Busy busy.. people leaving every week

Sadly since my boss left just over a month ago, many more people have been leaving. The trouble is not a single one has yet been replaced.

This means.. my blog suffers, amongst other things! When you lose your management, things get a bit "loose" and then you lose email marketing, and then you lose front end development.

I've been interviewing a lot, but I really don't know what I want. Wait.. I know what I want.. I want it to work at my current job! I just feel they don't want us to stay.

One offer I got really turned my stomach.. and the rest I pretty much dismissed immediately because they wanted to "test" me on my "php syntax knowledge". I am not the type of programmer who memorizes all the syntax, I think it's a waste of time. Since languages change so much, and who writes simple stuff from scratch anyhow? I definitely don't unless I have to.

I love solving web problems.. like .. How do we get this content to the users? how can we implement new technologies in intrigue users? stuff like that.

Not: What's the difference between asort, ksort and sort. Any monkey can google that in a heartbeat..

Frustrated, and really wanting either something new, or something to change here. I can't just be a regular developer forever, and I'm getting itchy to move to management, or more senior roles.

BFN

Implementing subversion, installing Eclipse PHP

After doing some research, and realizing that I can't easily write a web app to allow lay peoples the ability to run rsync.. I've decided to try and move to subversion.

I'm having some trouble finding a concise guide to doing it, and I want to read ALL about it beforehand, because although I'll be doing this on a test server, I don't want to mess it up!

In theory I should present a case for doing it before I go ahead, but since no one else here is even remotely technical, I'm not sure how.

I've reinstalled Eclipse with the thought it will be easier to check stuff in and out of subversion when the time comes. I also realised they have quite a decent debugger, once I'd setup mysql to handle the queries from my desktop, it all works great!

Still trying to work out how to make the debugger "ignore" certain errors (Debugger working for version 5.. but writing for version 4).

I am still on the lookout for new opportunities, I thought I had something recently, but it didn't work out. Very sad!

I think ICANN should call me back.. just because I can't remember off the top of my head the difference between sort, ksort, and asort.. and I can't off the top of my head write the regex for an ip address. Lets face it.. I don't use that stuff all that often, and google (and php.net) are my friend! All these things are very easily solved. Writing a decent web application.. well thats a LOT harder than remembering syntax.

Anyhow.. enough bitching ;)

BFN

ps. Here is how you find your version of redhat:
uname -a
cat /etc/redhat-release -------(laymans)

Back from vacation! OOP?

Back from a wonderful vacation to see Washington DC. It was much nicer than I expected, and the weather was delightful.

Onto more interesting things. Having been writing PHP since it's early days has left me wondering if I've been left behind. This means much of my past was procedural. I see OOP much more in my future, but am not sure where OOP starts, and procedural ends.

I've been looking at some code downloads that are samples from the book: Object-Oriented PHP. Honestly it looks just like the stuff I use right now.

As far as I can see, the main difference is doing things using classes instead of not.. sound about right? I'll read some more, then post again!

BFN