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
Many people talk about the things a software engineer needs to know in order to be successful in their job. Other people talk about the traits needed to be successful. Typically, these posts may read differently but there are many similarities between the two posts. In reality, a software can never really be successful without… Read More 15 Tenets For The Software Engineer
Once again, it is time for the job trends for traditional programming languages. Just like the last update, we are only looking at Java, C++, C#, Objective C, Perl and Visual Basic. I know people will complain about some other language not being included or whether “traditional” is bad terminology, but this is what I have for now.… Read More Traditional Programming Language Job Trends – August 2011
In my daily work, I use both an RDBMS and MarkLogic, an XML database. MarkLogic can be considered akin to the newer NoSQL databases, but it has the added structure of XML and standard languages in XQuery and XPath. The NoSQL databases are typically storing documents or key-value pairs, and some other things in between. Given… Read More Is Object Serialization Evil?
As is typical in the blogosphere, people will latch onto whatever topic is popular or controversial. Today, I read an interesting post from Michael Arrington regarding the responses to his investment policy. In his “Screw Them All” post, he says something very interesting, and possibly obvious to some people: the really important thing to remember,… Read More Acknowledge Your Bias And Succeed
It is that time again, time for the job trends for traditional programming languages. Just like the last update, we are only looking at Java, C++, C#, Objective C, Perl and Visual Basic. I know people will complain about some other language not being included, but I am trying to find a good way to determine what languages… Read More Traditional Programming Language Job Trends – February 2011
The Java is dead meme has resurfaced, this time the instigator is Mike Gualtieri from Forrester. Given his general premise of Java is dead for enterprise development, I find it odd that he basically starts with: Java is still a great choice for app dev teams that have developed the architecture and expertise to develop… Read More For Enterprise Development, If Not Java Then What?
PLEASE REVIEW THE MORE RECENT VERSION FOR FEBRUARY 2011. About 6 months ago, I looked at the job trends for traditional programming languages again. Given the popularity of these posts, I have decided to make this a recurring theme. In the last update, I included Delphi due to the fairly high ranking it had in… Read More Traditional Programming Language Job Trends – August 2010
Last week, I read a post at High Scalability talking about getting research out of academic environments. There is a lot of technology that starts as academic research, but there is a problem with some research being adopted by other technologists. That post has a very good explanation of why: Over the years I’ve read… Read More New Technology Success Depends On Adoptability
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
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