The battle for your attention is heating up. Facebook and Google are always in the news, but some interesting news recently shows how competitive these companies are going to get. Several months ago I wrote about this collision course the two companies are on: Facebook is trying to get closer to a real email client… Read More Facebook And Google On A Collision Course
As a software engineer moves throughout their career, they take on more responsibilities. Some of these responsibilities are mentoring junior developers and assisting others that may be having problems. Mentoring is thrown around in many conversations when dealing with senior level professionals. It is assumed that people know what to do when it is mentioned.… Read More Software Engineering Task: Mentoring and Assisting Others
The other day I was asked how much I knew about Java garbage collection. I am not a performance guru, so I admitted that I knew very little, basically only that it works. As the conversation continued, I realized that while I did not know much about the internals of the garbage collection mechanism, I… Read More Simple Tips For Clean Memory Management In Java
PLEASE REVIEW THE MORE RECENT VERSION FOR AUGUST 2010. About 6 months ago, I looked the the job trends for various programming languages. Given that TIOBE released their yearly programming language rankings, I figured I should update the job trends again. In this update, I will use the TIOBE rankings to determine what languages to… Read More Traditional Programming Language Job Trends – February 2010
Well, Steve Jobs dropped a bombshell on people. The iPad was not what people were expecting. As was expected, some people love it and others hate it. However, the one point of agreement between these people is confusion. What exactly is the iPad revolutionizing? There was plenty of hype that the Apple tablet device would… Read More Apple’s iPad Is What Laptops Should Have Been
Every month, TIOBE updates their popular programming language list. I tend to ignore the monthly updates as longer term trends are normally more interesting. Last week, TIOBE released the updated yearly list for 2009. This is where you can see actual language trends. Much to my surprise, TIOBE announced that Google’s Go programming language was… Read More Google’s Go and Apple Development Are Gaining Ground
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