quote:

Web Portfolio:
http://www.pluswebhost.com/
Designed everything, programmed all but billing area.

http://www.davisopticalinc.com/
Designed, and currently host this website for local client.

http://www. thetordb.com
This website is a work in progress; here's a relatively completed page:

code:

http://www.thetordb.com/NPC/For'Sen_Lorme

(copy paste, not ready for bots). Programmed website in PHP, programmed full-text database search (AJAX), programmed cookie based login system (AJAX), programmed page edit system Wiki style (AJAX). Programmed comment system (AJAX). jQuery was the only framework used.

http://www.sierramoonartwork.com/
Designed, and currently host this website for a local client.

http://www.pluswebhost.com/calc/calc2.html (not the client's website)
Programmed the AJAX calculator with Google Maps integration to calculate distance between two points. Designed this calculator per client specs.

All of my work has been either contractual or personal.

Software Portfolio:
http://codepad.org/2oWQIQD3
http://codepad.org/BlwTf5f8

Resume:
http://imgur.com/9PCCH

Strong Sauce posted:

What kind of jobs are you applying to?

Strong Sauce posted:

Edit:
Just at a quick glance, your entire resume needs to be reorganized and restructured. Particularly, "advanced loops", "logical solutions to problems" are kind of bullshit bullet points and some of those programming skills are not programming skills at all, and are just basic skills. Also your 2nd bullet point under your experience, "Protected code and forms... Not a single attack " sounds really weird. What is wrong with just writing, "Protected sites from malicious attacks such as SQL Inject, XSS vulnerabilities..." etc.

Thanks I'll make some changes. I was using lots of resume writing tips from around the internet. Resume services are expensive for my wife and I at this point in time.

Least of all there's no mention of any algorithms classes you took. Any decent software company (aka the one's you actually want to work for) are going to be looking for some general understanding of algorithms and data structures.

As far as algorithms go, I'm not extremely knowledgeable on the subject. I've taken some college math classes (and did very well) but that's about the extent of my algorithm knowledge.

Also, writing 2 Project Euler programs in C doesn't really demonstrate that you can do actual work in C. I can probably do those examples in any programming language, but that doesn't really show or represent that I'm proficient in C. I suppose it "proves" that you can program but no one knows if you just copy and pasted that code.

I haven't actually used this in any portfolio or resume I've sent out, so this reaffirms my decision. C# is definitely my most knowledgeable programming language thus far, as I have a 2,000+ line application (I know this doesn't mean a whole lot) written in C# that runs wonderfully.

And I think nearly all companies now use some form of version control. What do you use for your sites?

Unfortunately I have absolutely no knowledge of version control.

Ithaqua posted:

I haven't done C since college, but I'd take one look at those and go "Great, he can write unreadable code with useless variable names" and pass.

[edit]
Sorry if that came off as mean! I'm just big on readable code with good, descriptive variable names. I get a kneejerk "gently caress this code" reaction any time I see variables named a, b, and c.

oRenj9 posted:

Just a few things:

Try to avoid negating names, this is more difficult to read than the alternative.

You're using

pre:

!notAPrime

in nearly all of your logic statements, which means that you are really just looking for the opposite of not a prime, which is a prime.

Think long and hard about the logic in this statement. The last part of the statement is completely useless. i is initialized to 2 and is never decremented.

Regarding your resume:

What do you mean by "next-generation" database solutions?
WTF is an "advanced loop"?

Nippashish posted:

I'm really loving // numberToWorkWith should equal 2 to save cycles. If you're going to loop up to 100000 the most important optimization is definitely starting at 2 so you only loop 99999 times to save cycles.

So this post isn't completely useless: your comments are not very clear, for instance these comments

don't actually explain anything. Use i for what calculations? What work are you going to do with these vars? What is numberToWorkWith used for?

The most useful comment in your code is this one:

Contra Duck posted:

You can assume the people reading your code are other developers who know the syntax and standard idioms of the language. Comments like these:

Are completely unnecessary and only serve to clutter up the code and make it more difficult to read.

etcetera08 posted:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3471257

dancavallaro posted:

This, combined with the fact that you've never used version control, tells me that you need to spend some time learning about the various tools and technologies out there. I'm not saying you have to hop on every bandwagon that comes along and learn the hottest new Ruby framework and NoSQL flavor of the day, but it really looks like you need to get out of your PHP/MySQL cave and learn what else is out there.

Want to develop a website in PHP? Check out CodeIgniter or Symfony. Full-text search? Check out Lucene. Cookie-based login system? Yeah, just use your framework for that.

