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by EnderMB 14y ago
The best offices I've worked in have always had a Spotify account set up, so anyone can remotely connect to the machine running Spotify and put whatever they want on. It's good because we always get a mix when people get past letting others
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I recently applied for a Django role and was asked to create a simple blogging script. It was a surprising amount of fun and even a small script like that helped me learn a ton about Django, enough for me to be able to pick it up and put it
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by EnderMB 14y ago
We've always had beer available near the end of a hard day at work, and it seems to be the norm at nearly every agency I've worked at or with. Frankly, I don't see the fuss. After just a single beer I don't really feel like carrying on with
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Anyone that has worked on a web site or application of significant size will say that a front-end developer is as much a developer as anyone else. Sure, HTML isn't that hard, but when you're dealing with cross-browser issues, supporting leg
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I'm in a similar boat. I'm not "senior", but I am skilled and have plenty of experience with a successful start-up and a top digital agency AND I am skilled in multiple languages/platforms. I constantly get calls, emails and stalked on Twit
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People only endorse you because they want to be endorsed themselves. I've used LinkedIn for a while now, especially over the past couple of months as I am now actively looking for work, and this is one of the more useless features they've a
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Given Samsung's past in providing updates for phones you may be waiting for a long time.
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You're absolutely right, but it's the current nature of sharing code on the Internet. I've had enough of my code slated to know, and at times it has stopped me posting what could be valuable code for others. It also depends on where you're
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Absolutely. There are fewer harder things in software development than taking criticism over code you've lovingly crafted, but ultimately it's this criticism that makes you understand the code better. Additionally, if you're posting code on
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Wow, two fellow UWE people! I had to go back and double check what I was reading!
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Agreed. Some of my happiest times playing football were on a small side street using a dustbin as a goal net. There's a reason it's by far the most popular sport in the world and as such this news can only be a good thing.
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by EnderMB 14y ago
When I first bought my Galaxy Nexus I was petrified that it'd end up with scratches galore. I've dropped it a number of times and it's still great. The first few Galaxy phones by Samsung were terrible and turned a lot of people away from An
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by EnderMB 14y ago
It was really popular over here (UK), but it died out fairly quickly when Facebook took over. My girlfriend is a teacher and she says that none of her students really knew what Windows Live Messenger was; kids today stick to Facebook, BBM a
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Many other CMS's are easy to develop for. The "scalability" issue is true but as I'm aware none of the top ten sites use WordPress. The point I disagree with the most is that users won't need training to use it. I hear this all the time wit
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I'd almost like to see it go the other way. WordPress is a good blog, but a poor CMS choice for anything but the most basic of websites. I reckon the "66%" that use WordPress use it for personal sites or very small business sites (1-10 visi
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Really? I've seen quite a few on here, and there is a ton of .NET work out there in the UK. If anything, in Bristol we're crying out for developers.
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Did we lose track of the big picture?(css-101.org)
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This is the first I've heard of this! I get daily spam texts from PPI companies (I even know what company they're coming from) so this will be invaluable to me. Thanks for posting!
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by EnderMB 14y ago
This is my biggest gripe with hiring, and it's something that will have to rise as requirements and responsibilities rise for developers.
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Aha, that'll do it! I never knew that there was a "last updated" list. What worries me is that recruiters must think that this is a legitimate way to source talent...
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by EnderMB 14y ago
In my case it was just a matter of playing the game. I added people that I had interacted with at my previous companies as connections, I listed any articles I've written, put up links to personal projects/sites and reduced my skills to a s
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I'd also like to know why, mainly because I decided to finish off my LinkedIn profile during a lazy afternoon and for the past couple of days I've had recruiters from Google, Microsoft and loads of other companies sniffing around my profile
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Sellotape is great when hiring a plumber isn't an option. It still doesn't make it a good solution when you want your sink to stop leaking. It's comments like these that make me wish I could downvote. It's this mentality that leads to Boots
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Bootstrap is in a class of its own for exactly what it is supposed to do; to allow a user to quickly set up a concept or prototype site. The reason why I don't like Bootstrap is because many people use it like a free design template. A seas
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Why? If a user interacts with a site differently on mobile than on their desktop machine then two separate interfaces is good? That's not just good "UX", it's good logic. The main argument I see against separate "views" is that it's an expe
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by EnderMB 14y ago
I'm a modest Web Developer with a few years experience at a good agency in the UK. If I were to leave my company I know I'd be able to land a job somewhere fairly easily for similar pay. Zynga is a well-known name and I'd be shocked if thei
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by EnderMB 14y ago
To push their ads. These articles are perfect for sites like these and sites like LifeHacker probably make a tidy sum of money from the Reddit/HN and previously Digg crowd.
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That's not the point. You have a finite amount of time in an interview, so why on earth would you ask a question regarding a meaningless skill that the candidate will use maybe once in their entire time at the company when you can ask somet
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"Because anyone who can't do this almost certainly doesn't have the ability to program any software system well, some shitty web app or otherwise. You're not trying to fill out a remedial CS course in community college, you're trying to get
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by EnderMB 14y ago
Bullshit. The only reason why people ask these things is because big software houses do so, and for some reason they think that their shitty web app needs a Google quality "rockstar developer". The difference between reversing a string and

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