Gayle Laakmann McDowell | Technology Woman

After I left Google and got the travel bug out of my system, I joined a tiny funded start-up called EmptySpaceAds. What excited me about EmptySpaceAds was more than just the product (although that was pretty neat) – it was the opportunity. With just one employee, EmptySpaceAds was small enough that I would lead the [...]

Google App Engine: “We will be taking memcache offline tomorrow morning from 9-10am PST (GMT-8) for routine maintenance. Calls to the memcache API will *not* throw exceptions but will instead return false for set() calls and None for get() calls (just like any other cache miss.) Your app should continue serving normally during this period, [...]

I’ve been using Talkinator, an embeddable chat program for websites, for a few months now. I realize I might be the only post-1995 site to want a chatroom, but it’s actually rather useful. For example, when people are discussing, say, Microsoft Interview Questions, they’ll jump in the chatroom to discuss problems. This use was expected. [...]

500 Microsoft Interview Questions on CareerCup —– As the founder of CareerCup, the web’s largest source for technical interview questions, I have over 500 Microsoft Interview Questions at my disposal, with more added every day. Everyday people ask me what they should study before their Microsoft interview. So, without further ado, I present the the [...]