syllabus - skills

Mac OS X
- From 10.3 to 10.8 (everyday from 2004)
- Homebrew: install and search packages
Google App Engine
- From 1.6.4 Python
- Base knowledge
- Used to host the static content of this site
Mercurial
- learned to manage my projects and notes at university
- I used to frequently pull/push/merge
- now I'm using it to manage my website and to pull Mozilla Thunderbird/Firefox sources
- getting to know tags and branches
Git
- learned to use Github
- pull/push and branch
- merge
- I prefer using the command line for speed and advanced scenarios (such as git-tfs)
Github/Bitbucket - base usage (repository creation, commit)
LaTeX
- Used heavily during university (2004-2009) for dissertations and notes
- Used to write the CV
- Basic management operation for TeX Live 2011/2012 (package update)
- Base usage of TexShop/TexWorks (although I now prefer to use a text editor and Make)
Ubuntu
- Versions 8.04 LTS, 10.04 LTS, 12.04 LTS, 12.10
- Base usage, package installation, distribution upgrade
Fedora
- Versions 16/17/18
- Base usage, package management with yum, upgrade with fedup and preupgrade
Virtualization
- Virtualbox -- useful the conversion utility for hard disk files
- Vmware Fusion and Player (my favorites) -- confortable with editing vmx files
- Virtual PC 2007 / Windows Virtual PC
Ruby
- Installation with RVM and RubyInstaller
- Gem Installation
Jekyll
- Used to set up this site
- layout, use of Liquid templating system
- use of jekyll-press to minify the content
- Experiment with extensions of the Liquid templating system (see on Github)
Markdown/Textile
- Preference for the latter mainly for the nested list facility
Team Foundation Server 2010
- Brief experience with backup/restore
- can leverage the command line tool tf
- familiar with workspace concept
Visual Sourcesafe 6.0 — used before TFS
SSH
- client use
- SFTP
- little experience using it from .NET
VNC
- client use
- basic server setup
Python
- Use of virtualenv
- Package installation with pip
Joomla
- basic installation used prepackaged distribution
- basic page creation and layout
- use of templates
Visual Basic 6
- practiced alone and at school around 1999-2004
Bash
autofs
- Used to easily mount SMB shares on my Linux machines
LLBLGen Pro 2/3/3.1
- version 3/3.1 used only with LBLLGen Pro Runtime
ACS 2.0
- experience with management through OData API (using the samples at acs.codeplex.com and http://servicebus.codeplex.com/)
GNU Make
- some sample Makefile for projects done during university
- now using it to typeset my CV
Heroku
- Toying a little bit with Clojure
.NET
- started with 1.1
- most experience on 3.5/4.0
- basic use of Nuget
- WCF
- WPF/Windows Forms
  - disclaimer: I’m not quite good with UI design and construction, I’m more confortable with CLI tools and “under the hood” coding
  - familiar with MVVM concept
  - used briefly Prism, seen code using MVVMLight
  - familiar with Infragistics controls (in particular grid and combobox)
- played briefly with Unity, Service Locator and dependency injection
- GDI+
  - brief experience for the development of a visual document and label editor. I’ve implemented it through a retained mode graphics system inspired by this article from Bob Powell
SQL Compact CE
- experience with 3.5 SP2 on Windows 7
Lucene.NET
SQLite 3
- used with System.Data.Sqlite
- PRAGMA synchronous to change file flush policy and impact of transactions on performance
- Write Ahead Log to improve concurrency (concurrent reader and writers instead of the standard locking mechanism)
- PRAGMA integrity_check to ensure the database is not corrupt
- awareness about interaction with OS and disks
LogMeIn (free), RDP, VNC
(very briefly) Apache Camel
(very briefly) Garbage Collection (seen in Java)
SQL Server 2008/2008 R2
- use of bcp (through SQLAzureMW) to copy huge amounts of data between database
- use of SQL Azure
- basic understanding of isolation levels
Regular expressions
- used in sed and .NET
- familiar with longest/shortest matches
- familiar with group substitution
sed
- able to write simple substitutions and to code them into scripts/Makefile
DirectShow
- used through a .NET wrapper Directshow.NET
- used also a Windows Media Format SDK, WindowsMedia.NET
- enumeration of capture devices with capabilities
- grab of still pictures from capture devices (with or without still pin)
- capture of video capture devices and subsequent encoding in WMV format
- used primarily under Windows Forms, using interoperability also under WPF
vi
- used to edit file while under CLI
- basic command (insert, save, quit)
Java
- mainly school usage
- JavaBeans convention
Java EE
- brief overview of the various components of the technology
- some insights into servlet technology
- played with Jetty, Tomcat, Glassfish to run Jenkins
Hardware tinkering
- some experience in teardown and reassemble of notebooks
- I assembled several times my old iBook G4, trying to “fix” logic board fault (more details here)
- some minor experiences with old Dell portables (it’s easy with service guides)
HTML5/CSS
- use of media queries (media) to apply CSS elements depending on device capabilities (for responsive web design)
Javascript/jQuery
- base usage based on answer search on stackoverflow
- refresh a page
- base validation with jQuery and jQuery Globalize
ASP.NET MVC 4
- confortable with the Model-View-Controller paradigm
- better than plain ASP.NET
- use of Razor to create pages
- used Javascript in pages to pass additional data to model
Jenkins
- first glimpse of Maven
- used to automate build of Visual Studio projects
Windows Azure
- using it from October 2009
- quite knowledgeable in Service Bus and its features
- explored ACS 2.0 and its use in Service Bus (not well documented)
Windows
- using it from Windows 95
- 95, 98, 2000, XP, 7, 8
- little experience with server versions (2003, 2008)
Squid
- simple install of 2.7 on Windows - little attention on security :-(
- used to test the (lack of) compatibility of Windows Azure Service Bus with HTTP 1.0 proxies
IIS
- I know how a request from IIS is handled to ASP.net
- deadlock in ASP.net to threadpool contention
- basic tuning by changing the base parameters (thread pool, WCF settings, ...)

syllabus - skills

Skills