Mohammad Emran phpfour

A lot of these are outright stolen from Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions. I really like his list.

I'm having some trouble paring this down to a manageable list of questions -- I realistically want to know all of these things before starting to work at a company, but it's a lot to ask all at once. My current game plan is to pick 6 before an interview and ask those.

I'd love comments and suggestions about any of these.

I've found questions like "do you have smart people? Can I learn a lot at your company?" to be basically totally useless -- everybody will say "yeah, definitely!" and it's hard to learn anything from them. So I'm trying to make all of these questions pretty concrete -- if a team doesn't have an issue tracker, they don't have an issue tracker.

I'm also mostly not asking about principles, but the way things are -- not "do you think code review is important?", but "Does all code get reviewed?".

New computer setup

a/o 2020-05-29

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Format the drive

Restart with Cmd-R or Cmd-D
Erase drive / 3x if second-hand
Reinstall MacOS

Backend Architectures

Twitter

ror, scala, jetty, erlang, thrift, mongrel, comet server, my-sql, memchached, varnish, kestrel(mq), starling, gizzard, cassandra, hadoop, vertica, munin, nagios, awstats

Introduce Gizzard of Twitter - 트위터의 새로운 분산 관리 라이브러리 Gizzard를 소개합니다.
The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users, 300K QPS, a 22 MB/S Firehose, and Send Tweets in Under 5 Seconds
Scaling Twitter: Making Twitter 10000 Percent Faster

In the comments from my last post and on Twitter I noticed a lot of people who had something to say about PHP. The comments were varied but they usally sounded something like this (sorry @ipetepete, I picked yours because it was the shortest).

...the little bits of soul from all of us who've had to work on, and or maintain large PHP applications. – ipetepete

In Pete's defense, he did go on to say that rest of the stack I was using was a "smorgasbord of awesome". Thanks, Pete. I agree!

I would, however, like to take a little time to correct a misperception in the developer community about PHP. I recently got into this same... discussion... with Jeff Atwood, and I seem to be running into it more and more. So here goes. Please bear with me as I cover a little history further on.

Pete, and everybody else, _you're exactly rig

Installation

This procedure is tested on Mac OS X 10.8 with Developpers tools installed (xCode).

PHP 5.4 installed with Homebrew.

Update: I wrote a blog post about this.

Preparation

Download the following files from Oracle website (yes, you need to create an account and accept terms):

	<?php

	namespace Acme\PeopleSoftBundle\Listener;

	use Doctrine\DBAL\Event\ConnectionEventArgs;
	use Doctrine\DBAL\Events;
	use Doctrine\Common\EventSubscriber;

	/**
	* Changes Doctrine's default Oracle-specific column type mapping to Doctrine

	#!/bin/sh -

	# The important part is not to put the password as an argument to the mysql
	# commands, i.e. don't use the -p option. Instead use a .my.cnf file in the home
	# dir of the user you are running this script as, i.e. /root/.my.cnf if running
	# as root. Make the file readable for the owner only: chmod 400 /root/.my.cnf
	# See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17829659/securing-backup-credentials-for-mysqldump/17844997#17844997

	umask 007

	<?php

	use Behat\Behat\Context\BehatContext;

	require_once 'RestContext.php';

	/**
	* Features context.
	*/
	class FeatureContext extends BehatContext

	<ul>
	<li class="share-text">Share this>/li>
	<li class="share-tw"><a href="http://twitter.com/share?text=[title]"><span></span></a></li>
	<li class="share-fb"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=/node/[nid]&p=[title]"><span></span></a></li>
	<li class="share-pinterest"><a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=/node/[nid]&description=[title]"><span></span></a></li>
	</ul>

	<?php

	$tokenGenerator = $this->getContainer()->get('fos_user.util.token_generator');
	$password = substr($tokenGenerator->generateToken(), 0, 8); // 8 chars