Re: O/T : Looking for an entry level LAMP developer for contract work.

2015-07-23 Thread Stephen Partington
For all of the weirdness in the Pearson hiring process the Hiring Manager writes the requirements in full for any posting. Not HR or whomever. On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 6:46 AM, David Schwartz newslett...@thetoolwiz.com wrote: The current process of matching resumes with job reqs passed from

Re: O/T : Looking for an entry level LAMP developer for contract work.

2015-07-23 Thread David Schwartz
The current process of matching resumes with job reqs passed from managers to HR to recruiters / web sites to developers and back is totally broken. We have hiring managers on one end who have been out of the loop for a while and don’t seem to understand a lot of the tech used by the people

Re: O/T : Looking for an entry level LAMP developer for contract work.

2015-07-23 Thread Stephen Partington
The amount of Truth in this is daunting. On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 10:40 PM, der.hans pl...@lufthans.com wrote: Am 22. Jul, 2015 schwätzte Nathan England so: moin moin, The company I currently work for has 3 developer position openings and in 4 months we've had only two candidates apply.

Re: O/T : Looking for an entry level LAMP developer for contract work.

2015-07-23 Thread Keith Smith
der.hans, is there a solution to this and if so what is it? Great piece by the way. On 2015-07-22 22:40, der.hans wrote: Am 22. Jul, 2015 schwätzte Nathan England so: moin moin, The company I currently work for has 3 developer position openings and in 4 months we've had only two

Re: LVM and raid

2015-07-23 Thread Stephen Partington
A couple of things i have set up for. The initital install is on LVM already so most of that was in place (including /) and i have no data on this. so if it wrecked its only an install away to start over. But this is a good start for some reading, thank you! On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Matt

Re: O/T : Looking for an entry level LAMP developer for contract work.

2015-07-23 Thread Keith Smith
David, You always have great insight into the tech community. Keith On 2015-07-23 06:46, David Schwartz wrote: The current process of matching resumes with job reqs passed from managers to HR to recruiters / web sites to developers and back is totally broken. We have hiring managers on one

Re: suggestions for good wiki?

2015-07-23 Thread JD Austin
Not something I've set up but there seems to be a lot of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wikis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_software -- JD Austin Voice: 480.269.4335 (480 2MY Geek) j...@twingeckos.com On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 8:06 AM, rustyca...@descomp.com

Buying hardware cheep

2015-07-23 Thread Keith Smith
I only buy when I can get a really good deal. I own this exact laptop as does my wife. I run Mint on mine. I wish I would have gotten this good of a deal. I got a deal, however not this good.

Re: O/T : Looking for an entry level LAMP developer for contract work.

2015-07-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 07:23:13 -0700 Keith Smith techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote: der.hans, is there a solution to this and if so what is it? Great piece by the way. By this, I assume you mean the ridiculous job requirements discussed by der.hans and David Schwartz. And I'd like to point out

Re: suggestions for good wiki?

2015-07-23 Thread Ed
I like Semantic-Mediawiki[1] but plain old Mediawiki[2] might work for you. If you are in a dev environment, the included wiki in Trac[3] is very good. [1] https://semantic-mediawiki.org [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki [3] http://trac.edgewall.org/ A great commercial wiki is

Re: Buying hardware cheep

2015-07-23 Thread David Schwartz
Actually, since you brought this up … A couple of years ago, I picked up a killer deal on an Asus laptop at Best Buy just as Windows 8 was being released. Seems retailers all over were flushing out stock of everything that had Windows 7 installed. So this might simply be an indicator that