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My interview questions when hiring a front-end / back-end / whatever developer at Spatie original
I just read this nice blog post that contains a few tips on how to interview a Laravel developer. When hiring someone at Spatie, I usually tend to get a feel if a candidate is passionate about our field of work. I ask questions like: Who are the people you feel you can learn from? What blogs are you…
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Sit Down with Freek Van der Herten
- submitted by Bert De Swaef
Here's a fun interview I did with Bert.
Solving an Array Reduce Interview Question in PHP
Here's Matt Staufer live coding some cool array / collection stuff
Geeking Out Over PHP
I was recently interviewed on my journey in PHP by the good folks at Kong. During this session you'll also see me demoing Ray.
What is a binary tree and why would I ever want to reverse it
Senior CEO Frederick Vanbrabant helps you to answer this horrible interview question.
You have probably already heard the horror stories of code interviews where they ask you to reverse a binary tree on a whiteboard. (if not check this blog post that I profoundly disagree with). Well, a few days ago I was in that exact situation. And I had no idea what the interviewer was talking about. So what are these binary trees and why is it so critical that you know how to inverse them? Let’s find out.
Read more [frederickvanbrabant.com]
My interview on the Laravel podcast
In season 3 of the Laravel podcast Matt Stauffer interviews people in the Laravel community. I had the pleasure of being the guest on the latest episode.
You can listen to the entire thing here: http://www.laravelpodcast.com/db8ee53b
An interview with Jef, Spatie's account manager original
My colleague Jef, who handles accounts at Spatie, recently was interviewed by Viraj Khatavkar. Read it to learn some interesting tidbits on how our company is being run.
A thousand best replies on the Laracasts forum
On the Laravel Daily blog Povilas Korop published an interview with Bobby Bouwmann. In the past two years Bobby earned almost a thousand best reply awards, an amazing accomplishment.
In recent years, Laracasts has become a no.1 resource for learning Laravel. Also, there’s a really active discussion forum on the website, so we decided to chat with one of the most active members there. Bobby Bouwmann has almost 1000 “Best Reply” awards on the forum, which is a huge number. So what is it like to be so active on Laracasts? Let’s find out.
http://laraveldaily.com/bobby-bouwmann-lessons-1000-best-replies-laracasts/
An interview on Laravel and PHP original
A few days ago I was interviewed by Atif Shahab, PHP community manager at Cloudways, on Laravel and PHP.
10 Years of Git: An Interview with Git Creator Linus Torvalds
So I'd like to stress that while it really came together in just about ten days or so, it wasn't like it was some kind of mad dash of coding. The actual amount of that early code is actually fairly small, it all depended on getting the basic ideas right. And that I had been mulling over for a while before the whole project started. I'd seen the problems others had. I'd seen what I wanted to avoid doing.http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/185-jennifer-cloer/821541-10-years-of-git-an-interview-with-git-creator-linus-torvalds
The source code manager to build git was... git.
