I interview prospective developers for my company almost every week, and over time have developed a bit of a sixth sense for sussing out talent. Here are a couple of the hallmarks that I look out for during an interview. Low ego Our company is made up of approximately 95%…

I cringe when I see this sort of code: var names = new List<string> { "tom", "dan", "warren" }; // Find the longest name in the list // var longest = names.First(); foreach (var name in names) { if (name.Length > longest.Length) { longest = name; } } Why is it so cringe-worthy? Because it's…

This is part 1 of a multi-part post on programming fundamentals. This stuff may seem fairly pedestrian to some folks, but then it's probably not targetted at you. The mysterious pass by reference thing And that actually there is no such thing as "pass by reference" but simply that when…