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I knew that the first week would be on a trial basis, as they prefer to see people actually do stuff rather than just do interview puzzles. I assumed that, as they were hiring a webdev, the stuff they would ask me to do would be along the lines of web development.
Instead, I was given a back-of-an-envelope spec for a Windows desktop .NET application. It involves a Windows Forms GUI, Data Binding, Active Directory, some kind of logging, and a few other bits and bobs, to be written in C#. Bear in mind that I haven't done any C# or .NET since about 2005, and then only ASP.NET. Oh, and I was to work in Visual Studio 2008, which I've never used before (except the cut-down freeby web dev edition).
Still, by the end of the day I'd got the main components of it working, so with a bit of luck I can get it finished off tomorrow
In addition, as "You have experience of giving training" (which I do, twenty-six years ago) they'd like me to prepare a talk ("just an hour or two") to explain the fundamental principles of XSLT to those of the other devs who aren't too familiar with it. I'm very experienced with XSLT, but given that I have a hard time properly explaining some of the more recondite aspects of it to myself, that promises to be an interesting couple of hours
Ah well, I suspect that if I manage to get through this lot with my sanity and my blood pressure intact, it should mean I've passed the trial. If they'd told me it was to be a week's ordeal, I would have had a better idea of what I was in for
Pies don't seem to be prominent, but I had an extremely nice braised lamb shank in a red wine jus with roast spuds for about three quid at lunchtime
Most excellent. My VooDooFlux Works Canteen Handback clearly states that a full roast dinner is a perfectly acceptable alternative to pork pie, lasagne & chips for lunch.
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