During the Facebook IPO in May, UBS lost more than $350 million as a results of a glitch in their systems that re-sent buy orders and accumulated 40 million shares that would have to be sold at a loss.
As a software developer, it's not difficult to imagine the type of glitch that might cause such an issue. Something as small as comparing a value to null or improper error handling can cost a company hundreds of millions of dollars, which begs the question, how important are the architects and developers creating these systems?
It's easy to understand...
Friday, August 17, 2012
Friday, August 10, 2012
You're Interviewing Them
Most of us are raised to believe that a job interview is where a potential employer asks you a bunch of questions to see if you're right for the job, but did you know that the best candidates often spend as much time asking questions as answering them?
Asking questions shows that you're serious about the job and indicates potential employment is as much your decision as it is theirs. Questions about culture and coworkers are a great way to take...
Thursday, August 9, 2012
WPF MVVM with WinForms Controls
This is the second part of my series on using MVVM with WPF. In the first article I discussed architecting disconnected applications and how MVVM was a great fit for WPF smart clients as well as Silverlight web clients. Now we move on to the process of refactoring an old Windows Forms application to use this new architecture.
The main concern with changing an underlying technology is the initial investment in rewriting code. To help mitigate this...
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