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What are the most important OO skills to show off in the job hunt?

- by Kat

I am in the market for new employment, and found a position were they asked me to create a programming sample based off an assignment. I blew the sample trying to get it done quickly one night, and got declined - only to be given a second chance recently. The concern was that I didn't really demonstrate object oriented knowledge. I've rethought my approach but I figure it's worth asking: if you were hiring someone for an OO position, what skills would you most want to see them demonstrate they had a firm grasp on? I want to be sure that I'm missing anything important this time around.

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DBCC CHECKDB (BatmanDb, REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS) – Are you Feeling Lucky?

- by David Totzke

I’m currently working for a client on a PowerBuilder to WPF migration. It’s one of those “I could tell you, but I’d have to kill you” kind of clients and the quick-lime pits are currently occupied by the EMC tech…but I’ve said too much already. At approximately 3 or 4 pm that day users of the Batman[1] application here in Gotham[1] started to experience problems accessing the application. Batman[2] is a document management system here that also integrates with the ERP system. Very little goes on here that doesn’t involve Batman in some way. The errors being received seemed to point to network issues (TCP protocol error, connection forcibly closed by the remote host etc…) but the real issue was much more insidious. Connecting to the database via SSMS and performing selects on certain tables underlying the application areas that were having problems started to reveal the issue. You couldn’t do a SELECT * FROM MyTable without it bombing and giving the same error noted above. A run of DBCC CHECKDB revealed 14 tables with corruption. One of the tables with issues was the Document table. Pretty central to a “document management” system. Information was obtained from IT that a single drive in the SAN went bad in the night. A new drive was in place and was working fine. The partition that held the Batman database is configured for RAID Level 5 so a single drive failure shouldn’t have caused any trouble and yet, the database is corrupted. They do hourly incremental backups here so the first thing done was to try a restore. A restore of the most recent backup failed so they worked backwards until they hit a good point. This successful restore was for a backup at 3AM – a full day behind. This time also roughly corresponds with the time the SAN started to report the drive failure. The plot thickens… I got my hands on the output from DBCC CHECKDB and noticed a pattern. What’s sad is that nobody that should have noticed the pattern in the DBCC output did notice. There was a rush to do things to try and recover the data before anybody really understood what was wrong with it in the first place. Cooler heads must prevail in these circumstances and some investigation should be done and a plan of action laid out or you could end up making things worse[3]. DBCC CHECKDB also told us that: repair_allow_data_loss is the minimum repair level for the errors found by DBCC CHECKDB Yikes. That means that the database is so messed up that you’re definitely going to lose some stuff when you repair it to get it back to a consistent state. All the more reason to do a little more investigation into the problem. Rescuing this database is preferable to having to export all of the data possible from this database into a new one. This is a fifteen year old application with about seven hundred tables. There are TRIGGERS everywhere not to mention the referential integrity constraints to deal with. Only fourteen of the tables have an issue. We have a good backup that is missing the last 24 hours of business which means we could have a “do-over” of yesterday but that’s not a very palatable option either. All of the affected tables had TEXT columns and all of the errors were about LOB data types and orphaned off-row data which basically means TEXT, IMAGE or NTEXT columns. If we did a SELECT on an affected table and excluded those columns, we got all of the rows. We exported that data into a separate database. Things are looking up. Working on a copy of the production database we then ran DBCC CHECKDB with REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS and that “fixed” everything up. The allow data loss option will delete the bad rows. This isn’t too horrible as we have all of those rows minus the text fields from out earlier export. Now I could LEFT JOIN to the exported data to find the missing rows and INSERT them minus the TEXT column data. We had the restored data from the good 3AM backup that we could now JOIN to and, with fingers crossed, recover the missing TEXT column information. We got lucky in that all of the affected rows were old and in the end we didn’t lose anything. :O All of the row counts along the way worked out and it looks like we dodged a major bullet here. We’ve heard back from EMC and it turns out the SAN firmware that they were running here is apparently buggy. This thing is only a couple of months old. Grrr…. They dispatched a technician that night to come and update it . That explains why RAID didn’t save us. All-in-all this could have been a lot worse. Given the root cause here, they basically won the lottery in not losing anything. Here are a few links to some helpful posts on the SQL Server Engine blog. I love the title of the first one: Which part of 'REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS' isn't clear? CHECKDB (Part 8): Can repair fix everything? (in fact, read the whole series) Ta da! Emergency mode repair (we didn’t have to resort to this one thank goodness) Dave Just because I can… [1] Names have been changed to protect the guilty. [2] I'm Batman. [3] And if I'm the coolest head in the room, you've got even bigger problems...

