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 the rest of this entry »
I’ve just come across Jeff Atwood’s post about design patterns. A little bit dated, and I hope he has changed his mind since then, because what he said in the post is ridiculous.
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I’ve come across the latest paper from Ivar Jacobson (yes, one of the “Three Amigos” who invented the RUP and UML) about development processes (Enough of Processes: Let’s Do Practices Part I and Part II) and so much as I admire Mr. Jacobson and his contribution to the software industry, I just do not find anything he wrote in this latest essay new or provoking, especially to those who have been working with agile processes like XP, or Scrum. Read the rest of this entry »
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 the rest of this entry »
Take a look at this Vista simulator, an Silverlight application. Isn’t it cool? (Okay, okay, Flash can do the same thing, but you have to admit that Silverlight is a new baby child, yet it can do really cool stuff like this one.)
