Applying for a job? What we like to see
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WordPress: Modify Native Calendar Widget for Event Post Types
How to modify WordPress’s native calendar widget to show custom event post types by start date, with event links displayed through PHP, CSS, and jQuery.
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Why Facebook Platform faltered: missing developer payments, no sponsored feed placements, and tying broad account access to Connect.
Read the postPHP: Does "big-o" complexity really matter?
Benchmarking four PHP autocomplete implementations shows how sorting and state/prefix indexing reduce search time and improve responsiveness on a 45,000-school dataset.
Read the postSymfony2: Logging users in programatically with Doctrine2 and FOSUserBundle
How Doctrine2 proxy entities can break Symfony2 and FOSUserBundle programmatic logins, and how a joined repository query preserves the user ID.
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