Most common design patterns in OOP. Introduction.
Posted by Stanislav Furman on September 9, 2012How to interview a programmer. Thoughts about hiring process.
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Just a few thoughts...
I cannot remember how many various job interviews I have passed in my professional career. Maybe fifteen, or twenty, or maybe more. Some of them were successful, some of them not. However, very rarely I have met a really good recruitment process. Whether in Eastern Europe or in Canada – I noticed that everywhere.
Sometimes it was just a waste of my time when, for example, the potential employer declared something like: "Actually, we are looking for a specialist with a slightly different skills set" or "Unfortunately, we are limited with our budget and cannot offer you the salary that you are seeking. How about a salary 20% less than you are making now?". Seriously?!! Guys, you were aware about my salary expectations before you asked me to come for the in-person interview!
Keep in mind that for every such interview candidate should make some time to prepare, leave early from the current job (or come in later), and maybe even take a day off. Also, potential employers are spending their time too! So, why should they both waste time if a short phone call may help to figure out whether it makes sense to meet or not?!
Continue readingA little bit of humour
Posted by Stanislav Furman on July 21, 2012Just a little bit of humour from programmer's life. :-)
If you have a problem and you have to solve it using regular expressions, then you have two problems! :-)
PHP application performance tuning
Posted by Stanislav Furman on March 15, 2012Hello Coders!
In this article I will list a few advises on how to optimize your PHP web application performance. All these tips below I learned myself or from co-workers, blog articles and books. Keep in mind though that usually there is no need to go nuts when it comes to performance optimization. So, please don't open your IDE right away and don't try to use all tips together. Simply get an idea and note something that could be useful in your specific case.
Continue readingCSS rounded corners
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Posted by Stanislav Furman on February 19, 2012Visual Representation of SQL Joins on a graphical diagram
Posted by Stanislav Furman on February 18, 2012For some programmers (especially for begginers) it might be a bit difficult to understand how do SQL joins work in real life. In fact, sometimes even experienced software developers are not able to explain what is the difference between JOIN, LEFT JOIN and RIGHT JOIN.
Luckily, I found, perhaps, one of the best visual representations of SQL joins I have ever seen which will definately help to understand the mechanism of SQL joins.
See more graphical diagrams and explanations here