Mike Kovacina 4-28-11
Host Team: Byron Kazek, Dan Klufas, Paul Tagliamonte
Works at Hyland Software
- 6-8 weeks of training to start job
- Everyone has the same base about the company
- People still run OnBase 3.6 —> currently working on 11.0
- Able to upgrade straight out from every old version without patches (extremely impressive feat)
- Software is purely additive because of this
- Currently/Recently working on a project with Allscripts (Small medical software company)
Offline mode project
- Multiple problems
- How can we push documents offline and in a managed fashion?
- How can we create documents offline then push into OnBase when we connect?
- Faked IIS – proof of concept
- Used a "switch" to interrupt and redirect connection.
- Since a lot of the code has to be copied, it is hard to catch some runtime errors
Software engineering project
- went against the whole team idea -> divide and conquer
- turned out it was pseudo divide and conquer because everyone checked other parts
- Took same approach at Hyland for some projects
Mike's Tid Bits
- QA Person = Make friends with this person!
- can really save you
- Check Ins – scary thought breaking the whole build (and nightlies)
- not the worst thing in the world – once locked out QA by breaking remoting
- JUST MAKE SURE TO BE AROUND TO FIX IT FAST!
- Being able to write is important to get things done as well as getting ideas across
- COMMUNICATION SKILLS
- Corp vs Start up – you have to like where you’re working
- Start up – learn many skills and practice them (liberal arts stuff)
- How to present properly
- Learn your weaknesses
- better understanding of these things
- Start up – learn many skills and practice them (liberal arts stuff)
- Interview process
- At Hyland, everyone takes the same interview test no matter what position you are applying for
- When asked about salary, it's better to give a "data" value and not a guess
- Asked multiple questions about being a developer and coding
- Design patterns
- Data Structure
- Stock is good option
- Unity – overused term
- Need profit for profit sharing!
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