From time to time I’m on the employer side of a job interview for software development positions and similar. It is certainly an interesting experience. But it would be much more fun when the candidates came a little prepared. So here are a couple of things to ponder when you are heading for an interview: [...]
I am at the beginning of a new project right now. Since it involves a lot of stuff I don’t know nothing about I have to do a lot of reading. And while I was reading these pieces of documentation with varying degrees of quality I realized that there are 4 kinds of documentation. The [...]
This is not a joke! I am serious, I like SQL for the following reasons: SQL is declarative, which as a side effect means there are now corner cases hidden in if … then … else constructs. In practice this means, that once a SQL statement is working for a couple of cases, it is [...]