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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New Axis of Evil (Oracle)
8 Comments | Posted by Dave in Companies
There’s a wide sense of lament since Oracle has taken over Sun and their intellectual property, including MySQL, Java, Solaris and their hardware sales business. I’d say the average observer of this process might use the terms “slow moving train wreck”. I doubt they are far off on this one.
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Android App Store: The Cure Is Worse Than The Disease
3 Comments | Posted by Dave in Companies, Software
iPhone app development is a pain–onerous approval process, random rejections, lousy development environment, a requirement where all developers need to get Apple tattoos, the list goes on. But is Android the platform that is poised to take the crown from the Cupertino Competition? Android has its share of problems too…
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Stop Dumbing Down The World with Bad Interview Questions
6 Comments | Posted by Dave in Developers
With the Holiday Dead Zone coming to an end and the global economy picking up, I’d like to talk a little about interviewing software developers since hiring season is now upon us. Ever been to an interview where they ask some whopper like this?
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My posts on Google’s Go (Part 1 and Part 2) definitely touched a nerve with a few folks. And I appreciate good dialog on ideas like this…
One pervasive question that I keep hearing is “Who is Go good for?“ And I’m having a hard time finding a good answer. Even Go’s own FAQ page is uncharacteristically vague about it.
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Cloud computing is clearly not where we want it to be.
On the one hand, we have folks actively trumpeting the benefits and utilitarian nature of cloud computing and data storage. It’s attractive for sure. Access data anywhere. Avoid the hassles of local backups. Prevent data recovery disasters. Pay-for-what-you-eat models. Unlimited computing potential. It’s all sounds great on a blog. Clearly the proponents want us to think Cloud computing is exactly like living on “Cloud Nine“.
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Google’s Go Isn’t Getting Us Anywhere, Part 2
18 Comments | Posted by Dave in Companies, Software
In Part One of this post, we discussed the Great Concurrency Problem and the promise of Go in taking the throne from Java. Today, I show why Go isn’t going to get us there.
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Google’s Go Isn’t Getting Us Anywhere, Part 1
2 Comments | Posted by Dave in Companies, Software
There’s buzz in the air about Google’s new language Go. Naturally, I was excited hearing about it. After all, Google has produced so many interesting tools and frameworks to date there’s almost automatic interest in any new Google software release. But this wasn’t just a product, this was a Google language release. My programmer brain pricked up immediately.
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