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 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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Posted on February 13th, 2007 by Buu Nguyen
What Steve Yegge considers the Next Big Language. Sound like
- Ruby + (Java || C# 1.x/2.0)
- (JRuby || Groovy || Ruby.NET) + good_tools (esp. IDE)
- C# 3.0 && dynamic_typing (not just type inference) && more_syntactic_sugar (return multiple values, object-literal syntax for hashmap etc.)
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Posted on February 4th, 2007 by Buu Nguyen
1. The Code is the Design
At university, most of us are taught that the development of a software should go through the following phases: requirement specification, design, construction (or coding), and testing. By gathering system requirements (e.g. from the clients, market researches etc.), analysts would come up with a bunch of functional and supplementary requirement documents, use case model and specifications during the requirement specification phase. Read more »
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Posted on January 31st, 2007 by Buu Nguyen
A nice post by Mark Dominus about design patterns. I include the post here in case the link is modified. You should also read the response by Ralph Johnson and Mark’s follow-up. Read more »
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