Archive for July, 2006

29
Jul

little bit of fun at “The IconFactory”

… at the expense of the W3C … gotta love ‘em …

The IconFactory

Well, it brightened up my day anyway … :)

17
Jul

340,282,366,920,938,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000 IP addresses - phew!

The shorter version is:

Timesonline, July 15 340 undecillion, 282 decillion, 366 nonillion, 920 octillion, 938 septillion

And I though ‘Terra’ was a big number.

I guess with IPv6 - we won’t be running out of IP addresses anytime soon eh?

16
Jul

What is the best way to test a programmers skills?

I’ve been in web development for a good number of years, 3 years in a senior role. While I was back in London I was development manager at Landau Reece and I had the opportunity to interview a few developers with the company owners. It never really occurred to me that I should test the prospective employee’s with a programmers test until now.

Thailand is a great place, albeit with a few problems of its own (mostly within the political arena). That aside there is a large skills divide between Thailand and the UK, and its never been so apparent until now. I think I just made the assumption that people would be reasonably skillful no matter what country you are from, but thats rather naive of me.

Hence, how do I test someone appropriately?

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