https://www.startupcto.com/ 2026-08-01T20:33:25+00:00 https://www.startupcto.com/ https://www.startupcto.com/lib/tpl/scto/images/favicon.ico text/html 2026-08-01T20:31:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/home?rev=1785616292 Welcome to StartupCTO 2 StartupCTO is a collection of my 'notes from the trenches' on the technical aspects of building a successful Internet startup: everything from finding good engineers to creating HTML emails. The tech is biased toward the stacks that I like (LAMP on the backend; HTML5/CSS3/jQuery on the frontend; CentOS and FreeBSD on the servers), but I've tried to include information on the 'softer' side of engineering too. text/html 2026-08-01T20:23:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/people/hr/sample-job-descriptions/home?rev=1785615780 Good Job Descriptions sample-job-descriptions index Writing a Good Job Description There are several keys to writing a good job description, at least for technical roles. * Lead in with what the engineer is going to get out of the role. Try to be specific. Working with the latest technology? Wonderful training or learning opportunities? text/html 2026-08-01T20:15:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/server-tech/centos/adding-formatting-a-new-drive?rev=1785615346 Adding & Formatting a New Drive Under CentOS I always have trouble remembering the magic set of incantations required to add a new drive in CentOS... particularly without rebooting. Here's what I usually do. Note this makes some assumptions: * You want to use LVM so you can expand/contract the size of the disk later. text/html 2026-08-01T19:00:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/about?rev=1785610800 About StartupCTO Welcome! StartupCTO is dedicated to helping technology startups and other small development teams create better software, faster. Building good software quickly is hard, and even companies as large and experienced as Google have trouble with it. text/html 2026-08-01T17:05:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/server-tech/macosx/setting-up-a-socks-proxy-in-mac-osx?rev=1785603930 Setting up a SOCKS proxy in Mac OS X If you're somewhere that has a network that is partly blocked, but allows SSH, or if you are in a coffee shop or something similar and are worried about security, you can setup a SOCKS proxy to route all your traffic via a remote server that you control, and then out onto the Internet. text/html 2026-07-29T18:01:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/server-tech/freebsd/home?rev=1785348090 FreeBSD freebsd index text/html 2026-07-25T06:16:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/templates/user-interface-design-tool-powerpoint?rev=1784960209 User Interface Design Tool (PowerPoint) NOTE - 17 May 2011: Although this Powerpoint template is still good for basic UI design, I now generally recommend using OmniGraffle for wireframes. See Best of Breed Web Development Tools. The SCTO User Interface Design Tool is designed to allow you to quickly create interface mockups of an application (web, desktop or otherwise) that you are building. text/html 2026-07-23T20:19:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/marketing-tech/seo/using-display-none-is-ok?rev=1784837943 Using display: none is OK When doing SEO, there has been a lot of concern about using display:none to hide text in pages. Putting hidden text in pages is generally considered 'bad SEO', but at the same time a lot of dynamic pages use display:none to display pop-overs, tabs, dynamic menus and the like. text/html 2026-07-20T20:55:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/people/hr/good-technical-interview-questions/php-questions?rev=1784580901 PHP Interview Questions Also see the PHP/MySQL Questions and General CS Questions. * What are some of the big differences between PHP4 and PHP5? * What is PEAR? * Is PHP a typed language? Why or why not? * Does PHP pass data by value or reference? What's the difference? * Outline the process for connecting to a MySQL database, walking through connecting, querying data, and getting the return value. What are some of the things that you need to watch out for? text/html 2026-07-20T05:27:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/people/hr/sample-job-descriptions/sysadmin?rev=1784525256 Senior LAMP Sysadmin Sample Job Description NOTE: This is a sample job description for a senior LAMP sysadmin. You are welcome to copy it for your own use, but you should change it to suit your needs. You probably don't need somebody who has all of these capabilities, and you probably want to put in great info about your own organization. text/html 2026-07-20T05:22:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/resources/home?rev=1784524971 Resources resources index text/html 2026-07-19T14:51:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/people/hr/good-technical-interview-questions/home?rev=1784472676 Good Technical Interview Questions This is a list of interview questions for technical people that I've come across. I always appreciate contributions. You'll probably note that I don't provide answers, like most interview questions lists do. This is on purpose: I'm of the opinion that if you can't answer (most of) the questions yourself, you should probably draft a friend/colleague for the technical portion of the interview. good-technical-interview-questions index text/html 2026-07-19T12:14:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/people/hr/good-technical-interview-questions/html-css-questions?rev=1784463283 HTML / CSS Interview Questions HTML * Explain the basic components of a typical webpage, e.g. XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc. From a high level perspective, what is each used for? * What do we use classes and ids for? What's the difference between them? Can you have more than one element with the same class in the DOM? How about more than one ID? text/html 2026-07-19T03:52:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/marketing-tech/google-analytics/campaigns-and-email-tracking?rev=1784433162 Tracking Email Campaigns in Google Analytics You can do basic email campaign tracking via Google Analytics. The featureset isn't nearly as complete as a real email tracking system, but its nice to have it integrated into your website tracking. GA has a set of text/html 2026-07-18T21:08:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.startupcto.com/server-tech/macosx/installing-phpunit-on-mamp?rev=1784408914 Installing PHPUnit on MAMP Installing PHPUnit under MAMP can be a bit of a hassle. Here's what I did to install phpunit 3.6.11 under MAMP Pro 2.0.5. * MAMP, as you may know, has its own versions of PHP, PEAR, etc. These aren't related to the versions that Apple provides with