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Links for 2009-05-14

Episode 16: Green To The Selenium Scene | Faceoff Show - A podcast discussing selenium and mechanical turk.
assertTrue( ): One of the toughest job-interview questions ever - The author talks about a question he got at a job interview, and goes on to provide a reasonable recap/discussion about hash tables. This is generally the kind of answer I look for when I ask similar questions. 9/10 candidates I talk with can't actually discuss a hash function, and don't know how to create one.
8 Tips for Crafting Metrics That Matter - Metrics are the marketer’s microscope. They show him what his customers are actually doing, as opposed to what they say they are doing or intend to do. With proper metrics he can make decisions faster and more accurately. You can decide to measure anything, but what metrics matter and what ones are just for show? Here are some rules I hope will guide you toward creating meaningful metrics that help, rather than hinder, the decision-making process.
The Secrets Of Great Teamwork - Forbes.com - Beautiful Teams: Inspiring and Cautionary Tales from Veteran Team Leaders, a compilation of Q&As and essays edited by Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene, offers advice from O'Reilly Media founder Tim O'Reilly and a host of software industry luminaries. Here's a Q&A with O'Reilly excerpted from the new book.
Best Practices for building JSON REST Web Services « Building Feedly - A few useful notes on building JSON REST WS. In particular, I like that the Compendium API maps so closely to what they recommend :) The additional notes on phase 7, adding lifecycle, I also found interesting/useful.
Readings in Database Systems Web Supplement - This book is one of the fundamental database theory books available today. A list of the papers featured in the book, as well as various lecture notes, are listed. Need to track down some of these papers.

This is a collection of links I have bookmarked on del.icio.us for the date 2009-05-14