In praise of education

Posted on February 10th, 2008. Filed under: IT Tags: , ,

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?

On the relevance of compilers

Posted on January 27th, 2008. Filed under: Programming Tags: ,

I’ve just read Steve’s rant about compilers, and believe me, it’s not like the ones you’ve seen before (it’s much better!).