New Job, Who Dis?
Stack Attack
Saint Jacob, James, Jake or Jim
Hooked on NATO Phonics
nested exception is java.lang.StackOverflowError
100

This person is the FSI Program Manager for MTC2 2.0

Who is Eric Walls?

100

The Java compiler turns your Java code into this instruction set so it can run in the Java Virtual Machine.

What is bytecode?

100

A member of any of certain religious orders of men, especially the four mendicant orders: Augustinians, Carmelites, Dominicans, Franciscans. Also, the Padres mascot.

What are friars?

100

This is the only NATO telephony that shares the name of a calendar month.

What is November?
100

The process of finding why there is a problem in code, setting log messages or breakpoints are two of many useful options to aid this process.

What is debugging?

200

This person is the President of FSI

Who is Carlos Persichetti?

200

It can be lunar.  It can be solar.  But unless you are Michael Calderon and using IntelliJ instead, we all use this tool for developing our code.

What is Eclipse?

200

It's the world's largest urban cultural park, and it's a 10 minute drive from the Mission Valley office.

What is Balboa Park?

200

It's the capital and the largest city of Peru

What is Lima?

200

Commonly referred to by a three letter acronym, this exception occurs when trying to access a field on an object that has not been instantiated

What is Null Pointer Exception (NPE)?

300

One of them is the H.R. Manager.  The other is the field security officer.

Who are Karla and Linda?

300

Sharing the last name of the German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer "Franz", this Apache-licensed distributed message broker is the pub/sub message bus of choice for FSI's MTC2 battle management aides.

What is Kafka?

300

With over 700,000 flora, this popular San Diego attraction qualifies as a botanic garden and was the setting for the climax in Anchor Man starring Will Farrell.

What is the San Diego Zoo?

300

These are William Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers

Who are Romeo and Juliet?

300

If configured properly, these files can be used to monitor the state of the application

What are log files?

400

This person is on the Pedal for the Cause board of directors and has raised over $40,000 for cancer research

Who is Dale McIntosh?

400

In FSI's MTC2 MVC architecture, this Javascript library is used to implement the View and this relational database is used to implement the Model.

What are React and Postgres?

400

A popular spray invented in San Diego in 1953 by someone who must have really hated squeaky hinges.

What is WD40?

400

In Spanish, this slang can be used to describe an object of poor quality. Usually a video camera or a microphone. It's also a popular starch. Pass the ketchup please.

What is Papa?

400

This keyboard shortcut enables dev tools for both Chrome and Firefox.

What is CTRL + SHIFT + I?/What is F12?

500

This person is the Director of Engineering

Dave Parillo

500

This XML file is used by Apache Maven to execute plugins that help compile, package, install, deploy, and do pretty much anything you can imagine with your build artifacts.

What is a POM?

500

This local university is home to the most significant collection of Dr. Seuss manuscripts in the entire world.

What is U.C. San Diego?

500

The NATO telephony for telling someone their fly is unzipped

What is X-Ray, Yankee, Zulu?

500

This specification is leveraged through annotations on MTC2 2.0 code for exposing REST services, enabling a REST documentation page that outlines all inputs and outputs for the services.

What is OpenAPI or Swagger?