Yes, CoreData is a focus of experience in itself. CoreData apparently was based off of what was in WebObjects?
It looks like the iPhone SDK was officially released on March 6, 2008. I think I could be a brutal interviewer with my one year. For example, tell me how you would design a CoreData-based app with a table showing how far you were from a list of addresses (that you had lat/long for). There are a lot of gotchas (background thread, if you wanted distance-based section headers...) that could only be learned by hands-on coding. There is only so much you can learn from a book or lecture - at some point you are going to need to dive in - so you yourself could give a talk on what was left out...
I think even "simple" stuff like how to implement a loading view could quickly ferret out the doers from the pretenders. And the next level would be asking how they would create custom UITableViewCells. And so on... But the important thing, is there are some pretenders who want to become doers - those are the ppl I think you want - and the ones that big companies can't identify. The programmers who love problem solving, who love figuring things out.
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Yes, CoreData is a focus of experience in itself. CoreData apparently was based off of what was in WebObjects?
It looks like the iPhone SDK was officially released on March 6, 2008. I think I could be a brutal interviewer with my one year. For example, tell me how you would design a CoreData-based app with a table showing how far you were from a list of addresses (that you had lat/long for). There are a lot of gotchas (background thread, if you wanted distance-based section headers...) that could only be learned by hands-on coding. There is only so much you can learn from a book or lecture - at some point you are going to need to dive in - so you yourself could give a talk on what was left out...
I think even "simple" stuff like how to implement a loading view could quickly ferret out the doers from the pretenders. And the next level would be asking how they would create custom UITableViewCells. And so on... But the important thing, is there are some pretenders who want to become doers - those are the ppl I think you want - and the ones that big companies can't identify. The programmers who love problem solving, who love figuring things out.