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Learning Ruby and Ruby vs Lisp

The company I work for has a lot of legacy Ruby code, and as Ruby has become kind of a mainstream language, I decided to get a book about it and learn how it works. As my learning resource, I chose The Ruby Programming language by David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto as that receives great customer reviews, covers Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9 and is authoritative because the language creator is one of the authors. The book makes a good read in general. There are plen...

Ruby,Feature,Functional,OOP,Lisp,Difference 2011-12-12 07:42:01

We trade a lot more than just time to practice our craft

I was recently having one of those â€œlife, the universe and everythingâ€ conversations with a close industry (web) friend. Mid-conversation I dropped that Iâ€™d identified three kinds of stress that we face as creators â€“ it felt somewhat poetic at the time, so I thought Iâ€™d take some time to describe it. Physical, the kind of stress youâ€™re under when youâ€™ve been eating poorly, drinking too much, exercising too little, or working too long. Weâ€...

Stress,Programmer,Creator,Emotional stress 2011-12-09 07:45:48

Why Outsourcing .Net Services is a Growing Trend?

IT companies are focusing more on .net for application development. This is because; the .net platform empowers developers with a wide range of tools and libraries to create diverse applications in an easy and efficient manner. The dot net framework allows users i.e. developers, to design and develop applications that can interact with web services and a range of online devices. .Net programming language is richer than others in many contexts. It has several objects oriented features like proper...

dot net services, outsourcing, .net, framework 2014-10-23 22:30:43

Are You a Good Programmer?

If someone asks you to recommend a good programmer, who comes to mind? Do you consider yourself a good programmer? What criteria do you use to judge? In thinking about this, I realized that there are different ways that a programmer can be good. So I present to you The Four Kinds of Good Programmers. And in celebration of Whyday, I include quirky Why-styled illustrations* for your viewing pleasure! The Philosopher The PhilosopherThe philosopher loves to write well-defined, well-structured...

Programmer,Inventor,Philosopher,Conquero 2011-08-23 07:56:26

Do You Make These 5 Database Design Mistakes?

Look, everyone makes mistakes. Itâ€™s true. But not all of us have the chance to make mistakes that end up costing millions of dollars in hardware and production support costs. Any one of the following five mistakes listed below will add additional costs to your company. Itâ€™s guaranteed. The costs could be hardware related (extra disk space, network bandwidth), which tend to add up quickly. The costs are also support related (bad performance, database re-design, report cre...

Database design,Mistake,Advice,Data type,Compatibility 2012-01-03 11:25:13

Is working experience really so important?

When I browse the recruiting information in the website, I always see the following requirements:"The candidate must have more than 3 years experience in C++ programming" or "The candidate must have more than 3 years experience in iOS development". I would like to ask the recruiter:"Is working experience really so important?" In my opinion, the working experience is not a good measurement to decide whether a candidate is fit or not, and use this rule just like using the lines of code to judge th...

2014-09-20 07:14:58

Application vs Database Programming

A few years ago, I had a problem. A database routine for processing bulk payments for LedgerSMB that was humming along in my test cases was failing when tested under load with real data prior to implementation. Some testing showed that while it ran fine with small numbers of inputs, it eventually slowed way down as the number of inputs rose. Andrew Sullivan, who was also on the project through a different company, suggested it was something called a "cache miss" because I...

Application Programming,Database programming,Comparison,Difference 2012-03-04 12:08:35

How iPhone App Developers Will Get Benefited by iOS 11?

At Apple WWDC 2017, the CEO Tim Cook introduced the next generation of iOS, i.e., iOS 11. Various improvements and innovations included in iOS 11 were discussed. And what one can say from the whole is that this year’s WWDC keynote was more developer-oriented than user-oriented. It was, indeed, an assistance to the iPad and iPhone app developers to create more innovative mobile apps, and serve users for lifetime. If you are an iOS app developer or working at an iPhone app development...

APPLE,IPHONE APP DEVELOPERS,IPHONE APP,IPHONE,MOBILE APP 2017-06-14 06:17:22

Building a Modern Web Stack for the Real-time Web

The web is evolving. After a few years of iteration the WebSockets spec is finally here (RFC 6455), and as of late 2011 both Chrome and Firefox are SPDY capable. These additions are much more than just "enhancing AJAX", as we now have true real-time communication in the browser: stream multiplexing, flow control, framing, and significant latency and performance improvements. Now, we just need to drag our "back office" - our web frontends, app servers, and everything in between into this cen...

Web design,Real-time web,web stack 2012-02-15 05:54:41