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Forgot, I was using the mail.mysite.com and the IP address for same
with similar results and it worked beautifully until they blocked the
SMTP port on me.
I have had mixed results with windows sendmail clones. Fake Sendmail
worked sometimes but crashed a lot so I stopped
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Hello Kristina,
> Unfortunately, there are few geniuses in HR :)
HA! I'll second, third and fourth that one! I have seen many who
thought they were ... LOL
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Tim -- thanks --
I am 99% sure that it's not my code that's the issue...I will look into
the below first thing in the morning. If it comes down to it, we can
port the site to a new server if we can't make it work in this
environment.
-- Kristina
> mail() used to work fine on windows (under
mail() used to work fine on windows (under IIS, anyway) last time I had
to deal with it (years ago).
My suggestion:
- Get an SMTP server hostname at your hosting provider
- Use a better mail-sending system, like swiftmailer:
http://www.swiftmailer.org/ (I think you can still get a reasona
Following up on my own post, just to be clear -- I think a certification
exam for web developers is impossible. And/or the fact that you know PHP
inside and out doesn't make you worth anything on a real project. You
can't reduce the breadth and complexity to a multiple-choice test. Such
a setu
Really hope the questions about Left Outer Joins using COALESCE and how
to get mail() to work on a Windows box aren't on the cert test??
Or I'm doo doo. :)
PS I'm not sure how to say "fogged a mirror" in Latin but we can look
it up!
> on 2008-04-23 17:25 Peter Sawczynec said the following:
> >
on 2008-04-23 17:25 Peter Sawczynec said the following:
I believe the most beneficial PHP+ cert that we can strive for would be
more on par with a Cisco cert. An acknowledged, industry heavy weight,
Note that the lower-level Cisco certs (i.e. everything but the CCIE or
its equivalent) now have
Certifications about particular technologies are dumb, unless there's a
certain amount of built-in complexity that justifies them (or not, but I
don't know what Cisco certifications are like, etc). PHP is a small
enough system that it doesn't warrant it.
Any competent programmer can become sa
> I used to be in the plural camp. But I've become fond of the singular
> camp. That way the table can more easily match the names of the columns.
> This makes things easier when it comes to making automatic tools for
> sanitizing input and reverse engineering databases.
Makes sense. I will
Hi John:
> I am a bit stuck with legacy naming that is all over the place.
Fun fun fun!
> Is there a defacto standard for schema naming?
There are loads of naming standards. I think very highly of Peter
Gulutzan. The live version of the web page has been yanked, but
Archive.org to the resc
Thanks David,
I found the following...is it worth trying to modify the ini file or
should I start trying to use the Zend mail function and/or Outlook?
//==
Runtime Configuration
The behavior of the mail functions is affected by settings in the
php.ini file.
Mail configuration options:
Name
Kristina Anderson wrote:
Hi everyone --
My current client's app is a PHP 4 site running on a Windows box (don't
ask...I have no idea why).
Because it is a stable setup and typically outperforms a LAMPP stack. I use
this since day one and even before my PHP time for both development and
prod
I'm sorry I left one thing out: I also muttered my way through many,
many help files apparently loosely translated from the original Balkan
on many, many unending moonless nights. -P
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of John Campbell
Sent: Wedn
There is nothing silly in engendering some conversation around promoting
an updatable cert that allows PHP to be constantly guiding programmers
up to and in to the known needed skills most highly anticipated in the
market today.
I would like to clarify:
1) I originally suggested to simply use th
Hi everyone --
My current client's app is a PHP 4 site running on a Windows box (don't
ask...I have no idea why). I'm trying to use the mail() function and
the mail isn't cooperating.
(Two things that I noticed in phpinfo() are that Internal Sendmail
Support for Windows is enabled and the Z
This is sillyness in my opinion. All certs are fatally flawed. As
soon as you write a good test, someone writes a better study guide. I
personally think the latest Zend test would be hard to improve upon.
