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Re:Mastering PHP on Thursday November 28, 2013 @09:09AM (#6814533)
Jesus, Firstly I wasn't saying that I was a PHP master, what I'm interested in is how to turn into one, where does the journey lead to and how would I know when I'm there.

However, a BIG thank you for pointing that page out to me

Mastering PHP

Posted by Noel_V on Thursday November 28, 2013 @08:48AM
from the self-post dept.

When can I say I've mastered PHP?What kind of thing would I have to make to show as evidence that I've mastered it?

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State of confusion: What is LAMP and when can I say I know it?

Posted by Noel_V on Thursday November 28, 2013 @07:17AM
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I've been learning PHP a bit over a year now and am getting fairly confident with it. Am at the slightly pre apply for jobs confidence level but nearly there.One thing that confuses me is many jobs state you need to know the LAMP stack..I'm able to get things done with MySQL and PHP and I've assumed my webhost works on a Linux Apache basis, but I couldn't really say I know anything about Linux...

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Alternatives to Google adwords?

Posted by Noel_V on Friday October 25, 2013 @07:52AM
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My business makes a good deal of its sales using google adwords, however it appears I've maxed out profitability with that ad provider and I'm curious as to whether there's any thing similar I could use to generate visits to my site with a pay per click basis.I'ld want to target largely the UK market..

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Ask HN: Sublime

Posted by Noel_V on Sunday September 08, 2013 @06:20PM
from the ask-hn dept.

First I used Notepad, then Textwrangler, then Dreamweaver followed by Netbeans and a few minutes ago I started using Sublime..Fast and sheer awesomeness is my first impression..Is it as good as it seems?

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I'm wanting to find work in PHP and backend code what should I study?

Posted by Noel_V on Friday September 06, 2013 @10:40AM
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Heylo HNAs the title says I want to work in PHP development, currently I'm studying at Birckbeck, a higher certificate in web design and the modules I'm taking next are generally PHP and MySQL related.I'm considering doing an open university degree afterwards as I can only study part time due to having a small business and a small family, but it seems a computer science degree would be.....

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Your first programming job

Posted by Noel_V on Saturday August 31, 2013 @12:48PM
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Hello Hackernews,I'm slowly getting better and better with my PHP skills and slowly searching for PHP internship positions in London, and why not, the world.I've noticed a distinct difficulty in getting jobs as a majority of jobs I've found listed require a couple of years experience in the field. Fair enough, training inexperienced people can be tough.To help me in my quest for employment in...

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Re:Who wants to give me a job? on Thursday August 22, 2013 @03:26AM (#6255631)
Have started using netbeans, as of today, can see why you would suggest it, it seems, at first impression much better
Re:Who wants to give me a job? on Thursday August 22, 2013 @03:25AM (#6255628)
Wasn't aware of that, thanks.
Re:Who wants to give me a job? on Thursday August 22, 2013 @03:24AM (#6255627)
The degree course I could continue to do has some modules of questionable value and I could learn at a faster more specific rate alone. I used to be somewhat anti dreamweaver, and I still never use it in design view for instance, I use it as a text editor, but as was suggested in another reply to this post I've downloaded netbeans and I'm starting to use that. First impressions, netbeans seems very nice.
Re:Who wants to give me a job? on Sunday August 18, 2013 @07:21AM (#6232362)
Here's something I whipped together in 45 minutes

http://www.noelvock.com/sgto

Re:Who wants to give me a job? on Sunday August 18, 2013 @06:35AM (#6232297)
I've had some good feedback about the Wild Hives site with regards design, but hey, preferences like that are largely subjective.

My portfolio site definitely needs some updating and with regards the validation errors, I could fix them, but its low in my list of things to do.

The ide I use is Dreamweaver. I'm also familiar with Photoshop and Fireworks.

Thanks for the feedback, its very welcome and hoping for further suggestions..

Who wants to give me a job?

Posted by Noel_V on Sunday August 18, 2013 @05:22AM
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Hello Hackernews,I'm rather good with HTML and CSS, I can implement Javascript and Jquery elements wherever I've tried. I'm getting better and better with PHP and am about to start the second year of Higher certificate of web technologies. Really however, I'm pretty much self taught without any commercial web design experience.I've been working at my personal business site for about six months...

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Ask HN: How do I get into programming?

Posted by Noel_V on Monday June 17, 2013 @02:40PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm thirty years old, I work in the fast food industry, I'm pretty good at HTML and CSS and can put together a pretty website. I'm learning PHP and Javascript slowly and for the past couple of years I've spent my every spare minute coding something. Yet, I haven't got any work experience in the industry and I want to be a programmer. How on earth do I break into the industry?Responses would be...

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Re:Ask HN: What book are you reading? on Monday June 10, 2013 @09:49PM (#5859038)
The Great Gatsby

How would you SEO the following site?

Posted by Noel_V on Saturday June 08, 2013 @08:39PM
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The question is the same as the title and the website I'm interested in is www.wildhives.co.ukI'm a web designer however I tend to get carried away with projects I work on, such as the one above, and I've gotten very interested in SEO..

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Re:Are we ready to eat lab grown meat? on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @07:26AM (#5285164)
Not really, lets wait for the machines to take over the entirety of manual labouring, then maybe.. That said, who's to stop a few uncaring entrepreneurial farmers doing as they please..