A friend and co-worker of mine (one of the best and brightest I’ve worked with) recently left our company to go work for Microsoft. Having gone through the Microsoft interview process myself (hilariously unprepared, to the enjoyment of my interviewer), I wondered what he had done to get ready for the process. He recommended one book - Cracking the Coding Interview - which he said had been recommended to him as the bible for preparation.

In my previous post about derby, I talked a bit about how to create a model in derby and one rule you need to follow when creating models (the first two path segments should be an object).

EDIT NOTE: This no longer needs to be done outside of Modernizr. This was added to the Modernizr package about a month ago. Link to issue

Been playing around with Derby in my spare time. The idea behind the platform is smart - using node and express, you write one set of code, and that code automatically syncs data between browsers, servers, and a database.

I’ve just started using node.js with express.js on both Windows (with iisnode) and Ubuntu.

Had an issue at work where I wanted to store my rules and handlers for a class outside of the class definition, so I could better test the component. Found an easy way to add all your rules into StructureMap, and then retrieve those rules as a list via constructor injection.

I’m a fan of Twitter Bootstrap, the simple and flexible CSS, HTML, and JavaScript user interface framework.

Please note I came across a bug in the code, and revised this post on 31/07/2012.

So we’ve rolled out a new build process at work. I’ve started working with a new company, and when I arrived, the build process for a new environment consisted of a 20 page manual somebody had written. The process of putting a build on an environment was slow, the manual had steps missing that everyone just ‘knew’, the process had multiple failure points, and was more or less a complete disaster. Every other release to PRODUCTION would have some release process error that…

Just found out about a good tool that ships with Windows 7.