http://directwebremoting.org/blog/joe/tags/interview/ Thoughts on Web Development en Joe Walker Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:17:20 GMT Pebble (http://pebble.sourceforge.net) http://backend.userland.com/rss http://directwebremoting.org/blog/joe/2008/03/05/infoq_interview.html <p>InfoQ interviewed me, <a href="http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/03/dwr_3.0">and asked</a>:</p> <ul> <li>What are some of the major features planned for [DWR] version 3.0?</li> <li>When is 3.0 slated for release? Is it still sometime in June?</li> <li>What does the incremental release schedule look like before the final 3.0 release?</li> <li>What are the top small features or fixes in 3.0 that a developer will be thankful for?</li> <li>For someone who might have looked at DWR 2.0 and decided the time wasn't right, what might 3.0 provide to help "make the deal"?</li> <li>What happened to 2.1, why the jump to 3.0?</li> <li>What sort of impact will Tibco's role play in the future of DWR?</li> <li>What are the next major milestones for DWR after 3.0?</li> </ul> <p style="float:right;"><a href="http://qcon.infoq.com/london/conference/"><img src="http://www.infoq.com/styles/i/qcon/qcon3_speaker11.jpg" style="border:0;"></a></p> <p>InfoQ is <a href="http://www.infoq.com/about.jsp">built using DWR</a>, so it would be great if they could take advantage of features like automatic offline when 3.0 comes out.</p> <p>Taking of things <strong>Q</strong>. Next week, I'm <a href="http://qcon.infoq.com/london/presentation/Interactive+websites%3A+Comet+and+DWR">talking on DWR and Comet</a> at <a href="http://qcon.infoq.com">QCon</a>.</p> http://directwebremoting.org/blog/joe/2008/03/05/infoq_interview.html#comments http://directwebremoting.org/blog/joe/2008/03/05/infoq_interview.html Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:13:43 GMT http://directwebremoting.org/blog/joe/2006/03/01/architect_level_interview_questions.html <div style="float:right;margin:10px;"> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-1699539174292679"; google_ad_width = 250; google_ad_height = 250; google_ad_format = "250x250_as"; google_ad_type = "text_image"; //2006-10-31: high rank posts google_ad_channel = "1218320012"; google_color_border = "FFFFFF"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "000000"; google_color_text = "555555"; google_color_url = "000066"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </div> <p>We're interviewing for Architects at work. There are stacks of sample tests around the web for programmer level roles, but not a lot for architect level roles. So we devised our own.</p> <p>We tell the applicants that these questions should be answered in bullet list / note form. We don't need essays because we are going to talk about some of the issues in the interview.</p> <ul> <li>What in your opinion is the worst part of Java development? How would you fix it?</li> <li>What advice would you give a server side web developer wanting to ensure that new code was secure from external attacks?</li> <li>Do you think Component based frameworks are better than Action/Request based web frameworks?</li> <li>What recent technology trends are important to enterprise web development?</li> <li>What do you think of Struts?</li> <li>What's the difference between final, finally and finalize?</li> <li>Rank the following attributes in order of importance when designing new code. If you have time, please add a sentence to each explaining it's position:</li> <ul> <li>performance</li> <li>maintainability</li> <li>correctness</li> <li>ease of use</li> <li>ease of learning<li> </ul> <li>Some performance tweaks serve only to make source code hard to read, without really making a significant difference, others are vital to a system returning results in a finite time. When in the development process should you consider performance issues?</li> <li>A customer has asked you to write a toUpper function. The only requirement you have is: <ul> <li>It must return 'A' when given an input of 'a'.</li> </ul> What questions do you need to ask to flesh out the requirements?</li> </ul> <p>These are not trick questions - there is generally no one correct answer; just opinions. (Except question 4 of course; You get hired instantly for mentioning DWR ;-)</p> <p>Is this a good way to sorting the men out from the boys?</p> <p>Send me your CV If you are interested in an architect role in the East Midlands, UK: &lt;joe at getahead dot ltd dot uk&gt;</p> http://directwebremoting.org/blog/joe/2006/03/01/architect_level_interview_questions.html#comments http://directwebremoting.org/blog/joe/2006/03/01/architect_level_interview_questions.html Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:22:25 GMT