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Professional iOS Development as a Backup Career [closed]

- by New Coder

I am a research chemist by day and I am a self-taught hobbyist iOS programmer by night. I am in the process of developing a moderately complex iOS app and hope to launch it within a month or two. I love everything about iOS development (and programming in general). I want to know if iOS development could become a backup career for me if I loose my job. My question: Let's say I had a couple of apps in the app store, a solid foundation in objective-C and the apple frameworks and basic knowledge on network integrated apps. Without a formal CS degree, what other experience/knowledge would I need to land a job as a professional iOS developer? Forgive me if this question is out of bounds for this forum. If it is, suggestions on where to post such a question would be appreciated.

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SQLBeat Podcast – Episode 8 – Interviewing Patrick LeBlanc On Interviewing

- by SQLBeat

In this episode of the SQLBeat Podcast (@SQLBeat on twitter) I had a chance to speak with Patrick LeBlanc, currently with Microsoft and former SQL Server MVP. We spend a good amount of time talking about his current gig and his apparent fascination with almost never being dressed. Fortunately he had on some jeans and a shirt for this interview, though he did look at bit dozy because he had not slept the night before. With his help we came up with what is going to be a recurring section on the podcast and that is failed or embarrassing job interviews. Patrick has quite a humiliating one for the launch of “Tell Me About Your Worst Job Interview”. Ok, I can come up with a better title for that section surely. Anyway, have a listen and if you can think of something better, let me know in the comments section. <source src="http://www.simple-talk.com/blogbits/rodneylandrum/Patrick_LeBlanc.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"

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March 2010 Chicago Architects Group Wrap Up

- by Tim Murphy

I would like to thank everyone who came out to last night’s event and especially thank Mike Vogt for the presentation. I think at first everyone glassed over since very few of us spend a lot of time with Integration Architecture and most of us live more in the application architecture space. Learning about subject like BPEL and BPMN was refreshing. The discussion after Mike’s talk was lively and I think that everyone came away with a good idea of areas they might want to know more about. People stuck around long after the meeting was over. If you are interested in the topic you can find the slides here. Be sure to join us next month when Matt Hidinger talks about Onion Architecture. Details are coming soon. del.icio.us Tags: CAG,Chicago Architects Group

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Indicator-cpufreq does not work at 12.04 ¿infinite loop insaid?

- by Juan

Good night, i want to use indicator-cpufreq, but it is not possible, i think that when i start it, i get an infinite loop and it doesnt start I think i am doing it well, here you have a snapshoot when i try to start it http://i.stack.imgur.com/mvaYf.jpg But 6 or 7 minutes later, it continues at the same point, i have to stop it with Ctrl-c, and shows that: http://i.stack.imgur.com/Vi0pp.jpg It says:" Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/indicator-cpufreq", line 82, in gtk.main() KeyboardInterrupt" I do not have idea of what do for fix that, i hope you can help me to do that Thanks for your time and sorry about my english

