Two excellent articles lead your reading today. First, Stack Overflow reports on their 2015 developer survey. It is an interesting look into the people that frequent the site which could be seen as a representative sample of our industry. On Road Less Travelled, we get a first hand account of one man’s experiences at Apple… Read More Geek Reading April 9, 2015
Amazon announced new “dense-storage” instances for EC2. This is not huge news but interesting in terms of trends. For the longest time, the big difference has been CPU or memory. Google Online Security talks about getting rid of unwanted ad injectors. These are terribly annoying and can really make a browser unusable in some cases.… Read More Geek Reading April 1, 2015
Some more unpleasantness leading off today as VentureBeat reports on the DDoS attack on GitHub continuing and evolving. Also from VentureBeat, Google has started morphing some of Google+ as photos and videos are now available in Google Drive. By itself, this is not a big thing, but we know that Google has not been thrilled… Read More Geek Reading March 31, 2015
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
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
