Trials in Snake Charming

I wrote my first working php program!  It’s a simple conversation program that gives four different responses depending on input.  I got to scratch the surface of php’s rich string handling functions.  They made writing a function like this super efficient.

Depending on where I end up at the end of my job search I may end up writing a lot of php so this was a great exercise! Regarding the subject line, LAMP refers to the common development stack of Linux, Apache, MySql, and Php.

Hello friends! I realized it’s been a couple weeks since my last post and decided to take a breather from my job hunting tasks. I interviewed with a great ad firm in the DC area this past week and met some really cool guys. A big shout out to Kevin, Chris and Heather for your hospitality and interest in yours truly.

I was lucky enough to put a lot of work in on jquery and ajax over the last few days. Part of my interview was an onsite code challenge where I basically had to write a url shortener like bit.ly, and incorporate ajax. Ajax lets you submit data to other urls in your app without refreshing the webpage. It’s great for submitting form data. It is still a work in progress but you can see it in my github repo at https://github.com/HamboneWilson.