Seriously, getting stuff like that right is hard, and there's no reason not to use existing solutions that have already been tested. I registered a few accounts all with the same password, and they all had the same PWTHETORDB value in the cookie. At 40 bytes it's probably SHA-1, but it looks like you're probably salting the passwords with a common salt. But that doesn't really matter, because I can keep trying account names by changing THETORDB in the cookie until I run across one that uses the same password as my original account, and now I'm logged in as them.

dancavallaro posted:

That's even worse than I thought; that means that I only need to find a username where the password matches just the first 4 characters(!!!!!) of mine in order to log in as them. Seriously, you should use a framework for stuff like this, there is no glory in reinventing cookie-based auth yourself, even if you get it right, which you won't.

I'll give you some more comments in a bit.

hieronymus posted:

Here is the problem:

code:

$password_array = str_split($password, 2);
$hash = sha1($password_array[0] . $salt . $password_array[1]);

The problem is str_split($password, 2)...

Say password is 'hello_world'.

Resulting data is:
$password[0] = he
$password[1] = ll
$password[2] = o_
$password[3] = wo
$password[4] = rl
$password[5] = d

$hash = sha1("he" . $salt . "ll")... You're throwing away the rest of the password.

dancavallaro posted:

That's still terrible, because you're still using the same salt all the time.

quote:

$saltSeed = mt_rand();
$salt = md5($saltSeed);
$password = mysql_real_escape_string(stripslashes($_POST['password']));
$hash = sha1($salt . $password);
$username = mysql_real_escape_string(stripslashes($_POST['username']));
$email = mysql_real_escape_string(stripslashes($_POST['email']));

dancavallaro posted:

This is still wrong, because you're still putting the user's password hash in the cookie to be used for auth. This is really no better than putting the plaintext password in the cookie -- if I am able to intercept a user's hash from their cookie, sure I can't use it to log in using the login form, but I can just as easily use it to get a session as that user by sticking it in the cookie. Intercepting usernames and password hashes from your users' cookies is trivial if your site has any XSS vulnerabilities, which is another reason you should be using a good framework which will make output escaping trivially easy.

We could go back and forth like this for a loooong time. I'm not trying to make you feel bad -- this stuff is hard, and even people who are really good at this stuff can get it wrong. I hope you're starting to see why it's a terrible idea to try and implement security/crypto-related code yourself.

quote:

Portfolio:
http://d3spreadsheet.net/
http://www.pluswebhost.com/
http://www.pluswebhost.com/calc/calc.html
http://www.sierramoonartwork.com/
http://www.pluswebhost.com/~loidasfl/
http://www.pluswebhost.com/~loidasfl/saladmasterinreno.com

Resume:
http://imgur.com/DnJpg

Code Sample:
http://pastebin.com/FxMETuqH

Ithaqua posted:

"Entry level algorithm design"? What's an entry level algorithm?

Also, why do you have "Visual Studio" as a programming skill? And GUI design?
PHP and MySQL are two separate skills.

Also, you have typos. Like the word "processer".

pigdog posted:

I think your sites look pretty good. It does look like you know your way around web design and PHP.

Commenting from a user perspective, perhaps try to use less combinations of font and font size on d3spreadsheet.com. When hovering over an item, I could count some 9 or 10 different fonts/font sizes on the screen in cells, headers etc depending on the context, while it would look more professional and comfortable bringing that number down to 4-6.

Looking at the code sample, I can immediately notice the copy-pasting within the SQL. I'm sure it works, which is the most important thing, but for good reasons it would look more professional if you'd find a way to assemble the same SQL string in code without copy-pasting. You should always strive not to copy-paste and write the same thing twice (or maybe twice, but certainly not thrice), as every time you'd need to change that functionality, you'd need to change it in several places. The bigger the codebase, the easier it is to miss some of them and introduce bugs. So even in this case, given that it's the one code sample people will judge your code by, try to remove the copy-paste from within the SQL.

csammis posted:

These aren't interchangable - did you originally mean MySQL when you wrote "entry-level algorithm design"? That'd be misleading as all hell and would _hopefully get called out by an interviewer.

Ithaqua posted:

I'm going to assume that you've already sent your answers off and this is purely academic, not "help me cheat". I'm not going to comment on the PHP (I know fuckall about PHP) or the HTML / jQuery.

5) That's a terrible schema. You have 3 pieces of data: A student, a semester, and a score. You should have a table defining your student, a table containing your semesters, and a table that contains a student ID, a semester ID, and a score. You need to brush up on the concept of database normalization

9)


Nothing you wrote there answers the question asked. It sounds like you're talking out your rear end, or maybe you're a spambot and the text was randomly generated.

Keep it simple. Explain the purpose (separation of presentation and business logic), and then give a brief explanation of what the model, view, and controller's purposes are.

Ithaqua posted:

You'll probably get better answers here.

Stoph posted:

I saw this post on Hacker News when it first came out. It's definitely helped shift my views in a good way. This article is a must-read for all of us underpaid software engineers.

