Back to the roots

After some years of agile consulting and a brief intermezzo at a big financial institution I am again about to join a small and innovative product company with a leading product in their space.

Product development, trading software, highly concurrent systems ... that should be fun! And did I mention I am free to choose whatever hardware and operating system I want to use? Good bye Windows.

Hani's interview

Hani is hiring. Imagine the job interview:

• Please introduce yourself - do you prefer Rod Johnson's moobjuice or Gavin Fleury's turd lubricant with your javalicious breakfast?
• Why are you interested in Formicary's baby jesus buttplugs anyway?
• What other 5 things don't I want to know about you?
  
• Could you explain why OSWorkflow is the only true kind of genitalia waggling since FogBugz's ASP to PHP compiler?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of Ruby orifice rubbing compared to poopoowibblewomwoming in Java?
• How is the OpenSore interface implemented in Axis2? How would you refactor it away using NetBeans and a time travel machine?
• How fast would fowlbots die without regular dependency injections by The Bearded One?
• Ok, enough of your spastic, retarded gibberish! I've got the right job for you. It's with the Maven team at Apache...
  

I hope someone who gets to the interview stage is so kind to share his/her interview experience with us!

Google not functional?

There has been some discussion in the blogsphere lately as to what the Next Big Programming Language might be. At the same time the functional programming camp has been stressing that with the advent of multicore CPUs functional languages will find their way into mainstream programming because they make it easier to write thread-safe programs (being side effect free and all that).

It was interesting to read that Google's internal choice of programming languages (C++, Java, Python and JavaScript) does not include FP (JavaScript has first-class functions, but it lacks other caractheristics to make it a full-flagged functional language).

Surely if anyone would benefit from FP for massively parallel computation it would be Google?