5 Answers to common (and difficult) interview questions

After several posts focused on product release, I finally have some time to write about life as a Developer, and to answer some questions asked by my (few) readers. The most common questions I receive are about job interviews. Competition from other Developers is getting higher every day, and Companies are, understandably, getting picky, looking for Professionals who can “tick all the boxes”.

The difficulty in passing an interview, however, is not just showing that you can write code. Ironically, that’s the easy part. The difficult questions come later, when the technical interview is over, and are meant to test your personality. People who spend most of their time “talking” to machines can, sometimes, have a hard time answering human-related questions, therefore it becomes vital to prepare some answers upfront. [Continue reading…]

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Awards/Badges for Vanilla Forums (RC1) is available!

It took longer than I thought, but the Badges/Awards Plugin for Vanilla Forums 2.0 is now in RC1 stage. This means that Beta testing phase was completed for the existing features, and the plugin is now ready. Latest version includes many bug fixes, an improved User Interface and the ability of exporting and importing Awards and related data with just a few clicks. Also, plugin comes with a set of pre-configured Awards and Classes, to help you getting started with your Community. To view a full list of plugin’s current and upcoming features, please visit the Awards Plugin page in the shop.

More good news: Release Discount!

To celebrate this important release, you can avail of 10% discount on the regular price by using the coupon code awds-10-0513. The code is valid for the first ten orders of the plugin, and it expires on the 15/05/2013, so make sure you get your licence quickly!

Some screenshots

As they say, pictures are worth a thousand words, so here are some screenshots from latest version, showing some of plugin’s great features. The target was to make something that looked great and worked great, and I think we got it!

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Awards/Badges for Vanilla Forums (Preview Release) has been released!

Kind of a late update, as the Preview Release was distributed on 07/04/2013 to the Users who registered their interest in becoming early adopters. Just a couple of days passed, and I already received tons of valuable feedback from them. … Continue reading

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Vanilla Badges – Update

Due to an issue beyond my control, I could not meet the deadline for Preview Release for Vanilla Awards (Badges). The release is now scheduled after Easter, on 06/04/2013. I will use the additional time to fix some issues I … Continue reading

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Vanilla Badges Plugin – New preview images

As we are getting closer to the pre-release, I finally have some time to adjust the look and feel of the (many) User Interfaces of the plugin. I took a couple more screenshots and added them to the gallery in … Continue reading

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Badges Plugin for Vanilla Forums is coming!

Vanilla Awards Announcemente Post

It took a lot of time and effort, but the first version of the Badges/Awards Plugin for Vanilla Forums 2.0 is coming out soon! This plugin was developed following the requests and feedback of several Users, and it has be … Continue reading

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New update for Post Scheduler plugin!

I’m happy to announce that now Post Scheduler plugin also delay the delivery notifications of New Discussions to the scheduled date and time. It wasn’t easy to implement such feature on both Vanilla 2.0 and 2.1b, as none of them … Continue reading

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Post Scheduler and Hot Threads Plugins have been updated

As indicated in the title, the following Plugins for Vanilla Forums have been updated. Please download the latest version to make sure you get all the new features and bug fixes. Post Scheduler Fixed bug in filtering of Scheduled Discussions. … Continue reading

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Apology – Content removed due to poor quality

This post is an apology to all the readers for having published a post, now removed, which was not constructive and contained poor quality content and that upset one of our readers. The purpose of this blog is sharing experiences … Continue reading

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Post Scheduler and Hot Threads Plugins for Vanilla 2.0/2.1 are now available

It was a busy week, and I’m happy to announce that two new plugins for Vanilla Forums are now available. Post Scheduler allows you to publish a Post (Discussion) at a later time, thus freeing you from the burden of … Continue reading

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