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Measuring LAMP Competency?
An anonymous reader writes "Our company is getting ready to hire a number of programmers. While the majority of the prospective candidates do have good-looking resumes, we are looking to see if we can get some clear metrics in the assessment process. After a little research we have learned that there is a well-established PHP + MySQL training and certification process, and some of the candidates are already certified. There is also a candidate with a good portfolio, a lot of experience, and no certification. Most of the applicants also have some college/university science-related education. So our goal is to be able to somehow measure LAMP overall competency as well as basic computer science concepts such as BNF, data normalization, OOP, MVC, etc. How do Slashdot readers go about this kind of characterization?"
Why BNF?
I think he is referring to Boyce-Codd Normal Form, a level of database normalization, as opposed to Backus-Naur Form, a way of describing context-free grammars.
Perhaps he accidentally dropped the C in the acronym. Although, judging from my CS classes, this is a common confusion.
Which part of that, specifically, do you find offensive?
It's not offensive so much as funny.
You don't, by chance, do any web programming do you? If so, what's the URL? Just curious is all...
-B
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There's nothing wrong with that...
It just HTTP-redirects you to the URL in the s variable of the query string. Are you worried that someone will change the value and -gasp- be redirected to a page of their choosing? They already have an address bar you know.