If you think you can do better than Zend, Microsoft, et al, I think
you are kidding yoursel
It would most likely benefit all if the questions/situations/reviews
were based on very contemporary (if not forward looking) programming,
i.e. the cert would be heavily weighted towards security,
state/cookies/sessions, database related, file handling and uploads, and
internet/SOAP/CURL.
Maybe a
It would of course be very valuable to have a Computer Science degree
that included actual hands on programming and multimedia.
But then it would still be best to have an professional
industry/association cert just like other serious technical/professional
careers that involve consumer/business fin
Mike --
I passed on the opportunity to take the Microsoft certs (back in my
ASP/VB days). I thought the questions were assinine because the tests
had nothing to do with real world programming tasks and were more rote
memorization of factoids. Also I was convinced that those testing
centers h
I'd have to agree 100% that "in the trenches" experience and a track
record of being paid to write solid code for many years is worth way
more than any piece of paper, whether it be degree or cert or whatnot.
Unfortunately, there are few geniuses in HR :)
-Kristina
>
> > Some sound advice, G
Hello Kristina,
You are right.
> --Kristina (B.A., 1985) :)
My B.A. was in 1986.
I am still a little suspicious about certification programs in general
from what I have encountered as a Software Engineering manager even when
I was at Microsoft. I frequently interviewed people with certification
Some sound advice, GET THE DEGREE! When push comes to shove that is
what give you credibility not some pie in the sky marketing hype that
promises the moon and delivers chopped liver.
You make that sound so easy. But then again, I'm not one of the
ones pushing for certification but inst
Mike -- 99.9% of the people posting on this list do have a university
degree, from what I have seen! A lot of them have MS or PhDs, even.
But, a 10- or 20-year old degree doesn't prove anything when it comes
to current technology. A certification in current technology proves
that you are know
No matter how many certificates you stack on top of each other from
Manhattan to the Moon, it STILL does not equate to a BScs degree. I
see lots of people here bitterly complaining about legitimacy and yet
the avoid the very thing that gives them instant credibility, the
Degree.
My very first expe
Naming conventions were once a hotly debated issue back in the day when
mainframes ruled the universe. An old applications programming technique was
to prefix identifier. For example the Users Table would be called
users_table and each element in that table would be prefixed with ut (for
users_
on 2008-04-23 13:16 tedd said the following:
However, the problem as I see is two-fold:
1. What's required to become certified (obvious);
Not so obvious; the various flavors of BSD unix have a large
volunteer community going for BSD Unix certification, and they've
only now starting to come to
At 1:42 PM -0400 4/23/08, Urb LeJeune wrote:
1. What's required to become certified (obvious);
To you is obvious, to me not so obvious :-) I know I sound
like a broken record but to me
programming is not about syntax it's about logic and problem solving.
No, you took the word obvio
On Apr 23, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Urb LeJeune wrote:
1. What's required to become certified (obvious);
To you is obvious, to me not so obvious :-) I know I sound
like a broken record but to me
programming is not about syntax it's about logic and problem solving.
I would agree. I have
on 2008-04-23 13:16 tedd said the following:
However, the problem as I see is two-fold:
1. What's required to become certified (obvious);
Not so obvious; the various flavors of BSD unix have a large volunteer
community going for BSD Unix certification, and they've only now
starting to come to
1. What's required to become certified (obvious);
To you is obvious, to me not so obvious :-) I know I sound
like a broken record but to me
programming is not about syntax it's about logic and problem solving.
Many years ago Edsger Dijkstr, one of the giants of computer
sci
Hi gang:
It would be nice to be a certified programmer -- I'm certified in
other professions and it helps somewhat.
However, the problem as I see is two-fold:
1. What's required to become certified (obvious);
2. What are the qualifications of the governing body and its
industry's support (n
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Daniel Convissor
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi John:
> [snip]
> Don't use sub selects unless really necessary. They kill performance.
Yeah, that's why I knew what I was doing was wrong.
> Also also, use a consistent naming convention. You've got plural
> d
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Ben Sgro wrote:
> We've agreed on the Zend Framework, the zend modules and coding style
I dont think we should favor one framework over another.
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