Software Developers’ Growing Elitism Problem

Cahlan Sharp writes in TechCrunch about elitism in software development. Interesting read. http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/27/software-developers-growing-elitism-problem/ I wonder if this is specific to software development. Doesn’t every job has its elite? I mean, there are elite designers and elite bankers. Humans want to differentiate themself. Nobody wants […]

Are programmers engineers?

Wired has an interesting article that discusses the question “what makes an engineer an engineer?” Programmers, Let’s Earn the Right to Be Called Engineers – http://www.wired.com/2015/11/programmers-lets-earn-the-right-to-be-called-engineers/ I think that it is not easy to answer this question, as there are many different programmers out […]

Editors in the cloud(s)

With more and more things moving into the cloud, you can now find a bunch of online editors for your favourite language. I told you about Plunker in a recent post. But there’s more. jsFiddle – another web IDE for JavaScript SQL Fiddle – […]

JavaScript, Node.js, npm, Express, oh my…

Some time ago I became interested in Node.js. “Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform runtime environment for developing server-side web applications.” (Node.js. (2015, September 17). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 09:43, September 20, 2015, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Node.js&oldid=681558515). Well, I just became interested in Node.js because […]

The Plunker Web IDE

I have just discovered Plunker. “Plunker is an online community for creating, collaborating on and sharing your web development ideas. Real-time code collaboration Fully-featured, customizable syntax editor Live previewing of code changes As-you-type code linting Forking, commenting and sharing of Plunks Fully open-source on […]

Programmiersprache: Python 3.5 erschienen

“Ein neuer Operator für Matrix-Multiplikationen, eine Unpacking-Syntax für Containertypen, Coroutinen mit den Schlüsselwörtern async und await sowie einiges andere mehr sind in anderthalb Jahren Arbeit beim neuen größeren Python-Release zusammengekommen.” http://heise.de/-2811997