I've been watching the Battlestar Galactica series recently. It's a gritty sci-fi show about the remnants of a human civilization, looking for a mysterious planet (conveniently called Earth) after their home world had been destroyed by rebellious cyborgs. The title comes from the human's only remaining battleship – Galactica – which...
I guess it was inevitable that software developers let the current talent crunch get into their heads. Recruiters continue to spam anyone who can slap two lines of code together, so developers are feeling pretty good about job prospects; we puff out our chests a bit more, point at the other offers available, and ask...
Javascript has won the internet. It beat out Actionscript/Flex in mobile, while a new breed of MVC, client-side frameworks are taking over jobs that used to employ server-side code (e.g., your Rails's, Djangos, and CakePHPs). For the first time, Javascript is popular for more than its copy-paste-ability into an HTML document....
Google went ahead and released their new proposed language for the web, Dart. It's a well-meaning gesture to upgrade the state of client-side web dev, but has had a lukewarm reception. Not surprising, when it looks like Java, and the current crop of web devs are used to the free-flowing forms of Ruby,...
There has been an ongoing debate on whether designers—web designers, to be specific—ought to be able to code their designs. This article, for instance, re-ignites the debate. I guess the combination of designers moving onto the web en masse and that HTML + CSS has a low barrier to entry means that several designers...
I came this article yesterday. In brief, it talks about a group of veteran programmers - 20+ years of experience, these guys - who lament about today's programmers lacking the skill to work at low levels of software or even hardware, content to stay programming at high-level languages with their work. It talks...