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Best Of 2010

- by Mike Dietrich

Hi there, in Australia, Japan, Singapore and many other countries it's already 2011 - but Germany and the US is still some time until midnight :-) To round up the year you'll find a few off-topic pictures from 2010. You might click on the pictures to get a better resolution. Enjoy ... Moscow - Red Square Tokyo Train - Cell Phone Mania Great Chinese Wall near Beijing Hong Kong by Night Yearing Station Winery, Yarra - Victoria, Australia Dublin, Ireland - during the ash cloud - no comment - Liberty It's sometime foggy in SF Singapore Opera Stockholm - Gamla Stan Unbelievable white beach at Camps Bay, Clifton, Capetown Words fail me ... Mike

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New Computer

- by Matt Christian

Last night I received my computer that was ordered with my tax return money. Here are the specs of my old computer: - Pentium 4 Processor - 3-4 GB RAM - ~256 GB HDD space (2 drives) - nVidia card (AGP 8x) Sorry I can't be more specific, my memory is gone :p Here are the new computer specs (mostly): - 2.8ghz Pentium i7 quadcore - 6 GB RAM - 1 TB HDD space (1 drive) - 1 GB Radeon card (PCI-X) I also got a new monitor (22" Asus with HDMI) so will be using my 19" widescreen as a secondary monitor. If I remember I'll hop on here and post the specifics later on...

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Looking Back at PASS Summit 2013 - Location

- by RickHeiges

Now that it has been a few weeks since the Summit, I wanted to look back at the location "experiment". Convention Center - It seemed to work well for the conference. There were quite a few areas in the area where you could sit down and get some work down or have a discussion. For the larger welcome reception the first night, I really liked the different areas. If you wanted to enjoy the Quiz Bowl, the ballroom area was set up nicely with big screens so that everyone could see and hear. The area right...(read more)

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Methods of learning / teaching programming

- by Mark Avenius

When I was in school, I had a difficult time getting into programming because of a catch-22 in the learning process: I didn't know how to write anything because I didn't know what keywords and commands meant. For example (as a student, I would think), "what does this using namespace std; thing do anyway? I didn't know what keywords and commands meant because I hadn't written anything. This basically led me to spending countless long night cursing the compiler as I made minor tweaks to my assignments until they would compile (and hopefully perform whatever operation they were supposed to). Is there a teaching/learning method that anyone uses that gets around this catch-22? I am trying to make this non-argumentative, which is why I don't want to know the 'best' method, but rather which methods exist.

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London-based IT Training company seeks developers interested in achieving Microsoft Certifications

IT Training company MCP Guru, based near Canary Wharf, looking to fill last available places on several Microsoft courses.All certifications available. Learners can study in-class, at work or at home, on weekdays and weekends, day or night.All instructors possess several years software and web development experience, and all are fully licensed.Individual learners get 30% discount, groups of 2 or more get 50% discount.Hurry! Last few places remaining! Offer ends April 30th.Contact Jatinder at [email protected] you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

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C# XNA - Sky Sphere Question

- by Wade

I have been banging my head against the wall trying to get a sky sphere to work appropriately in XNA 4.0. I have the sphere loading correctly, and even textured, but i would like something a little more dynamic that can support a day/night cycle. My issue is that, while i know a good amount of C# and XNA, i know next to nothing about HLSL. (I could make an ambient light shader if my life depended on it...) I also have not been able to find a tutorial on how to build a sky sphere like this. Of course i don't expect to be able to make an amazing one right off the bat, i would like to start small, with a dynamic coloring sky i'll work out the clouds and sun later. My first question: Does anyone know of any good tutorial sites that could help me get a decent grasp around HLSL? Second: Does anyone have a good example of or know where to find one of a gradient sky using XNA and C#?

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JCP Party Tonight...10th Annual JCP Award Unveiling

- by heathervc

Tonight is the night-attend the Presentation of the 10th Annual JCP Awards! This year's JCP Award nominee list has been finalized, and the winners will be announced tonight during the JCP party at the Infusion Lounge. We will open the doors at 6:30 PM; awards presentation at 7:00 PM. This year's three award categories are Member of the Year, Outstanding Spec Lead, and Most Significant JSR. The JCP Member/Participant of the Year shines the light on who has shown the leadership and commitment that led to the most positive impact on the community. The Outstanding Spec Lead highlights the individual who led a specific JSR with exceptional efficiency and execution. The Most Significant JSR recognizes the most significant JSR for the Java community in the past year. Read the final list of the nominees and their profiles now. Hope to see you there!

