In July I posted a set of questions for a Java technical evaluation based on an eval I did for my employer. This is part two where I add some answers to those questions.
Interviewers: many of these questions are very open ended and this post only lists one of many right answers. [...]
Wherein I link to various shiny things that caught my eye for the last four days, while I was not able to blog.
I’ve been away from McSweeny’s too long. Many good things here: Reviews of New Food.
from Onion Sprouts: So, with your box safely stowed in its own plastic Safeway bag, I take you home, fully prepared to honor my hunger with your goodness. I load you on my sandwich—a boring bologna accompanied by an uneven [...]
The discussion sparked by Ted on Ruby on Rails has made for some very interesting reading. All in all, Justin, Dion, and Glenn all weighed in with their thoughts on Rails and why Ted might be missing it. See Ted’s “final” post on the subject for a good summary of the whole thing [...]
Sergio Pereira has written up some very nice unofficial documentation for Prototype, the leading javascript library for Ajax applications. Its also the library underneath Rails’ ajax support. Sergio has even done some API style docs for the major objects. Definitely worth a print out.
Aside: what is up with the script.aculo.us server? [...]
Ruby Symbols are kinda like interned Strings in Java, only different
(Found via redhanded) A nice post showing a one-liner using ActiveRecord to search and replace through all records of a table, including the db save. Has a nice explanation of blocks: A One-liner with Rails and ActiveRecord.
Attending the Server Side’s conference in Orlando this October
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