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Interviewing
- How to Prove Your Skills During an Interview
- How to Jumpstart a Stalled Job Search
- 10 Things to Bring Up In an Interview
- Why Technical Interviews Work (And Why They Don’t)
- Interview Questions for SharePoint Architects
- Resumes: How to Effectively List Technical Skills
- Technical Interviews: The Good and the Bad
Consulting
Training
Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET Released
This v2.0 update of the Windows Azure SDK for .NET was released. This is a major refresh of the Windows Azure SDK with some really great new features and enhancements. These new capabilities include:
- Web Sites: Visual Studio Tooling updates for Publishing, Management, and for Diagnostics
- Cloud Services: Support for new high memory VM sizes, Faster Cloud Service publishing & Visual Studio Tooling for configuring and viewing diagnostics data
- Storage: Storage Client 2.0 is now included in new projects & Visual Studio Server Explorer now supports working with Storage Tables
- Service Bus: Updated client library with message pump programming model support, support for browsing messages, and auto-deleting idle messaging entities
- PowerShell Automation: Updated support for PowerShell 3.0, and lots of new PowerShell commands for automating Web Sites, Cloud Services, VMs and more.
For more info, click here.
I hope everyone in the Orange County area will attend this session at the SoCal .NET Architecture User Group on 5/16 @ 7pm.
Rock Your Technical Interview
Have you ever not gotten a job due to not being prepared for the technical interview? I’ve have interviewed 100′s of software developers and will share my knowledge on how to survive, what we look for and even divulge some of the secrets we use during the process. This session will include advice from engineers just like you that have recently landed a new job!
Here is what people say about this session:
- Bill W. – Good information! I had forgotten to study the technical questions, did that this morning and I felt I aced my technical interview just now
Thanks Dave! - Daniel I. – Great presentation because you made me realize that I’m not doing enough to better my career! You struck a chord when you said we should keep our resume up-to-date and on-hand at all times. Thanks for helping me realize something I should have been doing a long time ago.
All slides and videos can be found here: http://www.slideshare.net/dotNetDave and on YouTube.
Please rate this session by going to SpeakerRate.
A DVD for this session (sponsored by TechTalent) will be available for only $10. Credit cards accepted.
INETA Excellence Award (Lifetime Achievement) Award
In 2008 I won the INETA Excellence Award (Lifetime Achievement) award. This award is very special to me since it was given to me by my fellow developers.
dotNetDave on RussCam – Desert Code Camp 2012
Here is a great interview by RussCam of me (dotNetDave) done at the 2012 Desert Code Camp:
Rock Your Technical Interview @ SQL Saturday
I hope everyone in the Orange County area will attend this session at SQL Saturday on 4/20.
Rock Your Technical Interview
Track 3 – Room: Tech 100 @ 2:45
Have you ever not gotten a job due to not being prepared for the technical interview? I’ve have interviewed 100′s of software developers and will share my knowledge on how to survive, what we look for and even divulge some of the secrets we use during the process. This session will include advice from engineers just like you that have recently landed a new job!
Here is what people say about this session:
- Bill W. – Good information! I had forgotten to study the technical questions, did that this morning and I felt I aced my technical interview just now Thanks Dave!
- Daniel I. – Great presentation because you made me realize that I’m not doing enough to better my career! You struck a chord when you said we should keep our resume up-to-date and on-hand at all times. Thanks for helping me realize something I should have been doing a long time ago.
All slides and videos can be found here: http://www.slideshare.net/dotNetDave and on YouTube.
Please rate this session by going to SpeakerRate.
A DVD for this session (sponsored by TechTalent) will be available for only $10. Credit cards accepted.
Retrieving Application Settings
Here is a safe, generic way to retrieve application settings.
public static T GetAppSetting<T>(string key)
{
if (ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.AllKeys.Contains(key))
{
return (T)System.Convert.ChangeType(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[key],
typeof(T), CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
}
else
{
return default(T);
}
}
Usage
int serverPort = GetAppSetting<int>("server_port");
