Archive for May, 2008

Ruby on Rails, Cygwin, and Git part 1

Friday, May 9th, 2008

This is the first of what will probably become a series on using Ruby on Rails under Cygwin, with source control managed by Git. This might raise a couple of questions, which I will attempt to answer here.

Why Ruby on Rails? It provides a nice break from the Java and Perl development I normally do.
Why […]

Interviewing, Part 1

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

This is the first installment in what may become a series of posts on how to do better in technical interviews.
Most technical interviews have a few key areas in which you need to demonstrate some skill or experience, such as problem solving, algorithms, data structures, programming language concepts, dealing with ambiguity, writing code, and communications […]