZF you plan on using. I find it easier to just download the full library and use ZF’s autoloading to include the files I need. Yes, you can worry about the size of the library and that is a valid argument but I believe the benefit of having a full-stack framework at your finger tips is worth the tradeoff.

]]> Comment on Zend Framework Pros And Cons by Neo85 http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/2011/03/zend-framework-pros-and-cons/#comment-8787 Neo85 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:12:18 +0000 http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/?p=48#comment-8787 “It has a loosely coupled use-at-will architecture. ” really?
So whats the minimum number of files needed to start a small web app?

]]> Comment on Installing PEAR After Zend Server by Scott Lively http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/2011/12/installing-pear-after-zend-server/#comment-8471 Scott Lively Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:04:26 +0000 http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/?p=354#comment-8471 @Virgilio and @rss Check this out and modify accordingly… http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.php

]]> Comment on Installing PEAR After Zend Server by rss http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/2011/12/installing-pear-after-zend-server/#comment-8448 rss Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:22:04 +0000 http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/?p=354#comment-8448 After step 2 i get this:
Starting installation …
Loading zlib: ok

Bootstrapping Installer……………….
Bootstrapping PEAR.php…………(remote) “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>

An Exception Has Occurred

Unknown location: /pear/pear-core/branches/PEAR_1_4/PEAR.php

HTTP Response Status

404 Not Found

ok
Bootstrapping Archive/Tar.php…………(remote)

…………………………..**************………….

pl suggest something i ma also using win 7 64 bit, additionall a window pops up and says “ICLIT09B.dll is missing”.
please help

]]> Comment on Installing PEAR After Zend Server by Virgilio http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/2011/12/installing-pear-after-zend-server/#comment-7558 Virgilio Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:01:04 +0000 http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/?p=354#comment-7558 After step 2 i get this:
Starting installation …
Loading zlib: ok

Bootstrapping Installer……………….
Bootstrapping PEAR.php…………(remote) “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>

An Exception Has Occurred

Unknown location: /pear/pear-core/branches/PEAR_1_4/PEAR.php

HTTP Response Status

404 Not Found

ok
Bootstrapping Archive/Tar.php…………(remote)

]]> Comment on Testing Your PHP Knowledge by VonWrinkle http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/2011/05/testing-your-php-knowledge/#comment-7524 VonWrinkle Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:57:41 +0000 http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/?p=120#comment-7524 Just took the same test… 37 questions… identical. I took another assessment for CSS and found a bunch of bogus questions in it as well. Who makes up these questions anyway? From what I’ve seen, I agree with you that 90% of the questions aren’t used in “every day programming”…

… and robert – I’m with you too. NOBODY programs from memory. We all have references up and running.

Luckily, I was able to use my references on my assessment… and am very glad for it.

I had an interview with another “tech” company that was more for SEO/Internet Marketing than PHP programming. They said the job was only 30% programming and yet, I had to do an assessment with 2 other “programming types” in a meeting room at a WHITE BOARD. I knew my chances were of getting the job were zip as soon as they started asking for answers to programming questions using nothing but the white board… FOR an SEO/Internet Marketing job? … and I have a master’s in Internet Marketing. Talk about a good way to lose good people.

Thanks for the article

]]> Comment on Integrating CKEditor And CKFinder With Zend Framework by Scott Lively http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/2011/07/integrating-ckeditor-and-ckfinder-with-zend-framework/#comment-5332 Scott Lively Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:47:26 +0000 http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/?p=209#comment-5332 @Joey That is a great point to use a view helper for each instance of the CKEditor that you are creating. Any time you see code being repeated means that there’s probably a way to refactor that out. Thanks for sharing!

]]> Comment on DOCTYPE And Zend_Form by Scott Lively http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/2011/10/doctype-and-zend_form/#comment-5331 Scott Lively Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:44:45 +0000 http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/?p=277#comment-5331 @Joey

1. I agree regarding the short tags but I’m lazy. If it was a big deal porting then I’d just use a find and replace and that would be fixed in about two seconds.

2. Good point. Thanks for sharing that.

3 & 4. You’re basically saying the same thing here and you are correct.

I think the main point of the article was that by declaring your DOCTYPE and using Zend_Form there isn’t a need to worry about whether or not you need to close your form tags and ZF will do it automatically for you provided you bootstrap your layout before declaring your DOCTYPE.

Thanks for the comments!

]]> Comment on DOCTYPE And Zend_Form by Joey http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/2011/10/doctype-and-zend_form/#comment-5259 Joey Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:46:48 +0000 http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/?p=277#comment-5259 1. You should never, ever use the short opening tags and shorthand echo its a no-no since the code could be moved and the server php.ini might not be so friendly to it on the new server ;)

2. You can also set the doctype in the application ini and save the bootstrapping.

3. It should also be mentioned that if the form you are trying to validate is behind a secure area (behind a login) then the w3c validator will not validate the page.

4. If the content within the form is conditional, or if the page itself has conditional markup (Acl filtered) the validator will ONLY validate the page as a guest, not as a logged in user, which means the page may be valid as a guest, and still fail validation for a logged in user ;)

]]> Comment on Integrating CKEditor And CKFinder With Zend Framework by Joey http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/2011/07/integrating-ckeditor-and-ckfinder-with-zend-framework/#comment-5257 Joey Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:38:31 +0000 http://www.livelywebdesign.com/blog/?p=209#comment-5257 Nice tutorial but I much prefer to set up a view helper that allows injection of ckedtior upon any textarea from the controller using a switch based approach. This allows the use of Zend_Form for form creation and of course form inheritance while still allowing the use of Ckedtior in the view. In my current implementation I can choose 1 of 3 editors on the fly simply by either using Dojo editor from the form class or by passing a string identifier for the editor I wish to use from the controller, to the view (i.e. $this->view->editor = ‘ckeditor’) then checking to see which editor is being set for the current action and text area. This allows me to use say tiny_mce for one field and ckeditor for another and Dojo for another. Not that someone would really need to do this, but hey… I like options :) Happy coding :)

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