This is one of those rare non-technical entries in this blog. So, sit back and relax. What about me.com? Well, two things: Apple demonstrated this Ajax-based “Exchange” application on WWDC 2008 Key Note When typing it in me.com in my browser, I get to www.snappville.com! So, what is wrong here? [UPDATE: I saw this mentioned [...]
DISCLAIMER: this is not a usual, quite dry (did I hear boring? ) exposition of some more or less profound software construct, but quite personal and high-level, in that it talks about job interviews. I had a unique experience today. Not only was it one of very rare occasions when I cold-call somebody for a [...]
NOTE: since the automatic poll enumeration yields non-selectable radio buttons and some of the polls need context, I here manually enumerate polls and posts containing context-sensitive polls. [poll=1] Two specific polls about the coolest tricks in your development bag!
If one would measure popularity by number of hits on Google, these are the five most popular computer languages: PHP Java C Flash Perl A graph of Google hits, using the query +lang +programming, for some of the most common languages follows. NOTE 1: please inform me if your favorite language is omitted. NOTE 2: [...]
I have gathered a list of books that should get you started on the road to expertise in the language of the gods, C++. I decided to do this via a new Amazon facility called aStore. So you can go to my aStore to get access to those books. The most crucial ones are found [...]
A friend of mine – Yariv Sadan (whose blog is at http://yarivsblog.com) – suggested today that a lot of what is considered web development is essentially nothing else than an early stage of real estate development. That interesting thought led me to coin a term – at least relative the IT industry: Soft Estate. So, [...]
It seems like all RPC frameworks have an intrinsic halftime of seven years. Why do they decay so rapidly? Whatever the general case might be, it is quite clear that SOAP is dying the infamous Death by Over-Standardization, which is luring around the C++ corner as well – unfortunately. Who is the new emperor? Hardly [...]
The future of the Internet is intelligent search and convergence of mobile devices, entertainment and computers. Every day, we get more and more connected. This will inevitably… ZZZZZzzzzz Wake up! You are here now. Far away from buzz words and air heads. We are all alone, and we can talk about stuff that really matters. [...]