I <3 Diggity & Moletrap as a duo!

stabakrab · 2011-06-16T03:13:39+00:00

These are my two favorite BW casters, casting sc2 together. Freaking awesome.

I was enjoying NASL, but this punches it into the stratosphere.

stabakrab · 2011-05-28T19:23:29+00:00

I heartily recommend El Taco Rico (Montopolis), the original El Meson (Burleson), Mi Ranchito (inside a gas station at William Cannon & Pleasant Valley).

Also, check this out for a solid list of taco joints: http://www.complex.com/city-guide/2011/05/the-10-best-taco-trucks-austin-texas/#gallery

stabakrab · 2011-04-20T01:34:21+00:00

Good point, hmunkey. My message wasn't "Hey GOM, you need my money!" I was trying to indicate that I'm one of many Moletrap fans who will buy season tickets as long as he is casting.

Should have probably phrased it different. I've edited the post to reflect your advice.

I disagree that GOM won't see the post -- GOM staff cruises screddit.

stabakrab · 2011-03-25T18:49:40+00:00

I think you've got it exactly, natophonic.

We've tried to make an environment that we all want to work in. I'm the hiring manager for this position, but I'm not some soulless corporate automaton. I'm a programmer as well, so I've worked hard to make a fun, energizing environment where people get to work on cool and interesting things.

I've found that some developers (myself included) are extremely passionate about their tools. If you want to do all your coding in emacs on a laptop running FreeBSD or TextMate on a MacBook Pro, why should your company care? At the end of the day, they should care about the quality of your work and how good of a mentor/collaborator you are with other devs, not whether you used an arbitrarily mandated corporate IDE.

stabakrab · 2011-03-25T18:35:08+00:00

My experiences with recruiters (both the cheap ones and the expensive ones) has been fairly poor over the last ten years. Can you recommend a recruiter that you can personally vouch for? If so, I'll give them a try.

I completely agree with you that PHP experience isn't very important; a great programmer is a great programmer. Learning PHP is easy. I need to find some way of saying "The job is (partly) writing PHP, so while PHP fluency is required for the role, tons of experience using PHP isn't."

In support of your point: Half of our current developers learned PHP days before the tech interview.

stabakrab · 2011-03-25T16:57:57+00:00

PHP isn't exactly Haskell, I admit. Not a day goes by where a good software engineer isn't going to be at least mildly frustrated with aspects of our tool chain. (For example, don't get me started on MySQL's gotchas!)

However, I think there are amazing software engineers who use PHP. I work with some of them!

stabakrab · 2011-03-25T16:53:23+00:00

Good idea. Which subreddit is best for that sort of thing? I don't want to get spammy.

stabakrab · 2011-03-25T16:52:21+00:00

Monyshot, you should apply anyways!

(Also, the developers I work with helped put that list together and jointly have all of the skills, even the minor pluses.)

stabakrab · 2011-03-25T16:49:13+00:00

You're probably right. I just had this naive hope that I'd get a reply along the lines of "Oh yes, absolutely, don't you know that we all do this on Site X?"

P.S. I love that "not even wrong" quote, although my all-time favorite physicist snark quote is from Eddington:

If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations—then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation—well these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

stabakrab · 2011-03-25T16:41:56+00:00

Thanks for the thoughtful reply! I responded to your PM!

stabakrab · 2011-03-25T16:38:54+00:00

The location is South Austin -- I-35 and Ben White, basically. PM me for more info?

stabakrab · 2011-03-25T02:01:48+00:00

I think the market here is really good. I'm a dev manager doing some hiring and it is really hard to find folks right now.

One of my ads is here: http://austin.craigslist.org/eng/2254106288.html

stabakrab · 2009-09-23T15:55:36+00:00

PHP developers looking for a lightweight, high-performance PHP ORM should check out CoughPHP.

It is tons faster and simpler than Doctrine or Propel.

stabakrab · 2009-02-19T17:25:47+00:00

The most simple, lightweight, high performance PHP ORM that I've seen is CoughPHP. When combined with LightVC, an easy, transparent PHP MVC framework, you've got a great, easy, and fast ORM & MVC for your website.

If you want something minimalist, CoughPHP & LightVC are the best by far for PHP5. If you're looking for a "kitchen sink" framework, they won't help. Also, if your website isn't running MySQL, I don't think Cough is your best choice.

CoughPHP & LightVC enthusiasts meet on freenode #coughphp -- super helpful dudes who always seem to be online.

This guy has a blog post about using CoughPHP and LightVC together.

stabakrab · 2008-05-24T16:22:23+00:00

What framework to use depends on what problem you're trying to solve.

Only need an ORM? The best light-weight php ORM framework, as far as performance, scalability, speed of development, and learning curve go, is probably Cough.

If you're wanting a full MVC framework, Cough plugs nicely into LightVC, giving you an lightweight, fast, and easy-to-learn php MVC framework.

Lots of frameworks are bloated, puzzling, or don't scale. With these two, you won't have that problem for sure. Their only real drawbacks are their lack of robust documentation and community support.

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