Description of the 5 types of software architects you feel lucky to NOT to work with.

I am a hope-driven developer. I am superior and productive. I love coding and I’m different from others.

This article explores the client-server and transaction features of db4o

In the last few posts on interviewing, I discussed mostly about the technical aspects of the interviewing process and some readers had raised the concern that whether technical competence alone is sufficient for doing programming job well. Well, it’s definitely not. In this post, I will discuss on the three most important factors, besides technical skills, that people must care about when evaluating candidates for a programming job.

Unit testing can be difficult sometimes. In some cases, you need to refactor your code-under-test to make it more testable; in other cases, you need to apply some special techniques into your test code so that it can do what you want; and in the worst cases, you can’t think of any such techniques nor are able to refactor the production code and thus, don’t write any test at all. It’s in my experience working with many teams applying unit testing that they often have troubles writing tests for the data access layer (DAL), the UI layer, and multi-threading code, mostly because they are not aware of the techniques for doing that. That is not surprisingly difficult to understand though, business logic is much more intuitive and straight-forward to be tested and every single article or book out there will have examples writing test for the business logic firstly.

Common sense spoken, developers should read (more) books.

Interestingly basic .NET interview questions which can fail a large number of candidates

What content should be put in the front-page of a website.

Reactions to some of Matthew Huntbach's points about Ruby

Compare between the implementations of Java and .NET generics.

An introductory article about programming with db4o. Part 1 touches object creation, update, and deletion and different db4o's query API (SODA, QBE, native query).

Discuss about object-relational impedance mismatch and its consequences and provide an overview of object-relational mapping tools