Steves Latest Twitter Update (@PoPo) : Home About Steve Poland: Risk Taker Archives Contact Skill Tests for PHP/MySQL/etc? By Steve Poland • April 18, 2008 Looking at someone’s resume can help, but it doesn’t really tell me how bad/good/great a programmer is with PHP 5 or MySQL, etc. Do you know a LAMP/PHP freelancer? MORE >>

This theme also uses several widgetized areas with some custom built widgets and a custom "My Portfolio" content type for displaying art, photography, design work, projects, etc. Register the new widget in your themes function.php or widgets.php file by adding the PHP code below. php if (!dynamic_sidebar('post_top')) MORE >>

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Dev & Design Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Designing and critiquing logos for web-based companies and startups is a pursuit of endless fascination for many of us. Learn more here. Some of the trends are good; others, regrettable. MORE >>

The design of PHP’s basic random number generators rand and it’s newer variant mt_rand is based off the C Standard Library. Using /dev/urandom is quite a bit slower than using the native php functions. For better or worse, both use a single global state and this can be reset using stand (or mt_srand ). Yes we do! MORE >>

Not PHP, not ASP.net, not XYZ tech. ” RC: “[pause]… PHP?” Interviews are framed as a chat over a cup of tea, and are designed to allow the candidate to do their best, not to create an atmosphere of trying to trip them up or catch them out that technical interviews can too easily become. We use Python. MORE >>