Thanks to Hemingway and everyone for the suggestions.

<t>I hope some Rec. Consultants can help. I may need to negotiate a salary with a firm in Singapore, I'm currently based in London.I've been asked for salary expectations. I know that I would need to take into consideration, tax, cost of living etc...,but could some friendly recruitment consultant s...

<t>I'd skip Fiji, Bainimarama the military ruler took over in 2006. The military took over from indigenous Fijian's, there is now an Indo-Fiji military government. Tonga too has had its fair share of unrest , some of it the result of cash-for-passports immigration from China. If it was the South Sea...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: dazmbkHow do you pronounce the following:For one point:Susquehanna (sus ka hana?)For three points:Jeff Yass (jass with a silent j?)For ten points:Bala Cynwyd (bala kin wid?)Cheers.Wikipedia if your friend ... Bala Cynwyd lies in the Welsh Tract of Pennsylvania, and was ...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: TraderJoe[/bIn no way an endorsement , but many a company/organisation has run aground by underestimating microsoft. They have the brand, money, muscle and the programmers.We'll see.Less the programmers. They have the programmers that produced Vista. I rest my case M'Lu...

<t>Just a personal view, but '** Certified ' on a CV is something that I immediately ignore at best. I think for Oracle DBA's maybe it would be useful, I don't really know. But really I've found such certifications for developers to be meaningless, in practice. Through experience, I'm actually wary ...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: fremih01I am about to start writing a new model lib in C#/C++ and have many thoughts how the interface should be defined. The model lib will be called from another system and excel. I want to have the flexibility to script my products and have all the in-house models un...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: congaI've been working in software businesses for over 20 years and in banking and finance for over 6. Most of my finance work has been as a coder and/or model builder.Since moving into banking and finance I have seen a great need for 2 things:First, people with quantit...

<r>QuoteOriginally posted by: brownie74On the subject of interfaces decoupling from implementation.You are merely removing an explicit coupling and replacing with an implicit one.Mapping code to/from canonical form is semantically the same as an API call.I'd recommend this book:Large-Scale C++ Softw...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: brownie74Coding to interfaces: the most misused "OO" concept.You write a class, extract an interface and make your class implement the interface. Then, do you expect a second class to be able to implement that interface sensibly?You cannot generalise from a sample of 1....

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnIn that case, I do _not_ agree. Java is OO and has no procedures. You _cannot_ program in a non-OO way in Java, with the exception of generics in 1.5!Of course you can, I've seen awful non-OO Java code, A "class" full of statics and huge methods - its just (ba...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnQuoteYou are not forced to do OO programming in Java. Class do not imply OO. You can make everything static if you like and follow a procedural style. You can write functional style in Java. You have functors/currying - anonymous inner classes.Nope, no, nicht,...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: brownie74Smart pointers, reference counting, writing new() to work off your own pool of memory, in C++ ... Java is better because there are less ways to skin a cat. I agree with most of what you said. But the above, I'm not so sure. Java is better in many cases (blotter...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: jawabeanQuoteOriginally posted by: MichaelLgetting decent Java developers is very very difficultit's hard to find good developers regardless of the language. i've wroked with some finest developers who do Java. there's a lot of Java developers, because C++ is on the bri...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: jawabeanQuoteOriginally posted by: MichaelLIf you want 'more OO' then you'd pick Objective-C or Smalltalk or Ruby.what makes u think that Objective-C or Smalltalk are more OO than C++? do u know Smalltalk?Yes I know Smalltak, at one point Bankers Trust had their own lan...