bwalk2895

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I've been working with Microsoft's .NET technology since I graduated from Utah State University with a degree in MIS way back in December of 2003. To put it in perspective, when I was first hired out of college my co-workers were talking about upgrading to .NET 1.1. My career has taken me through several industries, advertising, publishing, telemarketing, and most recently the oil industry. This has allowed me to work on several different aspects of the .NET framework from simple WinForms applications, to ASP.NET applications, windows services, WCF services, web services, and even good old command line programs (gotta love those!). I originally cut my teeth on VB.NET but now work in C#. The primary database I now connect to is Oracle, but my previous jobs had me working in SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2008 R2.

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Jul 19	comment	What is the logic behind filtering/sanitizing input? If I had to venture a guess it is probably because they want something like that locked down by default, to prevent less experienced developers from causing huge security problems. I think back to the developer I was at the very start of my career and chances are I would have made a mistake like that. Framework makers have to sometimes write for the lowest common denominator, which causes some headaches for the more experienced developers.
Jul 11	comment	Storing IEnumerable as instance variable - is it a code smell to expect it to change? Returning the list as IEnumerable is separating code through interfaces, which is always a big plus for me.
Jul 10	comment	What if globals make sense? In the example I gave the singleton only existed in one area of the code, the service layer. All other layers accepted it as a parameter, which allows the code to be decoupled. The other layers do not care how the object was instantiated, all it cares about is that it was instantiated at some point. If other areas of the service layer need it they can certainly use it, but when passed to the other layers of the application it would be seen as any other variable. However if other layers change it then a singleton could end up being a large headache, and code should be in place to prevent it
Jul 9	comment	Automated tests for differencing algorithm Automated tests typically deal with static data. If your source text is static, and your modified copy is static, shouldn't the end result always be the same?
Jun 29	comment	Should i expect real world questions from interviewing agency ? That is good to hear! Good luck!
Jun 28	comment	How to get motivation and time to learn outside of work? I agree. Plus you become a more well-rounded person.
Jun 20	comment	What is expected of me as a recent graduate? I guess there are two schools of thought to internships. One is a temp employee for the summer, and typically we give them one-off projects that fills a need but not very business critical. The other is a intern-to-hire. The internship continues into the school year, they work 40 hours a week during the summer and 20 hours a week (ideally, most of the time much less) when school is going on. Those interns work on production code just like the regular full time employees. When they graduate they are typically hired as full timers.