Python seems fun!

First time to try out Python on a small project I'm working on with Andrew and it seems fun so far! It's cool to learn a new enjoyable language! :)

Interview Question: Reverse words in a sentence

Have you ever been asked this question in a technical interview for a software related position: "Using the language of your choice, reverse the words in a sentence."? If so, have you ever wondered how many solutions in different languages exist? Scripting, object-oriented, functional programming, commands, and the list could go on...

Thanks to Andrew for providing such a short and cool solution that might show why Linux users just love Linux and its tools! You can try this on a Linux terminal: echo "this is the sentence to reverse" | tr ' ' '\n' | tac | tr '\n' ' '; echo

Fyi, tr stands for translate character, which means that it will search for all the ' ' (spaces) and replace them with '\n' (new line); tac prints a file/string in reverse, like the opposite of cat.

Let me know what you think and feel free to share your solutions! 

HackDays Vancouver (HackVan)

HackVan was last weekend, on Friday the 23rd of March and Saturday the 24th of March 2012, and it was awesome! I had a great time, took first steps into mobile development & was amazed by what the Vancouver tech community can accomplish in few hours!

HackDays is an event that takes place across several cities in Canada. Last weekend it was here in Vancouver and located at A Thinking Ape. The event began on Friday night by having a mixer in Electric Owl where participants got to know each other and form teams. On Saturday at 9am, 100 developers gathered to begin the coding day! Eight sponsor APIs (Yellow Pages, FreshBooks, TinEye/Idée, iQmetrix XQ, HootSuite, Shopify, Twilio & PhoneGap) had representatives there. The rule was to implement something using at least one of the sponsor APIs in few hours and present it to the other teams and the judges for a chance to win prizes.

It was such a nice event and I would recommend everyone to check it out. Special thanks for all the organizers and I am looking forward to next year's event!!

"Finding Great Developers" by Joel Spolsky on Joel on Software

Really an amazing article!

I was reading it basically to know where good employers search for great developers/employees, but it is written the other way around: it is written for employers to find great developers.

It is well written, gives nice insights, simply great!

So if you have a company or someday decide to do a startup and want to be successful by employing great employees, I would definitely recommend you to take a look at that article. As it was written in 2006, in my opinion its beginning might not be totally true with today's market circumstances after the crisis, but the 3 methods (Go to the mountain, Internships and Build your own community) that he explains later on about how to find and employ great developers are simply amazingly written.

Joel Spolsky is the co-founder of "Fog Creek Software" in New York and this post is from his "Joel on Software" blog. 

Let me know your opinion about his methods!

Finding Great Developers by Joel Spolsky on Joel on Software