It may sound arrogant, but your research didn't find Paul and me, so it's not there yet.
I had to re-write the Quant Dev and IT parts of Guide 2.0 three times from scratch before I got rid off the vast horde of ifs, buts, and maybes this entails.
Short version boils down to what sort of programming you have done. GUI and database stuff is of little value to the quant developer.
C++ is important, and and please, please don't say Java.
Real programming means threads, STL and Boost.
Since you are saying you are a s/w engineer interviewers will question you on this, and saying "I guess this is like in Java" is pretty poisonous.
You also need to suss out numerical methods, and learning XLL/DLL won't hurt.
