O/T : Looking for an entry level LAMP developer for contract work.

[Jerry Snitselaar]

On Wed Jul 29 15, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 22:25:24 -0700
> Jerry Snitselaar <dev at snitselaar.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed Jul 29 15, Steve Litt wrote:
> > > On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 20:30:31 -0700
> > > Sesso <sesso at djsesso.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > "Companies should focus a little less on buzzwords, and a lot more
> > > > on someone's ability/desire to learn, ability to think critically,
> > > > and ablility to solve problems.”
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I have a hard time finding candidates with all 3 of the above. I
> > > > have met many that have a strong desire to learn but lack problem
> > > > solving skills. Now for a shared hosting company, this is fine.
> > > > Dedicated/Cloud infra. won’t work out.
> > > > 
> > > > jason
> > > 
> > > What are both of you meaning by "problem solving skills?" What,
> > > exactly, would the work of someone with "problem solving skills"
> > > look like?
> > > 
> > > How does "problem solving skills" differ from "thinking critically?"
> > > 
> > > I'm not asking out of idle curiosity, this is actually part of what
> > > I do.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > SteveT
> > 
> > I agree they probably mostly overlap, but when I think of problem
> > solving I think of skills specific to the position. 
> 
> > Most likely in the interviews the person
> > will be asked "A customer's system has paniced and they've sent you a
> > vmcore. What do you do?"
> 
> To me, the preceding question is part problem solving skills, and part
> subject matter expertise (which is info that can be learned quickly).
> I'd say the vmcore part of the question is subject matter expertise. I'd
> never heard of vmcore, so I looked it up, and it appears to be a kind
> of core dump, interpretable by various utilities, primarily in the
> Redhat and OpenSuSE worlds. If the applicant came from the Debian
> world, s/he might not know about vmcore, but 10 minutes of Googling
> shows this pretty complete explanation:
> 
> https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH69923.html

Nothing Redhat or SuSE specific about it: 

https://packages.debian.org/stable/crash
https://packages.debian.org/stable/kdump-tools

The Kexec/Kdump facility is in the upstream kernel.

If interested, better info on the crash utility: 

https://people.redhat.com/anderson/crash_whitepaper/



Jerry