Microsoft’s MIX07 conference has stirred up the web development world with demos of Silverlight, a new platform for rich internet applications. Code-named WPF/e (Windows Presentation Foundation/everywhere), Silverlight brings the full power of WPF to browsers and eventually Xbox and mobile devices. On the surface, it’s much like Flash, distributed as a small browser plugin and [...]
“The Daily WTF” has been on my daily reading list for a long time, and I do read it every day. Last week the site changed its name to “Worse Than Failure” and kicked off with an interesting post by Alex on the new name and how it applies to all the programmers that read [...]
I just got a voice mail and e-mail from one of the Microsoft recruiters I interviewed with last week letting me know I have a job. They’re hiring me as an Application Developer. I’ll be writing both Windows and web applications with C#/ASP.NET and SQL server.
I finally had the last of this round of interviews — my first attempt to find a coop job for April through September to finish the work experience requirement of my degree at Drexel. I met with two really nice people from Microsoft in the morning. First, a recruiter for the IT department that just [...]
Looks like I won’t be packing up and moving out to California in April; Google turned me down for the job I applied to. Maybe that second interviewer‘s questioning really did mean they wanted a C coder despite the job description listing C++.
I’ve just finished an hour and a half on the phone doing two interviews for a software engineer intern position at Google. Those were definitely the most interesting, challenging and enjoyable job interviews I’ve ever done.
