Hey SO, I recently had two phone interviews for a Junior C++ Engineer position; the first was a general screening interview, the second a more technical one. So far the company has made it clear that while they do want you to be familiar with OOP, specifically knowing a ton of C++ is not required, for example if you mainly did Java, that...
Hi all, What is the best way of scheduling simple batch jobs on windows? My current need is to dump some SVN repositories each night and FTP the dumps to our external FTP side and then e-mail one or more people that the backup has completed/failed. This sounds like the sort of thing I would usually do in a unix script + cron. Is that...
I am a J2EE developer who has worked only in apps that "take input data - store in db - retrieve the same and display" types of application. To move to social media kind of development job, what skills/technologies should I develop ? ...
From my experience, I always find Java developers full-time working for middle/big-size companies. Is it possible for Java developer to find ones path beyond the enterprise? ...
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I don't know if it's worth to change profession from tester into business analyst. Do you have some experiences with such transition? What are ups and downs of such move? Is business analyst more profitable? I would be grateful for any help. ...
I have one year of experience in programming. After getting laid off in cuts I managed to get a job in telecommunications planning. I'm good at my new job and don't want to leave it but I miss programming. I'd like to be able to code in my free time (which is about 4 hours every evening 7 days a week.) I can code pretty well in C#, reas...
Hi , I have written this scheduled job for the ORACLE DB which is run every second. Now in my schedule program what I want to do is to set the frequency to every 5 millisecond. BEGIN sys.dbms_scheduler.create_schedule( repeat_interval =>'FREQ=SECONDLY;INTERVAL=1', start_date => to_date('15:19 09/16/10...
Hi, No doubt, the programmer's job is quite unique: it's creative as you implement new stuff so you can then see and try the results of your efforts. It's challenging as you often have to use different technologies, solve complex problems. It can make you learn a lot if you'd like to be valuable or just interested. It's also quite geeky...
I have a single threaded message listener that listens for the incoming messages.The received messages are persisted in a database as they are recieved. There is a message A and associated message B follows it with a reference it.In Some Odd occurences, B arrives before A. Now in this case, There has to be 3retries after some 'x' equal...
If you had to pick, which would you focus on, if the goal was to find a job the quickest? ...
Hi All, I have set up a cron job for sending emails from my site using php. It was working fine. Today I got one error message like this "/bin/sh: line 1: 29681 Bus error". Could you please tell me what is this bus error and its solutions? Thanks In Advance Rose ...
Hi Im learning C at the moment,I can program a bit in python,Basic and reading allot about C# at the moment. C seems pretty straight forward,what should I learn next? What is a good HLL that could land me a job if I teach myself from books and pdf's and practice everday for the next three years? Im going to college or university next y...
Hi, I have an auction website www.partsupplyonline.com. When an item is bid on and reaches the reserve, it should go into "won" or "sold" in the users account. Instead, it just goes into ended? I have a cron job set up, which closes the auction every 5 minutes, which is wget http://www.partsupplyonline.com/cron/cron1.php >/dev/null Pleas...
Some time ago, I have heard about the Netflix challenge to find a better way to organize recommendations. Do you know about more "challenges" in computer science? What are the prizes? ...
I am giving a job (EDA tool run) to LSF. It is taking a lot of time to finish. I am giving it to a large queue and reserving 20 GB memory. Are there any recommendations to speed this up? Appreciate any help. ...
I want a persistent job scheduler. If I were to write my own job scheduler, it would probably be a restful service with one method: POST /path/to/service HTTP/1.1 Host: myservice.com Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded url=someurl&millis=1000 And the service would hit the given url (method GET) after at least 1000 millisec...
One thing i struggle with is how to measure the job performance for software developers during their annual reviews. I want them to have specific goals they can work towards achieving and be able to see their progress throughout the year and celebrate their individual successes. Most of the goals for developers seem to be related to co...
I have an application which uses Spring 2.5 and Hibernate 3. There's a web application with a presentation layer, a servive layer and a DAO layer, as well as some Quartz jobs sharing the same service and DAO layers. Transactions are initialized in different layers with @Transactional annotations, like this: It led me to a problem ...
This is a subjective question and I know it might be closed, however as there are many good programmers here. I would like to ask you fellow out there, if you were to describe yourself to a potential employers in one sentence/in an elevator pitch, what would be a good catch phrase/hook/interesting point that would attract them to let the...