NYCPHP Meetup

[Phil Powell]

Well that makes me feel a bit better insofar as I can't figure out how to
get Java applets to keep talking to servlets and servlets to keep talking to
applets.

I know, it ain't PHP but how DO you write a chatroom in PHP?

Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam" <adam at ecamp.net>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at nyphp.org>
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 3:04 PM
Subject: RE: [nycphp-talk] NYC economy for web developers


> Haha. No I listen to Stern as well. I mean the ads are targeting bottom
> of the barrel.
> "Tired of hearing your best friend having this great job while you hate
> your job and cant wait for the weekend..."
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jaz-Michael King [mailto:JMKing at ipro.org]
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 2:40 PM
> To: NYPHP Talk
> Subject: RE: [nycphp-talk] NYC economy for web developers
>
> I lucked out, at my last interview I ended up fixing their formmail. I
> was hired on the spot :o)
>
> I listen to Stern... am I really bottom of the barrel?
>
> J
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> Jaz-Michael King
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> IPRO
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> >>> "Adam" <adam at ecamp.net> 05/10/02 12:48PM >>>
> My friend interviews people in DC for his company.
> He had a woman come in for a programming position, but more doing
> advanced JS and a little CF.  He asked her to write a simple JS function
> to count 1 to 10 and display the results on the browser.  She started to
> cry and say that she thought it was very unfair that they ask this hard
> of a question on an interview... As she was stressed out enough.
>
> Tho that doesn't beat the ex biker transvestite turned web developer who
> barely knew what a <title> tag was trying to ask for a 60k salary at my
> company. :)
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> It doesn't help on Stern every morning you hear ads to become an IT
> professional and make the big bucks... Advertising to bottom of the
> barrel folks.  Oh well.
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> I think in the consulting world, its all about word of mouth these days.
> If I put an ad in the paper I will be flooded with so much garbage it is
> near impossible to find the needle in the haystack.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Sklar [mailto:sklar at sklar.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 12:30 PM
> To: NYPHP Talk
> Subject: RE: [nycphp-talk] NYC economy for web developers
>
> > From: Hans Cathcart [mailto:hans at cathcart.org]
> >
> > People with deep technical skills in
> > Databases and Application development will make a come back.
> > Good designers will be OK.  But, people who just know how to
> > code HTML and use Dreamweaver are a dime a dozen now.
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> I think this is the crucial point. The explosion in need for "web
> programmers" caused a lot of people to go into the field without a lot
> of
> the industrial base of skills that are useful (necessary?) when jobs
> aren't
> so plentiful, like now.
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> The worst I saw this was at my old company in Boston, after an interview
> with a potential programmer. He did the standard 1 or 2 programming
> questions we asked and we talked about various things. At the end, he
> asked
> me if we always ask programming questions in interviews. (Yes). He said
> he
> thought that was very tough of us, since this was the first programming
> interview he'd been to where he'd actually been asked to write code!
>
> -dave
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