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SQL Social

- by SteveP

Wanted to thanks Simon for putting together a great event last night. It was a real pleasure to be in the company of some of the greats(Itzik, Greg, Davide, Bill and not forgetting Mr Sabin) in the SQL server space. The venue was superb and the knowledge of the panel covered pretty much every corner of the SQL Server platform. I'm very much looking forward to seeing how the social evenings progress. It's going to be hard to follow this one.

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That pestky Intel Centrino wireless N + WiMAX 6150 wireless card

- by newb26

I'm new to linix and just got Ubuntu up and running on my ASUS laptop last night. Aside from the wireless everything seems to be working. The card is able to recognize networks but cannot make a full connection. After I enter my password it will try to connect before asking for the password again after a few minutes. I know the issue isn't the password because I checked that I had the right one. I've done some poking around trying to find a way to get it work. Linix recognizes the card as well. I found a link to some drivers in a question someone had about a WiMAX 6250 card and am curious if anyone knows if they would also work for the 6150 I have in my machine: https://github.com/ago/wimax-tools If not what can I do?

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IIM Calcutta – EPBM 14 – Campus Visit - Arrival

- by Ram Shankar Yadav

Here I’m in the Mecca of Management, India’s premier institute of management, to learn great things about management with the management Gurus!! As they say a picture is worth thousand words, so I’ll say it by thousand Pictures ;) EPBM, yep that’s an acronym for Executive Programme in Business Management. It’s a year long program having 14 different management subject, designed to suit working professionals. For more info on EPBM please visit : http://www.iimcal.ac.in/edp/ld.asp or http://www.hnge.in/retail/iimc/iimc_epbm_15.htm I’m gonna post my experiences, and hope that it will be useful for someone, who is interested in doing this programme. The collage above depicts my full day i.e., 25th April 2010, which started by taking pictures of beautiful moon night @ 3 AM, followed by air travel from 11 AM - 5 PM , meeting with friends/batch mates at Kolkata airport, one and half hour ride to Joka Campus by Yellow Taxi, “New Building” hostel…etc. Things that I didn’t captured on camera : Sweat after reaching campus, IPL Final watching in Common Room, Lot of GAGS and things that you can only experience by being here ….!~ Stay tuned for more…. ram :)

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Does TDD lead to the good design?

- by Eugen Martynov

I'm in transition from "writing unit tests" state to TDD. I saw as Johannes Brodwall creates quite acceptable design from avoiding any of architecture phase before. I'll ask him soon if it was real improvisation or he had some thoughts upfront. I also clearly understand that everyone has experience that prevents to write explicit design bad patterns. But after participating in code retreat I hardly believe that writing test first could save us from mistakes. But I also believe that tests after code will lead to mistakes much faster. So this night question is asking for people who is using TDD for a long time share their experience about results of design without upfront thinking. If they really practice it and get mostly suitable design. Or it's my small understanding about TDD and probably agile.

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Hack Week 5.0

w00t! Next week is Novell's Hack Week, 5th edition - but I'm starting this Friday night. I'll spend the next week on two goals for Gendarme.Better handling of defects; andMaking it easier to contribute - and yes the first goal already fills a bit of the second one.I'll also spend some time in my VS2010 VM. I need to do this to ensure the unit tests are executing correctly on Windows / MS.NET. There has been a few failures in the past, mostly because of small, legit differences between xMCS and CSC,...Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

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KScope - so much going on!

