Yet another acquisition to start our day, Twitter acquires Magic Pony Technology. This is an interesting purchase as it seems to be another technology buy from Twitter. On Google Analytics, we get a post about a wealth of features in Google Data Studio. The push to get social data into the tool is a slightly… Read More Geek Reading June 22, 2016 #1133
Today we focus on jobs and startups. First, Johanna Rothman talks about who should be your product owner. On First Round Review, there is an excellent post about the transition from engineer into manager. This is something I have personally gone through and seen other people struggle with as well. Diego Bash talks about failure… Read More Geek Reading August 5, 2015
In part 1 of the programming language job trends, we reviewed Java, C++, C#, Objective C, and Visual Basic. In today’s installment, we review trends for PHP, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, and PERL. Watch for part 3 in the next few days, where we will look at some emerging languages and others gaining steam. First, let’s look at the trends from Indeed.com: Much like the languages in part… Read More Programming Language Job Trends Part 2 – August 2014
In part 1 of the programming language job trends, we looked at Java, C++, C#, Objective C, and Visual Basic. In today’s installment, we review the trends for PHP, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, and PERL. Watch for part 3 in the next few days, where we will look at Erlang, Groovy, Scala, Lisp, and Clojure. First, let’s look at the trends from Indeed.com: As you can see, there… Read More Programming Language Job Trends Part 2 – February 2014
It is August, so that means it is time to review the job trends. First we look at the traditional programming languages, which includes Java, C++, C#, Objective C, Perl and Visual Basic. I have not decided how to change this yet, but hopefully soon I will get the change to mix things up a bit.… Read More Traditional Programming Language Job Trends – August 2013
The winter edition of the job trends are back! Today, we are looking at traditional programming languages, which currently include Java, C++, C#, Objective C, Perl and Visual Basic. After this months job trends are posted, I will be reviewing all of the posts and the languages included. I believe some change is needed, so hopefully… Read More Traditional Programming Language Job Trends – February 2013
It is a little late, but it is time for the summer edition of the job trends for traditional programming languages. The languages in this update have not changed for a while as we are only looking at Java, C++, C#, Objective C, Perl and Visual Basic. Over the next few months, I will be… Read More Traditional Programming Language Job Trends – August 2012
Once again, it is time for the job trends for traditional programming languages. Just like the most recent trends updates, we are only looking at Java, C++, C#, Objective C, Perl and Visual Basic. This list has stayed fairly stable during the past few updates and I am always looking to see if something else should be added.… Read More Traditional Programming Language Job Trends – February 2012
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
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
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