Never forget this mantra

Every good book on software engineering tells you something like that: “If your code doesn’t work, chances are 95% that it’s your fault”. But it’s easy to forget when you’re debugging for a couple of hours or days. This is why problem-solving questions are popular in technical interviews. Can you distance away from the problem, [...]

Making assertions against database data

I want to share what I’ve done working on my current project to verify data in a database. The application we’re developing relying on SOAP messages exchange where the messages contain information to be written in datasource (DB2, MSSQL, Postgres, AS/400 etc.) Yeah we’re using them all.
You can consider this as a mappping SOAP(Business document) [...]

Taming the Technical Interview

In this post I would like to share some ideas, book titles and links on technical interviews. The post is intended to be useful for interviewers as well as for interviewees. I talk here about interviews for a `software engineer’ position. I suggest that you either want to get a new valuable member for your [...]