Posted on March 26th, 2008 by Buu Nguyen
Finally, I could manage some time writing up the follow-up post about other interesting features of db4o, specifically about client-server feature and transaction & concurrency support. You can read the article here: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/oop_db4o_part_2.aspx.
This write-up also gives me a chance to learn about some cool new features of db4o 7.2 (currently development version) such as LINQ integration, transparent activation and transparent persistence. These are really big changes from the previous version I tried (6.3). Hope that I can find some time writing about all these features. But don’t wait for me though, just go ahead and try them yourself…
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Posted on September 5th, 2007 by Buu Nguyen
I will be attending the Microsoft Tech·Ed SEA 2007 event at Malaysia from Sept 10-13. According to the website’s statistic, not a lot of my blog’s readers come from the South East Asia area; but if any of you will attend this event, send me message to my email address (see About Me), we might meet over there.
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Posted on August 19th, 2007 by Buu Nguyen
I can hardly believe that there is any Java developer who never reads a Java book, or “agile developer” who never reads a book on XP, Scrum… Unfortunately, there are just so many many of those. In fact, many people I know/interview have very fundamental gaps in their knowledge and in most cases I discover that it is partly due to the fact that they never spend time learning things from books. Reasons provided often are: not enough time, internet resources are more than enough etc. In most situations, I don’t think it’s a good mindset to develop software. Read more »
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Posted on June 6th, 2007 by Buu Nguyen
I can’t tell you enough about how much surprised I was when some developers applying for senior .NET development position, when being interviewed by me, could not answer very fundamental questions about a specific technology or programming language as well as were not aware of any trends in the field. What I found out was that usually this had something to do with their attitude towards “learning on the job”. Read more »
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Posted on April 26th, 2007 by Buu Nguyen
I’ve been interviewing many .NET development developers lately and one of the most surprising things is that many candidates, both junior and senior level, cannot correctly answer questions which I consider very basic. I compile a short list of such questions below, hopefully it maybe helpful for you as interviewees or interviewers. Read more »
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