Whether or not you intend to be an SQL programmer (ever, or for the rest of your life), you will spend a large amount of your time in IT modeling data. For now, throw the MVC meaning of model out the window, or if you happen to be on the 17th floor, just put it [...]

English is the most orthographically difficult language written with the Roman alphabet, meaning, there are not always clues to a word’s pronunciation from its spelling, and the reverse. Only speakers of English can enjoy the perverse event of the grammar school Spelling Bee. I was so bad at spelling in school that I assumed it [...]

Bungled interviews go back a long way, and a mythological example comes to us from The Ring of the Niebelungen. Wotan, the God who had Valhalla built, and Mime, a dwarf, have a mutual interview that goes awry. At the start, they agree to bet their heads on their abilities to answer each other’s questions. Things do not [...]

There always seems to be an interviewer who is out to make his mark by asking the big-O question. Not that big-O question, but the one where a data structure is presented with little of the real world information that might accompany its use, and then the question is asked “What’s the big-O notation for [...]