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Tuesday Feb 25, 2003

Arguing with Scott Meyers.

If you read the Java blogs, you've probably seen Bill Venners' excellent How to interview a Programmer article by now. If not, check it out. My favorite quote is below:

Scott Meyers: I hate anything that asks me to design on the spot. That's asking to demonstrate a skill rarely required on the job in a high-stress environment, where it is difficult for a candidate to accurately prove their abilities. I think it's fundamentally an unfair thing to request of a candidate.

This one is a close second:

Bruce Eckel: I ask candidates to create an object model of a chicken.

I mean, how can you argue with Scott Meyers and how can you object to a chicken?

Speaking of arguing with Scott Meyers... I worked at one of those phone company research labs back in the 90's and we had enough money to bring in Scott Meyers to teach us all about C++. Scott was explaining how you can overload operators and you can even overload the equals sign, when one student raised his hand. The student explained that there were some situations in telecommunications systems where A was equal to B, but B was not equal to A. Scott immediately objected, of course, but the student went off into some jargon-filled explanation of his particular problem domain. Scott let the student finish and then said, "if you were to overload the equals operator so that A was equal to B, but B was not equal to A, then I would want to kill you." That was the end of the argument.

Dave in General 11:46PM Feb 25, 2003 Comments[1]

Tags: humor

Preparation for Hibernation.

To prepare for the move to Hibernate, I've been refactoring the current implementation of the Roller business tier. There is a lot of code in the Castor implementation of the persistence manager interfaces that is generic enough to be used in the Hibernate impementation. So, I'm moving that code up into abstract base classes that may be used by both implementations.

Dave in Roller 12:32PM Feb 25, 2003 Comments[0]

Tags: Roller

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Tweet @ 10:55AM May 22, 2012

Final: 53% answered with #theMoreVotesTheBetter for Does "tweetless voting" take the fun out of TwitPolls? http://t.co/l1NrmxI2
Tweet @ 10:48AM May 22, 2012

Poll ending: Does "tweetless voting" take the fun out of TwitPoll reply w/ #no #theMoreVotesTheBetter #onlyALittle #yes http://t.co/l1NrmxI2
Tweet @ 10:10AM May 22, 2012

Swagger: A simple, open standard for describing REST APIs with JSON http://t.co/E8G7zBLm
Tweet @ 08:51AM May 22, 2012

RT @aarahkahak: @citycampral is next week, you guys! http://t.co/Q5qC9lK9
Tweet @ 08:45AM May 22, 2012

"The best way to become a good software architect is to get old!" [To get experience] George Fairbanks #gotocph
Tweet @ 08:20AM May 22, 2012

"IBM even turns off Siri, the voice-activated personal assistant, on employees’ iPhones" | IBM stung by BYOD pitfalls | http://t.co/tzI1wA9s
Tweet @ 10:59AM May 21, 2012

RT @RobertFischer: @snoopdave While it is true that "the more votes the better", the reality is that it takes #onlyALittle fun out of Tw ...
Tweet @ 10:52AM May 21, 2012

Does "tweetless voting" take the fun out of TwitPolls? reply w/ #no #theMoreVotesTheBetter #onlyALittle #yes http://t.co/l1NvU7Rc
Tweet @ 10:09AM May 21, 2012

serenity now! @RobertFischer I vote #MyCalm http://t.co/Z01G597M
Tweet @ 10:06AM May 21, 2012

RT @RobertFischer: What should I work on today? reply w/ #AshlarLanguage #AppliedXianityBook #GrailsSessions #MyCalm http://t.co/Pdexn2DK
Tweet @ 10:01AM May 21, 2012

NetBeans to add in native JQuery support through new JavaScript editor | http://t.co/FgRYFlm4
Tweet @ 09:53AM May 21, 2012

schadenfreuders gonna schadenfreude
Tweet @ 10:48PM May 20, 2012

RT @rsarver: Awesome to finally meet Scott! “@jasoncosta: .@rsarver and I catching up with @scottmcnealy at twitter HQ! http://t.co/OZlY ...
Tweet @ 10:32PM May 20, 2012

y shit did Mick Jagger rip it up on SNL or what?
Tweet @ 07:33PM May 20, 2012

RT @scottmcnealy: It's gonna be fun watching @GetTwitPolls live in action for the @EMCWorld conference this week. #WhatHappensInVegas
Tweet @ 06:12PM May 20, 2012

@monkchips if they are American, then they are fat
Tweet @ 05:11PM May 20, 2012

Mick Jagger's Best 'SNL' Moments | http://t.co/sKC1IfNG << awesome show!
Tweet @ 10:27AM May 20, 2012

: Atlassian's Big Experiment with Performance Reviews http://t.co/OM2dkYY9 the Dan Pink video at bottom of page is very relevant
Tweet @ 11:02PM May 19, 2012

@AmericanAir #WestEnd
Tweet @ 07:52PM May 19, 2012

Carolina Theatre begins Alfred Hitchcock Retrospective this weekend http://t.co/u5jBe0mt
Tweet @ 07:37PM May 19, 2012

.@RussB I never looked at it that way, perhaps because the authors are, in fact way cooler than me ;-) It's always been one of my fave blogs
Tweet @ 05:41PM May 19, 2012

.@RussB please elaborate, what's obnoxious about BoingBoing writers?
Tweet @ 05:39PM May 19, 2012

RT @trieloff: Ad people vs Normal people [infographic] http://t.co/7U5iqoV6
Tweet @ 04:54PM May 19, 2012

: The Atari catalog from 1978. Total awesomeness. http://t.co/TbJDK9II #atari
Tweet @ 09:49PM May 18, 2012

esome to finally meet Scott! “@jasoncosta: .@rsarver and I catching up with @scottmcnealy at twitter HQ! http://t.co/OZlY7Pq6”
Tweet @ 06:10AM May 17, 2012

ingvoid: On Yahoo effing Flickr: http://t.co/l7rYJPgU
Tweet @ 05:25PM May 16, 2012

his is awesome. RT @bsletten: The Semantic Web will never happen! It’s nonsense. What’s that? Oh, never mind. http://t.co/v1SYiF0P
Tweet @ 10:41AM May 16, 2012

Cambridge Quad Notebook: The Best Graph Paper http://t.co/thVAwlA5
Tweet @ 08:51PM May 15, 2012

iPod Body Mod: magnetic wrist piercings become mount for Apple iPod Nano http://t.co/VUzqVUsI
Tweet @ 08:16PM May 15, 2012

: If Obama's the first gay president, then I'm the first gay late night host! Oh, he's not gay? Then I was being sarcastic.

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