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Preparing for technical job interviews

At some time in your career you will need to interview for a job, if you own your own consulting firm then you are most likely interviewing for jobs on a weekly basis (by pitching clients to contract you for work). Preparing for technical job interviews requires a great deal of research, work, and most of all patience. This article provides a list of questions and answers that I fielded while interviewing for senior level software development positions, it is a collection of my experiences during 17 different job interviews with 10 companies including NASA (who offered me a job)...

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) REST Starter Kit

With REST gaining popularity at an exponential rate Microsoft released the ASP.NET WCF REST Starter Kit Alpha on Oct. 27, 2008 to provide a solid starting place for developers interested in building WCF applications using Representational state transfer (REST).

Responsibility-Driven Design using the Class Card Technique

The Class Card object modeling technique is an extremely easy and simple way to design your applications objects. As an alternative to UML Diagrams, Class Cards are simply 3.5in X 5in pieces of paper (index cards) that you write information on about each object in your application. It helps you think about your design in a "object oriented" manner, something most of us can relate with because we deal with "objects" each and every day of our lives...

Books You Should Read

Wise Words

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say"

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life happens while you're making other plans"

- John Lennon

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power."

- Alan Cohen

Michael Knopf