Here is a good video from Google  Testing Strategies Overview I believe that I don’t need to stress out how important testing is. So, lets cut the crap and talk about the challenging areas related to this subject. Here are the things I want to talk about Write your unit test first then code It [...]

Get yourself familiar with concurrency programming When I interview my candidates, I like to ask questions related to multi-threading. I found out that it is a good topic to differentiate out a hardcore programmer from application-oriented programmer. I am not saying I am looking for someone who could write the concurrency library as efficient as [...]

Cloud computing is a way to leverage the resources in the cloud (internet) instead of your local box. We may hear the term SaaS (software as a service) and HaaS (hardware as a service). They are combined moving us to an new generation of computing, called utility computing. You can imagine software and computing power [...]

Export schema/ data out from mysql To export schema and/or data, you can use mysqldump command: mysqldump -u [username] -p[password] -d [schema_name] > [filename].sql -d means no data (just gives me the schema). -B is needed for multiple schema output -h (hostname) Export data out from postgresql Export table data from postgresql to csv format Backup [...]

Data can be represented in text format for human and binary format for computer. Here my focus will be on text representation. For application, we commonly use XML because: Its self-documenting format describes structure and field names as well as specific values. And it is easily digested by both human and machine. It is platform-independent, [...]