dxmio.com » IDE http://www.dxmio.com "Brevity is the soul of wit." --William Shakespeare Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:15:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Interviews http://www.dxmio.com/2009/06/28/interviews/ http://www.dxmio.com/2009/06/28/interviews/#comments Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:44:45 +0000 dxmio http://www.dxmio.com/?p=477 I knew that when I started the job search, I would ultimately end up doing a lot of algorithm development in my interviews, so I made an investment in a good dry-erase whiteboard to practice on. I explained to Susanna that, as a programmer, a whiteboard is just as important as the computer or code itself, as a consequence of Miller’s thoughts on human memory channel capacity. We as programmers simply can’t juggle all the necessary things that we need to know in active memory – we need to write it down, plan it out. If you are a programmer, you need a whiteboard.

So for my interviews, I’ve been studying data structures, time complexity, design patterns, etc.. I spent some time writing a list of things I ought to study up on. Here’s my list, and my progress for studying.

  • Algorithm to reverse a string
  • Linked List from scratch
  • Quick Sort from scratch
  • Insertion Sort from scratch
  • Selection Sort from scratch
  • Bubble Sort from scratch
  • Singleton pattern
  • Factory pattern
  • Composite pattern
  • Greedy algorithm
  • Backtracking algorithm
  • Memoization
  • Hash table from scratch
  • Binary tree class + search from scratch
  • Heap from scratch
  • Preventing integer overflow
  • Web services in: Java, C#
  • Java command line compilation + flags
  • GCC command line flags
  • Ant, Make
  • Eclipse project/build configurations

The ones I haven’t studied up on I still feel confident that I could write if asked in an interview, but I’d still like to study up on them ahead of time. I also took the time to take all of my study/learning java code and organize it into a package hierarchy for easy access, and discovered a pretty easy way in java to pull resources in.

]]> http://www.dxmio.com/2009/06/28/interviews/feed/ 0 Mac OS X Text Editors http://www.dxmio.com/2008/04/10/mac-os-x-text-editors/ http://www.dxmio.com/2008/04/10/mac-os-x-text-editors/#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:26:44 +0000 dxmio http://www.axbit.com/2008/04/10/mac-os-x-text-editors/ Over the past several days (actually more like a week, but only more intesively so recently) I’ve been looking for the perfect text editor for web development on Mac OS X. Several people recommended Smultron, which I tried and liked, but it doesn’t have the seamless FTP integration that I was looking for. (That, by the way, is my winning feature – I need it to have seamless single-click FTP integration, so that all I have to do when I want to develop/test simultaneously, I can just CTRL-S and tab to a browser to hit refresh.) I looked at probably 10 different editors, whose names I cannot all remember at the moment, but I do remember trying TextMate, Taco, jEdit, TextWrangler/BBEdit, vim for Mac, Dreamweaver, etc… And jEdit almost did it for me, but its FTP integration was horrible, since every time you open a new file it would open a new FTP connection. When your server restricts 8 simultaneous FTP connections, thats bad.

Anyway, the editor I finally settled on is Coda, which is perfect. It does syntax highlighting, bracket matching, code folding, seamless single-click FTP integration, and it looks good too. My development environment now consists of Coda, Firefox, and a shell for MySQL manipulation. I may end up using Navicat or some other MySQL GUI, but right now I seem to have misplaced my Navicat serial number. I really wish SQLyog was a Mac OS X application.

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