Following a quick scan of the state of UK supermarket online security, I have repeated the exercise for the big 6 energy providers in the UK.
Here is a snapshot of some trivial checks taken on the 28th January 2016. I hope that by the time you read this, then the situation has been improved. The checks made were rather simple and I am reporting my findings, not making any suggestions or recommendations.
I have used the Waitrose online shopping service for a while and noticed last week that some of their website practices looked less than ideal, so I checked further.
Here is a snapshot of some trivial checks taken on the 25th January 2016. I hope that by the time you read this, then the situation has been improved.
The checks made were rather simple and I am reporting my findings, not making any suggestions or recommendations.
The second article on the topic of testing the Java capabilities of candidates who have applied for a software developers job at Certus Technology. Our process has been outlined in part I. Question 3 on our test aims to understand a bit about the candidates ability to go from a requirement of a method to the implementation. When the question was first written, we thought up what we considered to be a trivial maths problem with an indication of how much space might be needed for the answer.
Certus Technology is a software business and we employ software developers, mainly coding in Java and Groovy. Our recruitment process may not be perfect, but one thing we do is give candidates a simple test in Java programming to help us filter them. The test comprises 11 questions and we give candidates about 20 minutes to provide their answers. Candidates get 1 mark for a good answer, 1/2 a mark for a weak answer and 0 for an incorrect answer.
After many years of moaning about the Internet being full of low quality blogs, I have started my own. I can only hope that I will manage to create useful, entertaining and educational material, and that some people will come and read it.
