Monthly Archives: August 2007

Ego interviewing

Posted on August 29, 2007 by Brian Pontarelli

I received a reply to my Google post today. Since I get a lot of spam, I filter everything on this blog. Usually any comment that comes in I just make sure it isn’t porn or spam and approve it. … Continue reading →

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Google interviewing

Posted on August 27, 2007 by Brian Pontarelli

The phone screen Question #1: How would you go about making a copy from a node in a directed graph? This I had done before for Savant’s dependency tree. I had never distributed this type of operation, but since the … Continue reading →

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JavaConfig thoughts

Posted on August 22, 2007 by Brian Pontarelli

Looking at JavaConfig for the first time. Here’s some thoughts: 1. The @Configuration annotation allows you to setup auto-wire and lazy initialization but also seems required if you don’t specify anything. Seems like a bit of overhead since you have … Continue reading →

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The Properties class sucks!

Posted on August 13, 2007 by Brian Pontarelli

Okay, I spent a number of hours battling with Guice last night and found a simple bug in the Guice code, which is probably more a bug in Sun’s JVM than anything else. I don’t blame the Guice guys for … Continue reading →

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JVM restarts/availability JSRs

Posted on August 13, 2007 by Brian Pontarelli

I made a comment in my JVM restart post about some JSRs that address server restarts. Here are the JSRs and how I see them solving some of the problems. 121: Application Isolation API This JSR addresses the need to … Continue reading →

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