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	INTERVIEWING PROGRAMMERS – START WITH CODE

	October 8, 2014 by Tom Howlett
	I spent the day yesterday interviewing programmers for a new start-up near Bristol. It’s a job I love. I’m always intrigued to hear about peoples careers and how the approach the challenges we present. For me recruiting a programmer has to start with code. I don’t really care about the CV and the application process for this job involved a quick coding problem. Passionate programmers are able to communicate their ability far more easily through code than by describing their experiences.

	Traditionally interviews usually start with a discussion about the role and the candidate’s past experience. It’s often an uncomfortable conversation, everyone is a bit nervous and out of their comfort zone and I rarely get anything useful from it. I’ve learn’t that if you start with code, sitting side by side, sharing thoughts on the pre-interview problem, good candidates quickly relax. Then is the time to asking questions that go beyond programmin

	GEANY
	sudo apt-get install geany geany-plugins

	ECLIPSE
	sudo apt-get install eclipse

	Maria DB
	sudo apt-get install mariadb-server

	APACHE + PHP

	<VirtualHost 127.0.0.2:80>
	ServerName my-works
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
	DocumentRoot /home/phprepo/www/my-works

	<Directory /home/phprepo/www/my-works/>
	Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
	AllowOverride None
	Order allow,deny
	allow from all

	I have a setup like this:

	application
	system
	assets
	js
	imgs
	css
	I then have a helper function that simply returns the full path to this depending on my setup.. something similar to:

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html lang="en">
	<head>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<title>Project Title</title>
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
	<meta name="description" content="">
	<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">

	<!-- Twitter Bootstrap -->

	#!/bin/bash

	# Script that optimizes a Symfony2 standard distribution for raw performance benchmarks

	# Get the Symfony2 standard edition
	mkdir benchmark
	cd benchmark
	git clone http://github.com/symfony/symfony-standard.git .

	# Remove unneeded vendor specific code

	#!/bin/bash
	read -p "Enter your app name: " APP
	if [ q$APP == q ] ; then
	echo "No app ... aborting"
	exit 1
	fi

	read -p "Enter database engine [mysql\|pgsql] (mysql): " ENG
	if [ q$ENG == q ] ; then
	ENG=mysql

	/**
	* Created by Nav on 7-3-2015.
	* Tetraeder (english name: tetrahedron) calculator:
	* http://onlinemschool.com/math/assistance/figures_volume/tetrahedron/
	* http://rechneronline.de/pi/tetrahedron.php
	*
	* By 10 cm riblength the volume
	* should be like 117.9
	* and the surface area 173.2
	*/

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	vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
	vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostsupdater