Interviewing Java Developers With Tears in My Eyes (By Yakov Fain)
— During the last week I had to interview five developers for a position that required the following skills: Flex, Java, Spring, and Hibernate. Most of these guys had demonstrated the 3 out of 10 level of Flex skills even though each of them claimed a practical experience on at least two projects. But this didn’t surprise me – Flex is still pretty new and there is only a small number of developers on the market who can really get Flex things done.

What surprised me the most is a low level of Java skills of most of these people. They have 5-8 years of Java EE project behind their belts, but they were not Java developers. They were species that I can call Robot-Configurator. Each of them knew how to configure XML files for Spring, they knew how to hook up Spring and Hibernate and how to map a Java class to a database entity. Some of them even knew how to configure lazy loading in Hibernate even though not all understood why it’s needed.

Powershell script - simple batch renaming

So I've been looking for a simple way to rename my massive
folders of mp3 when transferred to my stinky LG cell-phone which can not group it's
songs & creates a massive disorder in the songs listing.

so the simple solution was to rename all songs with same artists name
to same start (at lists it orders it alphabetically ) to conclude this preface I've looked for
a fast easy way to do this instead of using an app like "magic file renamer", so powershell
was my obvious choice to look for the answer...the web is filled with examples
and I finally put together a simple syntax to make this work -
gci | % {Rename-Item $_ $("rd" + $_.Name ) -whatif } the "Rd" is the new prefix to
assign to all files, have course there a way to filter the data to search for only mp3s
like so -
get-childitem *.mp3 (get-childitem = gci = dir) powershell is cool, makes me woder
how Microsoft developed such an amazing script language.