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I am looking for a bit of advice on two counts:
1. Where are the best places to find a good developer, I have an ad going in the local paper but not sure if it will bring results.
2. As I am not a developer myself (HTML only) how best to evaluate how good the candidates are?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I want to make sure we get a good person!
Cheers
John
Some ideas - ask around; use a recruitment agency; post the job online (in the commercial exchange here at WW for example)
>2. As I am not a developer myself (HTML only) how best to evaluate how good the candidates are?
Ask for examples and for them to explain how they did it. Look at their past roles. You’ll soon get an idea of their knowledge.
-Matt
Ask them what the difference between a datagrid and a datalist. (datagird allows minimal layout formatting - it creates an HTML table for you, datalist allows complete formatting control through the use of templates where you specify the HTML to be used)
Ask them how you can programmatically alter the output of a datagrid/datalist. (the (on)ItemDataBound event allows this)
Ask them what .ascx files are for. (User controls)
Ask them what you need to do in IIS to get an asp.net application to run. (create a virtual directory that points to the app and set it to run as an application)
Ask them where they normally store connection strings (95% use the web.config file)
These are very simple basic questions anyone with a year of experience should have no problem at all answering, yet they're also related to tasks they'll be doing repeatedly.
Cheers, I'd better print that out to take into the interview with me!
Cheers
John
