Programme stricken?

Programmierte Ungleichheit Die „gender pay gap“ bezeichnet die ungleiche Bezahlung von Männern und Frauen im gleichen Beruf. Während alte Rollenbilder zumindest teilweise verschwinden, könnte die Digitalisierung die Schere stärker auseinandertreiben. https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/programmierte-ungleichheit-frauen-in-der-it-branche-16361961.html © Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH 2001 – 2019. Alle Rechte vorbehalten. Ist schon […]

Calling all space programmers

Space industry pressed to hire enough software engineers Some space companies say their greatest hiring difficulty today is recruiting enough software engineers to work on their programs. https://spacenews.com/space-industry-pressed-to-hire-enough-software-engineers/ Copyright © 2019 Spacenews.com Software everywhere. Who would have thought that! 😉

Rust is the future

At least according to this article. “Rust is the future of systems programming, C is the new Assembly”: Intel principal engineer, Josh Triplett At Open Source Technology Summit (OSTS) 2019, Josh Triplett, a Principal Engineer at Intel gave an insight into what Intel is […]

Monads mystery solved

Finally an article to solve the monad mystery! Monads as a Programming Pattern This article is written from a programmer’s perspective, where a monad is a software engineering pattern. Like other patterns, you may have already used it without knowing it was the monad […]

Rust 1.37

Programmiersprache Rust 1.37 bringt Feinschliff für die Syntax und den Paketmanager Die Programmiersprache erweitert das Verwenden von Typvarianten und ermöglicht das Festlegen eines Standard-Binary für Cargo-Projekte. https://heise.de/-4498996 Copyright © 2019 Heise Medien Gott sei dank ist das Update sehr einfach.

Low Code

Da ist er ja wieder. Der Traum vom Codeless Programming. Low Code: Brauchen wir bald keine Programmierer mehr? “Modellierungs- und Design-Tools sollen mal wieder das Programmieren abschaffen. Diesmal scheint die Zeit reif, denn das Geschäft mit Low Code wächst rasant.” https://heise.de/-4481355 Copyright © 2019 […]

Who needs a senior developer?

This article about senior developers will make you think. Developers — here is the best WHY to quit your 9–5 job Software Engineering is dead-end career, employability decline at the age of 35 — says Bloomberg. https://medium.com/swlh/developers-here-is-the-most-convincing-reason-for-quitting-your-9-5-job-111801b7bd8 Written by Pen Magnet This article has […]

German Naming Convention

Chris Done proposes an interesting naming convention for source code. German Naming Convention “As a software consultant, mostly contributing code to other company’s codebases, and doing code review, I’ve seen about thirty separate codebases over the past half dozen years, and there’s one thing […]

Earnings ceiling

If you work in IT, you might want to read this article by Nate Swanner. Ageism in Effect: The Earnings Ceiling for Tech Professionals Over 40 New data shows that, as tech pros age, they earn more… but ageism starts to kick in when […]

Nannou and Rust

This week, I stumbled over Nannou, “An open-source creative-coding framework for Rust”. As I had a look at Processing before, I wonder how these two environments for creative coding compare. And as Nannou is written in Rust, I need to have a look at […]

Programmierer gesucht

Hhm. Gibt es jetzt zu wenige Programmierer, so das Tim Cook schon auf Schüler und Studenten zurückgreifen muss… Apple-Chef: Vier Jahre an der Uni für Entwickler unnötig Tim Cook will junge Leute schneller in die IT holen. Aktuelle Bildungsansätze hält er für überholt. https://heise.de/-4420452 […]

Programming Languages Power Usage

Interesting article on The New Stack about programming languages power usage. Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity? https://thenewstack.io/which-programming-languages-use-the-least-electricity/ © 2019 The New Stack. All rights reserved. Should we all go back to C now?

Mozilla Iodide / Python vs R

Eine interessante Meldung. Mozilla Iodide muss ich unbedingt einmal ausprobieren. Data Science: Mozilla bringt ein webbasiertes Tool zur Datenanalyse Iodide ermöglicht das Erstellen interaktiver Datendiagramme mit JavaScript, CSS und HTML sowie Python. Von Rainald Menge-Sonnentag, https://heise.de/-4335254, Copyright © 2019 Heise Medien. Falls jemand Vergleiche […]

Associative Arrays

When working with associative arrays in Python, I wonder how these work in other languages. Especially functional programming languages. For example, one would create a dictionary, as associative arrays are called in Python, as follows. >>> dic = {'foo': 42, 'bar': 43}>>> dic{'foo': 42, […]