- by jgelhaus

Greetings from Kscope 11! We are enjoying catching up with old friends as well as meeting new ones. There's so many excellent examples of superior development with Oracle Database all over the conference. Our users never cease to amaze us. There are too many to mention in this short area, but a few highlights include: Monday night's Guru Panel of Tom Kyte, Steve Feuerstein and Cary Millsap ODTUG Board member Monty Latiolais interview with Oracle vp of Database Development, Mike Hichwa Fabulous time aboard the Queen Mary!! See all the Kscope videos As the conference winds down, we thank everyone (wonderful planning and conference execution) as well as bid our goodbyes. It's just for a short while as we make plans to attend Kscope12 - see ya'll in San Antonio!

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Flash isn't working in Chrome on 64 bit Ubuntu 10.10 fresh install

- by IanBalisy

I just installed Ubuntu 10.10 64 bit last night on my laptop and installed Google Chrome ver. 8.0.552.237. So far flash works on Firefox and Chromium, but not at all on Chrome. I did the sevenmachines install for flashplugin64 and that worked for firefox and chromium. Anyone know how to make it work on Chrome? I really would prefer to use Chrome over Chromium, but if it's not an easy fix I can switch. I'm not too Ubuntu literate, but I can figure things out if necessary. (In short, long explanations are not necessary).

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The Future of the Database Begins

- by Thanos Terentes Printzios

For more than three-and-a-half decades, Oracle has defined database innovation. With our leading technologies, Oracle customers have been able to out-think and out-perform their competition. Soon organizations will be able to do that even faster.With the introduction of the Oracle Database In-Memory Option it will be possible to perform TRUE real-time, ad-hoc, analytic queries on your organization’s business data as it exists at that moment and receive the results immediately. Imagine your sales team being able to know the total sales they have made as of right now -- not last week, or even last night, but right now.Imagine innovation that accelerates business decision making to real-time speeds. That's the power of Oracle Database In-Memory.Watch Larry Ellison to find out what this and the other new features of Oracle Database 12c will do for you. Register Now for the Live Webcast

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Great Presentation to the Israel Dot Net Developers User Group (IDNDUG)

I continue to be impressed with the quality of .NET Developers in Israel.. we had a full house last night for a 2+ hour presentation on building business applications with Silverlight and RIA Services. The audience was very engaged and had lots of good, relevant questions which created a really good conversation. Check out the slides and demo. I started off by demoing the Right-to-Left text support for Hebrew that is baked in as part of Silverlight 4. ...Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

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Upgrade Workshop in Wellington - Recap

- by Mike Dietrich

Wow! Wellington is really a wonderful city - except for the weather situation But it was the first time that Roy and me did arrive to a workshop with a ferry boat. We flew in on Friday to Christchurch (btw, this was the longest customs and border control I've ever went through - and I traveled to Israel by Bus via Allenby Bridge from the West Bank some years ago - it took us two hours to go through immigration and customs in the night from Friday to Saturday) and drove up the Southern Island. Very nice Great landscapes, great wines and great people! I'f you'd like to download the slides please download them from the Slides Download section to your right. And next time you'll have to ask more questions Don't be this shy - Roy and me (usually) don't bite -Mike

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On my way home ...

- by Mike Dietrich

Modern technology is nice - sitting in the speed train from Holyhead to London Euston - working a bit. This means: I'm heading home. Still 16 hours to go - but up to now everything seems to work fine. Irish Ferries did a great job. Even though they might never have seen some many passengers entering the Ulysses (what a good name for a ship to start the journey with) everybody was so friendly and helpful. The night at Holyhead station ... ahm ... But the train left right in time. German airspace is still closed until at least 8pm tonight. And Irish airspace seems to be closed as well today. So it might be the best decision to take the longer journey. At least now I have the chance to see some countryside (a bit flat out there - but very green) ;-)

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Sounds to describe the weather?

- by Matthew

I'm trying to think of sounds that will help convey the time of day and weather condition. I'm not even sure of all the weather conditions I would consider, and some are obvious. Like if it's raining, the sound of rain. But then I'm thinking, what about for a calm day? If it's morning time, I could do birds chirping or something. Night time could be an owl or something. What are some good combinations of sounds/weather/time to have a good effect?

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