Usability is always an interesting topic. In some cases, you are dealing with how difficult something is to complete. However, some people decide to make sure that a task is fundamentally difficult to use, no matter how simple it is supposed to be. Some of the worst offenders are the online education providers. While they… Read More The Pinnacle of Bad Usability, Checkbox Edition
The holiday season typically brings lots of vacation time for people. Instead of sitting around and being lazy, why not take the time to learn a new programming language? I am not recommending a specific language over others at this time, but providing a long list of languages based on GitHub and TIOBE. I have… Read More The Big List of 256 Programming Languages
In my quest to learn the spanish language, I have tried several online learning options. As with any learning experience, if you do not practice enough you will not progress in your learning. The problem most people have with online learning is remembering to practice. For some people, they just forget to do it and… Read More The Art Of The Email Nag
This is a guest post from Krister Ungerboeck, the CEO of Ungerboeck Software International. The most successful event planners have started using mobile technology to more quickly connect with customers and meet their needs. New mobile applications can drive business to their websites and help them provide better service. Yet, current mobile technology has several… Read More HTML5’s Value For Mobile Event Apps
I recently attended the PhillyETE conference and there were a number of interesting talks. In particualar, I was a big fan of the talk from Alex Payne regarding Emerging Programming Languages. One of the languages that I found interesting, Opa, seemed more than just a language, and conveniently someone emailed me about it. That someone… Read More A Q&A With Opa Creator Henri Binsztok
This is a guest post from Christian Arno, the founder of Lingo24. Why is software localization important? The very nature of software applications means they can usually be accessed, bought and downloaded regardless of geographic location. The World Wide Web provides potential access to a truly global market but a monolingual application is one with limited… Read More Tips For Developing Multilingual Software Applications
Lately, Dave Winer has been doing a lot of thinking. Dave has been around for a while, so when he starts thinking about interesting questions, we should all be listening. However, I am not saying that we should be agreeing with him, just reading and forming opinions. First, Dave complains about mobile apps and how… Read More Is The Web Really Just Links Or Is It Evolving?
Last year, I wrote a post entitled 9 Programming Languages To Watch In 2011. Now that 2011 is basically over, let’s see what happened to these languages over the course of the year. As a reminder, these languages were selected because I expected to see larger than average movement, either up or down. So, there… Read More What Happened To The 9 Programming Languages To Watch in 2011
Like many software developers, I have toyed with many languages over the years. Some languages have grown in popularity and others have waned. Today, I would like to give thanks to those esoteric, arcane, rare and industry changing languages in a nice A-Z listing. Some are old, some are new, some are popular, some are… Read More Giving Thanks To Arcane Programming Languages
How quickly we forget what the dark ages of RDBMS was like. Researching NoSQL solutions is not much different than researching RDBMS software in the mid-90s. Each solution had their problems, some of them severe, and most of the problems would be fixed within a few short release cycles. So, the current problem is how… Read More Researching NoSQL Is No Different Than The Early RDBMS Market
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