Using browser default CSS, hyperlinks are displayed with a blue underline. Suppose you are writing a website and instead, you wish the default to be bold red font, with no underline. What would you put in your stylesheet?

Now suppose that when the user hovers their cursor above the hyperlink you want the text to turn green. What would you add to your stylesheet?

Suppose you have two CSS rule sets defined .bold {font-weight: bold; } and .bordered {border: 2px solid #CCC;} Write an additional rule-set that selects elements that are both .bold and .bordered and changes the font color to red?

Describe a schema (or classes) to power an online restaurant reservation system. Describe the tables and the relationships beween the tables.

This system should allow a user to reserve a table at a restaurant for a certain time period and a certain party size.

It should allow the restauranteur to configure the system to describe their restaurant and manage reservations.

Think http://opentable.com

Under what circumstances do the following two methods of binding a click event to a paragraph not behave the same:

$("p").live("click", function() { alert("p clicked") })

$("p").click(function(){ alert("p clicked") });

How would you write a selector that selects the following

1. All the elements on a page
2. All the paragraphs with class "big"
3. The first paragraph with the div with id "main"
4. The odd rows of a table
5. The input elements of type "textarea"

Explore the basics of the display attribute:

1. What are the possible values for the DISPLAY attribute?
2. What's the default value?
3. What the difference between display:none and visibility:hidden?

Explore the basics of the position attribute:

1. What are the possible values for the POSITION attribute?
2. What's the default value?
3. How does the browser decide where to position absolute elements?

Explain with the following files and directories in a basic Django project do:

mysite/
    manage.py
    mysite/
        __init__.py
        settings.py
        urls.py
        wsgi.py

Complete the following Django model to illustrate how a manufacturer can make many different types of cars.

Give manufacturer a name, founding date and a country.

Give car a name, cost, engine capacity and color. Assume that the manufacturer makes cars in only {red, green, blue and pink}.

class Manufacturer(models.Model):
    # A car manufacturer

class Car(models.Model):
    # A type of car

What's the difference between HTTP GET and POST? When would you choose to use one rather than the other?

What are HTTP request headers? Explain the purpose of the following headers:

• Cache-Control
• Cookie
• Content-Type

What are HTTP response headers? Explain the purpose of the following headers:

• Date
• Expires
• X-Forwarded-For

What are HTTP cookies? Explain how cookies work and how they are represented in the HTTP protocol.

Explain the following terms:

• Session cookie
• Persistent cookie
• Third party cookie

What are HTTP response status codes? Explain what the following codes mean

• 401
• 404
• 200
• 301

What is a good way to fetch the contents of a web page in Perl, given a URL?

Imagine a scenario where your website's database can only handle 1,000 queries every second, and your traffic has grown enough to product 1,500 queries per second at peak times.

What can you do to deal with this problem in the short term? What's a long term solution to deal with ongoing growth in traffic?

What is load balancing? Describe three different types of load balancing techniques? What problems can load balancing solve? What problems can it introduce?

Write a jQuery plugin to display a list of images in a Lightbox.

Replace the string The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog with the string The1 quick2 brown3 fox4 jumps5 over6 the7 lazy8 dog9.

A user types the following URL into their browser: http://www.foo.com/bar.php

Explain in detail how this would cause a page to appear in their browser, with images, interactive elements (Ajax), styled paragraphs of text etc.

What is a generic view in Django? What generic views ship with Django? What do they do?

Explain what the following Django model code does? What's the relationship between topping and pizza?

class Topping(models.Model):
    # ...

class Pizza(models.Model):
    # ...
    toppings = models.ManyToManyField(Topping)

What is a signal in Django? Where might you use one? What's the difference between send() and send_robust()? When might you use one over the other?

What does the following code do? What's another way of doing the same thing?

from django.core.signals import request_finished
from django.dispatch import receiver

@receiver(request_finished)
def my_callback(sender, **kwargs):
    print "Request finished!"

Complete the following Django form to include:

• A subject with a maximum length of 100 characters
• An optional, boolean, cc_myself field
• A sender field that will be validated as a correctly formatted email address

from django import forms

class ContactForm(forms.Form):
    message = forms.CharField()

Describe a schema (or classes) to power an online car rental system. Describe the tables and the relationships beween the tables.

Describe the MVC design pattern and how you might use it in practice.

Implement it.

Given the following HTML:

<div class=”article”>
<h1>Buddy In-law</h1>
<p>A friend of a friend of yours. <a href=”https://www.google.com/?q=someone">Someone</a> you have yet to meet, but is friends with your friend. Someone you share a mutual friend with. Someone you share a mutual buddy with.</p>
</div>

How would you:
1. Change the paragraph font to Verdana?
2. Change the font size of the heading to a 20px
3. Change the font color of all anchors in article paragraphs to pink. Change the hover state color to red
4. Justify the paragraph text
5. Make the whole article 600px wide and center the heading