Fun with interviews

Thursday, Jan 31, 2002

Next time you're interviewing someone for a web development position and you wonder if they're overselling themselves, pick a random letter of the alphabet, and prepend it to 'html.' Ask the candidate how familiar they are with (for example) 'rhtml' and, if they claim any skill, ask them for an on-the-spot code example.

Of course this could backfire, if they actually do know it, and you didn't think it existed.

For you employers out there, here's a little cheat sheet. Let me know if I missed any:

dhtml
jhtml
phtml
shtml
vhtml
xhtml

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