Category Archives: Tech

Comment spam is too much

Posted on December 5, 2007 by Brian Pontarelli

First, I want to apologize to all those who have put good comments up on this blog and I haven’t approved them for days or weeks. I just don’t have the time to be checking all the comments I get. … Continue reading →

Posted in Engineering, Google, Life, Tech | 2 Comments

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 →

Posted in Distributed Computing, Google, Java, Life, Tech | 4 Comments

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 →

Posted in Distributed Computing, Google, Tech | 20 Comments

Your framework sucks and I almost lost my job

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Brian Pontarelli

Just read Bob’s post from a bit back about XML and annotations and it occurred to me that Bob’s like the rest of us. We LOVE pointing out flaws in things that annoy us! My string of “Why Hibernate Sucks” … Continue reading →

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My latest Ubuntu setup

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Brian Pontarelli

I’ll keep editing as I go: Install LaunchBox bash$ sudo apt-get install gnome-launch-box bash$ gconf-editor Open apps->gnome-launch-box->bindings and set activate to <Super>l This allows gnome-launch-box to be activated using the Windows-L shortcut. Next setup gnome-launch-box to start automatically. Open System->Preferences->Sessions … Continue reading →

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