I'm currently 19 and studying Bachelor of IT. Like any programmer I spend a lot of time pursuing pet projects. Some of them are based around promising ideas, some are just because I want to try them. Many projects end up on hold as more important things come up, or I come up with a better idea, and I feel a little guilty for pursuing it...
When you landed your first job programming: 1) Which language was it in? How well did you know that language? Did you know it well enough to write a book on it, or did you barely know how to do "hello world"? I imagine most people graduate from a CS program knowing one language pretty well, and a few other languages just kind of well. I...
How are people finding jobs in today's job market, where there are many applicants per position as opposed to years ago when it was the other way around? ...
Hi, I have an interview for Software Engineering in QA Position role and wanted some pointer's from preparation point of view and also job description include technologies like XML, XSD, WSDL, and SOAP technologies and so what all topics should I put more stress during preparation process. I would really appreciate if someone can prov...
I am currently in my senior year at the Citadel, and I am a computer Science Major with a Management Information Systems Minor(totally useless, here atleast!) I have recently put together my resume, and would like to start getting it out and about. Unfortunately I go to school 3000 miles away from my hometown where I will be moving when ...
Hi, Recently, I am giving many interviews as Software Engineer, am pretty much comfortable with the technology side when it comes to answering questions like What are your Strength and What are your weakness, I have kind of hard time giving them answers. So my question is how can we handle questions like : What are your Strengths ?...
I currently work as a backed developer but over the years have developed an interest in usability and user experience. What would you recommend as steps of: Improving my knowledge and skills Getting a job in usability/ux ...
Hi, I have got a new job, and in this job I need to go through other people's code to understand the application. What are the skills which I must acquire to accomplish the task of reading and understanding other people's code? What best-practices should I follow while reading and understanding other people's code? Which books or on...
Very often in job offers one is asked to provide some 'example code' together with the CV. I found it kind of difficult do decide which code is a good choice. Of cause it has to be meaningful code but on the other hand short enough to get a quick overview. It has to be well-documentated but not filled up with messy comments. Okay, sure...
I am in my senior year, and I am preparing for some interviews. I am wondering what I should review, and what I should prepare for when I'm getting ready for these interviews. What types of questions are asked during interviews? What key points and suggestions can you give me that might help me?! ...
Hi, My question is relevant to this post, "Dealbreakers for Programming job", which mentioned what are the kind of things you look while interviewing for job and there was one post of Employer paying less than market rate than one need to leave the job, now for Startups they do not pay market rate and so does it mean that we should not...
Hi, This question is somewhat related to other posts which I found on Stackoverflow but not exactly and so am prompted to ask about it. I know we must ask for Data-Structures and Algorithms but what specific data-structures or Algorithms or other CS Concepts should be asked while interviewing Sr. Software Engineering Fulltime Positio...
Finances are making me take an extended period off of my college education. In my current state, I don't feel fully qualified to be employed by an iPhone software company. While I work on getting things back together, I'd like to try an work for a software company for free in my local area (I'm going to college out of state and have to m...
I am building a web application in asp.net MVC and am thinking how I can get certain conditional tests to happen regularly. Currently I am planning on having a page such as /utility/runJobs that will have a function in it that will test the whole site for dates meeting certain conditions etc.. I would then trigger this page from a serv...
Does anyone think it is silly for interviewers to expect potential Software Engineers specializing in application development or UI to know hexadecimal arithmetic? ...
Hi. I applied for a job for Asp.net developer with 1 year experience there they mentioned one item of the description to Interpret written business requirements and technical specification documents. So what exactly is this?? ...
I may have a situation in the future to take a less stressful job, which pays great and has excellent benefits, while working with old technology. Not Cobol old, but a generation back from where I am today. This is a double-edged sword for me. I have never felt comfortable in dev shops. It doesn't appeal to me for some reason. I enj...
Regarding the mentoring and guiding of fresh college graduates during their first professional job as a software engineer in industry: What all areas we need to keep in mind while mentoring and guiding newly hired software engineer who has no industry experience in past ? ...
I have just recently graduated college with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and have joined the other millions in search for a job. I have took up, Assembly, Java and Scheme in college and have taught myself, PHP, HTML, CSS, Android and JavaScript on the side. My part-time job right now, I serve as a part-time web designer an...
Is this the technique to run a background job every x minutes: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.threadpool.queueuserworkitem%28VS.71%29.aspx So would I load this in the global.asax? ...