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Website design, SEO and Advertising blog posts compilation
Om Spark has recently re-started blog posts on various topics including Website design, SEO and...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 03/18/2016
Top 10 Best Practices For Website Design
Urmila Singhal from Om Spark recently posted a great article on Top 10 Best Practices For Website...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 03/18/2016
Want to learn more about building online presence?
If you want to learn more about building an online presence, I recommend reading and following...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 06/21/2015
Overall interview evaluation parameters for a software engineer/architect
When giving technical interviews, either as a software engineer or software architect, you are not...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 11/18/2013
How to answer software design interview questions
n the previous post on How to answer algorithmic programming interview questions, we discussed a...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 11/18/2013
How to answer algorithmic programming interview questions
Most technical programming interviews have at least one or more programming whiteboard exercise....
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 11/18/2013
LINQ design interview question
LINQ is one of my favorite interview topics for many reasons. It allows me to check a candidate's...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 04/19/2013
Big list of LINQ interview questions and answers compiled
I have had a number of users ping me asking about writing interview questions on LINQ. I actually...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 04/15/2013
Entity Framework Interview Question - Explain ENUM usage in EF5
Entity Framework 5 introduced support for Enum’s amongst other new features. This was a long...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 03/22/2013
Entity Framework – what are the different ways to configure database name?
Entity Framework allows you to create a model (either using code-first approach or modeling tools)...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 03/21/2013
How to populate a database table with text from a file
Learn about loading text from a file into a database table on my latest blog post on SQL read text...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 03/20/2013
SQL self join or sub-query interview question (employee-manager salary)
One of my favorite interview questions that tips even seasoned SQL guys (maybe because it's too...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 03/20/2013
Advanced programming interview questions and answers
Here is a refresh of my posts on advanced programming interview questions and answers Lost in a...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 03/19/2013
Data migration strategies and design patterns
Data migration is an extremely common operation in software design and development. Whenever a new...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 03/15/2013
SOA interview questions and answers
Learn more about SOA interview questions at...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 01/30/2013
Distributed vs Parallel computing
If you wanted to learn about the key difference between distributed vs parallel computing, check out...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 01/21/2013
How to Boost your Self-Confidence
Having confidence is a very important part of your life. As a human, a developer, a leader you need...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 01/19/2013
Design and Architecture interview questions with answers
Urmila Singhal has written very detailed and interesting posts on how to interview for a technical...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 01/16/2013
Entity framework interview questions compiled
Entity framework is a hot topic these days. With the release of EF 5.0, it has moved into big...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 09/11/2012
JavaScript functions explained
A simple post explaining a few different ways you can write a JavaScript function on my programing...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 07/29/2012
LINQ interview questions part 3
Continuing the LINQ interview questions series, I have posted a third article on LINQ interview...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 07/29/2012
How to time any function
Read my post on how to time a function on my programming interview series blog at...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 07/29/2012
LINQ interview questions part 2
Based on popular demand, LINQ interview questions part 2 is a follow up post to my first LINQ...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 07/28/2012
Programming interview questions with answers covering ASP.NET, jQuery, JAVA, SQL, LINQ, Entity Framework and Regular Expressions
Having a bit of time in the last few weeks, I managed to hammer out some more detailed posts on my...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 07/28/2012
Regular expressions - groups and alternations (Part 3)
Regular expressions are a favorite interview topic. I have recently started writing detailed...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 07/28/2012
Regular expressions interview questions part 2
Continuing on the programming interview series on regular expressions, here is the next installment...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 07/28/2012
Regular expressions interview questions with detailed answers
I recently started a new programming interview question and answer series on regular expressions....
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 07/28/2012
Entity Framework transaction scope examples
I just posted examples on how to use transaction scopes with entity framework on my programming...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 06/07/2012
How to store user passwords using variable length random salt bytes with secure SHA512 cryptographic hashing functions
I just posted a detailed post on How to store user passwords using variable length random salt bytes...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 05/27/2012
Explain C# yield keyword with an example
Getting back to my blogging, I just posted an interview question on my programminginterviews blog on...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 05/22/2012
Developer tools I use - part 2
I recently started a new blog on tools I use (www.ToolsIUse.info) and wrote about my favorite...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 05/22/2012
Developer tools I use - Part 1
I recently started a new blog on tools I use (www.ToolsIUse.info) and wrote about my development...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 05/22/2012
Entity Framework Interview Questions
Today, I started the Entity Framework Interview Questions on my Programming Interview series blog....
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 07/19/2011
Programming Interview Questions and Answers
For those who have been waiting for the next installment of programming interview questions and...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 07/16/2011
Programming Interview Questions on C++, ASP.NET, C#, SQL and LINQ
Reached a milestone today on my quest to make better interview questions with answers. Here...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 06/16/2011
LINQ interview questions
Check out my latest post on LINQ interview questions on my programming interview blog at Programming...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 06/15/2011
LINQ - Group, Sort and Count Words in a sentence by length
In an effort to touch on most of the major technologies for a programming interview, i just wrote my...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 06/14/2011
SQL IF-ELSE and WHILE examples
Check out my latest post on SQL IF-ELSE and WHILE examples as part of SQL programming interview...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 06/13/2011
SQL CASE statement examples
Continuing on my trek to flesh out more on SQL interview questions and answers, i just finished a...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 06/13/2011
How to create a Windows Service in the Component Designer
Microsoft Windows services enable you to create long-running executable applications that run in...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 06/13/2011
New Windows Phone 7 toolkit by Coding4Fun
The dev part of Channel 9 have recently released their latest escapade - Windows Phone 7 toolkit....
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 06/13/2011
SQL GROUP BY and HAVING clauses
Continuing with SQL interview questions, please check out my second SQL post on SQL GROUP BY and...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 06/12/2011
SQL Select Where Interview Questions
Turning my focus on SQL interview questions, please check out my first of many posts on SQL...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 06/12/2011
jQuery Selectors reviewed
Check out my latest post on jQuery Selectors reviewed on my new blog on Programming Interviews...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 06/04/2011
jQuery fadeIn, fadeOut and fadeTo effects
Check out my latest post on jQuery fadeIn, fadeOut and fadeTo effects on my new blog on Programming...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 06/04/2011
Differentiate between alert(), prompt() and confirm() methods
Check out my latest post on Differentiate between alert(), prompt() and confirm() methods on my new...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 06/04/2011
Programming Interview Series
For the last month or so, I have been blogging almost daily in building up a good collection of...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 06/04/2011
jQuery AJAX functions part 3–ajax()
Check out my latest post on jQuery AJAX functions part 3–ajax() on my new blog on Programming...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 06/04/2011
jQuery AJAX functions part 2–get(), post(), getScript() and getJSON()
Check out my latest post on jQuery AJAX functions part 2–get(), post(), getScript() and...
Author: Nikhil Singhal Date: 06/03/2011