oday’s software professional is under constant pressure to maintain a high skill level with an ever-changing palette of languages and tools, and the fear of potentially becoming somewhat irrelevant can be daunting.  Those that do not keep up with industry trends and movements are at some risk of losing marketability, but even those that do closely follow tech news need to make choices on which skills to pursue (time permitting), which to ignore, and what methods to use in the pursuit.

On a recent talk I gave somebody asked me if I would use PhoneGap again. Not sure, was my answer. There are a lot of things to consider before using PhoneGap / Apache Cordova. A brief overview on my experiences.

Let Radical Rich show you how in this demonstration video from 855 ft up in the air!

Just how fast is JBoss Middleware you ask? Radical Rich will show you in this awesome video!

When Steve Jobs unveiled Apple's first Intel-powered Macs at a January 2006 event in San Francisco, Intel CEO Paul Otellini made a dramatic entrance, emerging onstage from a cloud of smoke wearing a "bunny suit," the protective outfit workers wear in Intel's semiconductor fabrication plants.

We have posted Round 5 of our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms. In this round, we're very happy to announce that a community member has contributed tests for ASP.NET running on native Windows.

Thanks to technology, we’re watching a revolution happen in education right now.

Long time ago I decided to work on a bookmarking site as a side project. If you are thinking "not another bookmarking site please", that is good! It means that you know there are constant new attempts to save/organize/share bookmarks that keep failing. But you may also know that there is still an unsatisfied market.

In this article I will show why Marionette.RequestResponse is harmful and should not be used.

AOP and DI-interception both aim to solve the same problem. In my opinion DI-interception has some advantages.

I created this podcast episode to talk about a subject that was never made clear to me as a student. I quickly learned from my first job how "green" I was in the software industry, so now I pass my wisdom on to you newbies!

I’ve recently just had my first experience with serious pair programming, so I thought it would be a nice opportunity to share some of my initial impressions of the practice. Overall, my takeaways were overwhelmingly positive, but those came along with some interesting perspective shifts and a few caveats.

There are more ways than ever to create and consume content. This is good news for software developers, who now have even more opportunities to strike it rich. Here is a list of things every app developer needs to factor into their projects in order to maximize their chances of success.

Apps and platforms are all about discovery these days, but what about the people I prefer good old-fashioned search?

In this piece, I disagree with Joe Armstrong and Rob Pike, basing my argument on the differences between vending machines and gift boxes (illustrated with drawings carefully prepared in Microsoft Paint).

The unfortunate reality of the web today is that you’re going to get hacked. Statistically speaking at least, the odds of you having a website without a serious security risk are very low – 14% according to WhiteHat’s State of Web Security report from a couple of weeks ago. Have enough websites for long enough (as many organisations do), and the chances of you getting out unscathed aren’t real good.

We've spoken to college students about Small Basic in the past and I've heard Small Basic explained and presented. That led me to realize that we need a short and concise explanation for the existence of Small Basic...

The business computing always occurs in enterprises, which plays an important role in enterprises operations, and mainly handled by the business users. Most business users have no IT experience. They can only rely on the business spreadsheet software to complete such computing. However, the traditional business spreadsheet software is weak in calculation, which will bring about errors in the calculation process.

For years, the software industry has been trending away from so-called 'copyleft' licenses like the GPL and toward permissive, Apache-style licensing. and now some developers seem to want no licensing at all. This can't end well.