by Nirupam Biswas

Why The New Guy Can’t Code

Why The New Guy Can’t Code.

Read the link above to know how IT companies’ technical interview should be. Not asking some quiz. It is really frustrating when you are asked such questions in interview which you know is never going to be needed in the job.  When you get reject because of those questions, and the interviewer chooses to ignore your real-world skills then it becomes darn frustrating.

I remember getting screened out of Amdocs’ first round of written exams because of some maths question!  How the hell maths question decided how my CS knowledge is? They might reason that there are too many candidates and interviewing all is not possible; well if that is so then why not use lucky draw? Because such arbitrary questions and lucky draw will give same result, and lucky draw is easier to conduct. Well yes, lucky draw will draw much more criticism, so we are bound to see such arbit questions anyway.

So, all the best job seekers.

by Nirupam Biswas

Installing nodeJs in Windows (The easiest way)

The immensely exciting nodejs is not really made to run on Windows, but like me, if you want to develop on a Windows system then you will need to install it on Windows.

Installing nodeJs on Windows

  1. Get the Windows binary from http://node-js.prcn.co.cc/. Download the complete package. The current version is 0.4.4. You can download it from http://node-js.prcn.co.cc/bin/0.4.4/node-0.4.4-i686-pc-cygwin-complete.7z.
  2. Create a directory (preferably with no spaces in its full path) and extract the contents of above 7z file into that. (You will need free 7zip to extract it.) Let this directory be C:\node.
  3. Create folder etc in the above folder, i.e. inside C:\node. So etc folder will be in the same folder as bin, lib etc folders.
  4. Inside the above etc folder create a file resolv.conf.
  5. Inside the above file paste the following:-
    nameserver 8.8.8.8
    nameserver 8.8.4.4

Using npm

npm is the popular package manager for nodejs now. So, to be able to use this is absolutely necessary.

  1. Launch cmd (Windows Command).
  2. Type cd C:\node\bin (if node is folder where you extracted the node binaries).
  3. Type shell.
  4. Now run your npm as – node npm install <package name> (without the angle brackets of course).