Interview at 11 AM today. A bit (unreasonably) nervous about this one as it is cloud\/java based and will include a coding exercise. It has been almost five years (longer than I remembered but…) since I wrote any Java code so I don’t expect that part to go all that smoothly. I’ve done a bit of review over the weekend but I’ve also had other things to attend to so there’s only so much a few hours can do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Realistically if they’re really just looking for someone with smokin’ java skills and aren’t interested in the rest of my background I’m probably not the right candidate for them but I still tend to stress about these sorts of things. I ramp fast (witness my time with Amazon Robotics) but that doesn’t make struggling with the simple stuff in an interview any more pleasant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The range of potential opportunities makes refreshers much harder. I’ve seen C++. C# and Java based opportunities (and some crossing those lines) along with RTOS, Windows and Linux targets. Add in a bigger mix of places where significant GUI work is involved and I’m dancing all over the place in my reading and bits of sample code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the weekend was doing some OpenCL reading and looking at CUDA a bit. Both interesting technologies but I think I’m going to back-burner then to more OpenGL and C++\/C# stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Given the Tuesday java\/cloud interview I bought the latest Core Java set. Less has changed in the five or so years since I did serious java coding than I expected. I’m still in need of serious refresher on the java front but since the split is 90% other and 10% java and my broader skills in software architecture and design should be front and center for the sort of positions that would be a good match I’m not overly concerned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am thinking about looking at OpenGL from Java a little along the way as I have a copy of ”Pro Java 9 Games Development’ sitting around that uses JavaFX and 3D APIs. Would be good to do a little coding in IntelliJ IDEA again and use some JavaFX code to have another angle on the 3D render stuff…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Interview at 11 AM today. A bit (unreasonably) nervous about this one as it is cloud\/java based and will include a coding exercise. It has been almost five years (longer than I remembered but…) since I wrote any Java code so I don’t expect that part to go all that smoothly. I’ve done a bit … Continue reading Daily – 18 April, 2023<\/span>