NYCPHP Meetup

[Adam]

You don't.. Well at least.  Can do a JS push/receive from the server
every X times or something... Similar to the way PHPLive does it.

If you load up the caht module on Kiwibox.com (teen site) my friend just
finished making that.. uses java. Is nice.

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Powell [mailto:soazine at erols.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 3:12 PM
To: NYPHP Talk
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] NYC economy for web developers

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
>
> ******************************
> Jaz-Michael King
> Online Services Manager
> IPRO
> http://ipro.org
> ******************************
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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. :)
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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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