I felt I needed to write this, as we have been interviewing for a bit in Cognitive Match, for various segments of our technical team and we had occasionally bad luck with the candidates who turned up. Having been on both sides of the recruiting fence in my life, I realise that a certain percentage […]
Monthly Archives: June 2012
A Lesson in Class a la California :-)
Who said that Californians drive only 4×4’s and above? Check out this big bad boy, as seen in a Safeway car park (for real!):
Out and About in One of the Parks in Cupertino This Weekend
Felt a bit like being in St James’s Park in London — minus the rainy weather 🙂
Simplify Your Singletons
I’ve seen recently some Java code (I’m not telling whose, you probably know who you are :p) where a singleton pattern was involved. Nothing unusual here, you would say — and you’re right, I probably found myself using Singleton and Factory and Observer in pretty much every single Java project I ever worked on. The […]
Exhibition artisticlab.org in Bucharest
On Tuesday, 22nd of May 2012, artisticlab had an exhibition in Bucharest. Unfortunately, being in California and all that, I wasn’t there for the live event, but I am lucky enough to be the receiver of some of the photos taken at launch. As to be expected, this was very well received by the public, […]
Freaky Crabs
As seen in a Chinese market, in California, USA — dare to put your finger in the box? 🙂