William Knight has been developing software for 20 years and writing about it for two. His career has taken him around the world twice and onto the staff of a selection of the worlds largest companies. He currently lives and works in Devon in the UK.
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Is the Java certification program offered by Sun really the route to a higher
salary and better quality of code for businesses? I have my doubts.
In my fifth year of Java programming, after being involved in several
distributed developments for large companies, a prospective employer tested
my ability. "Don't worry," he said, "you'll have no trouble; this is for
beginners."
Unfortunately I failed and was embarrassed - it was a dismal score. He asked
me why I had scored so low and with my career and self-belief crushed and
broken and in ruins on the grey carpet-tiles, I mumbled something about IDEs,
esoteric details of thread control, and tricky default behavior. I dashed
from the building and imagined him later berating the agent for send... (more)
William Knight has been developing software for 20 years and writing about it for two. His career has taken him around the world twice and onto the staff of a selection of the worlds largest companies. He currently lives and works in Devon in the UK.
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