Archive for February, 2008

wxWidgets on Windows using NetBeans 6.0 with MinGW + MSYS

Posted on February 23rd, 2008 by Dalton Filho

Setting up a wxWidgets project on Windows using NetBeans 6.0 is quite harder than doing the same on Linux, but if you want to be able to use the powerful features of NetBeans instead of smaller IDEs like wxDev-cpp, here is a quick guide to setup your environment.

In praise of education

Posted on February 10th, 2008 by Dalton Filho

The year of experience is a frequent phrase in tech job postings and a very popular measure of knowledge. But does this measure actually work? If companies decided to withdraw it as a measure of knowledge, using technical questions instead, would professionals be able to be 100% prepared with our current ad-hoc means of learning?