Ithaqua posted:

Your "portfolio" page means nothing. It's screenshots. If an employer cares about a portfolio at all, they want to see code. Put some stuff on github or codeplex. The snippets of code you have a) aren't very good (at least the C# stuff), and B) are hard to read.

greatZebu posted:

Also the initial landing page doesn't add anything and you seem to have some stray "Testing" text on the page. If you click the "About Me" link, nothing happens (at least in Chrome), so no one is going to contact you that way. I would also recommend cutting down on the exclamation points.

Mystery Machine posted:

So, I've been having a lot of fun designing a website for someone. I've been using jQuery, which I just taught myself, to do it, and I've made it so that, using some simple scripts, she only needs to upload pictures correctly to her hosting, and the script does everything else for her (details aren't too important).

Anyway, I've found this kind of programming pretty fun. I'm still a student, but I was wondering, what kinds of jobs are out there that involve web scripting? I have a friend who told me it was a pretty dumb idea to want to get into stuff like this. Is that true? I'd love to keep learning more of this stuff, but I want to make sure I'm not learning a skill that could be easily exported out of country, or something.

lmao zebong posted:

As a new grad I applied to probably about 30 jobs, did roughly 15 phone interviews, 4 inperson interviews and received two offer sheets. This was during a span of about a month and a half from late December 2012 to the end of January this year. I have no idea if that was more or less than average, almost everyone who I keep in contact with from school seemed to apply to a couple places and then give up and are currently working the jobs they had before graduating.

This was in the Bay Area, which is pretty flush with available development positions. I'm sure it's very different in other areas of the US, but if you have experience and have a halfway decent resume you should be fine at least getting interviews.

greatZebu posted:

A few quick tips:

1, Git isn't an acronym. Only capitalize the first letter.
2. It's a lot better to give specifics for things like "increase the amount of customer revenue" if at all possible. If you can be more specific about what you did than "maintenance" and "improvement", that's even better.
3. Your github project isn't in good enough shape to use as a portfolio. At a bare minimum it needs a readme file to explain what it's supposed to do and where the relevant code is. I clicked through several files that didn't have much in the way of code, then I found one file that seemed like it had the bulk of the application in it, but it was full of stuff like this:

code:

    class AgilityPackWebsite
    {
        string _website;
        public string Website
        {
            get
            {
                return this._website;
            }
            set
            {
                this._website = value;
            }
        }
    }

This is a problem because (1) why does this class even exist, it's just a string (2) the name of the class is nonsensical and seems to be a verb rather than a noun, and (3) website is a pretty bad name for a variable anyway--is it a url, html, some packed representation of a site, or what? I don't say this to be discouraging or mean, but to encourage you to do some thinking about your code from the perspective of someone coming to it from the outside and trying to use it to evaluate what kind of coder you are.

tk posted:

I would not even bother applying.

But if you do, be sure to ask what their opinions are on red, orange, green, purple, yellow, or pretty much any color other than blue.

Cicero posted:

This company sounds terrible.

Strong Sauce posted:

First I would say, move skill below experience. Rename Relevant Experience to "Experience." Rename "Samples of Expertise" to "Projects" or something like that.

Compact the "skillset" list more as it takes up way too much space. And why does C# get called C# coding while no other programming languages are labelled as such, e.g. "PHP coding?"

"In contract to.." means? You should write so that there is some clarity as to what you did. I guess this means you're working as a contractor with Lockhart Phillips?

Use bullet points with "action verbs" to describe the activities you did at each job. Right now you have everything mashed together into a paragraph and the first few sentences begins with the world "Created" It would also help if you could show numbers like, "Sped up site by X%" or something in some points.. but only if you can actually describe how you got to those numbers.

For example instead of "Created C# software..." as your first sentence. Convert everything to bullet points and your first item should be, "Migrated an entire 5000 page e-commerce website written in C# (or ASP.NET? I am not really familiar but I always though the web stuff was ASP.NET?) to a new reliable webhost without FTP information" (I'm not actually sure what you mean by "without FTP information so you should probably clarify that or remove it") Same for every other sentence in that block.

Think about it like this. Skillset is important, but your experience is way more important. You chose to give every skill its own line, but for your experience you just write out sentences that start off with the word, 'created'? Experience should take up the largest portion of your resume (because you're suppose to be experienced and all that).

Also why did you change your resume format from your resume you made a year ago?

Strong Sauce posted:

bigquote

Strong Sauce posted:

Cicero posted:

You've been majoring in Computer Science and Engineering since 2009 and don't know anything about algorithms or data structures? Really?

Scaevolus posted:

He was asking for an in-place partition function, like in Quicksort.

Ithaqua posted:

Then don't apply for jobs as a .NET developer until you do. It's fundamental.

baquerd posted:

It's 2013 and you don't have a cell phone? I can understand not having a smart phone perhaps, but no cell at all? You've really damaged your chances with this company because it sounds like you're just weird, and showing up in shorts when they're already wondering what the hell is up with you is not a good decision.

Go get a cell-phone. You can get one with texting capability on a pre-paid plan for less than $50, and pay less than $5 a month if you hardly use it.