User:Graveca

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Graveca is hoping to contribute in the coming years.

[edit] Pages that I find interesting

• Recent Deaths - Always being updated (for some reason!?!)
• Getting things done - uber life methodology
• Lateral thinking - Whats that about
• Thinking outside the box - What does it mean
• Pirate game - How to survive with limited gold
• Ship of Theseus - Is something that's had all it's parts replaced the same thing?

[edit] Technology

Software engineering:

• Iterative development - The development cycle
• Waterfall model - Traditional development model
• Continuous integration - Or, "you broke the build"
• Object Relational Mapping - Find out about Spring/Hibernate etc
• Design patterns - Design reuse
• Anti patterns - Things to avoid
• Dependency hell - A->B->C->A etc
• Coupling and Cohesion - Idea of quality
• Syntactic sugar - Increasing readability of languages
• signal.h - Signals

Tools:

• Apache Maven - for repository plugin based builds
• Java Version History - All the different java versions
• Isolation handling - Dirty reads from RBDMS

Threading:

• Dining philosophers - Classic resource issues
• Race condition - Timing errors in software
• Double-checked locking - And solution using volatile

[edit] Finance

• Bond duration - Sensitivity of bond price to IR movements
• Time value of money - Present/future value
• Derivative - Financial derivative
• IRD - Interest rate derivatives
• APL and A+ - Mathematical programming
• MATLAB - Another tool for programming