The other week I was working on my compilers homework – the semantic analysis part is an object-oriented nightmare. Something called the visitor pattern to traverse trees and do weird stuff.

Each developer, software engineer and/or architect would be well advised to observe the job market to learn more about trends and up-coming technologies. It is not important that you share my personal opinion about HTML5 & CSS3: "Most of the mobile apps don't need native apps. They are cool, but to expensive to develop, test and maintain. Web applications are form the economic point of view in a lot of cases more reasonable."

Stop the insanity! Forget the animations, ornate templates, and other me-too gimmicks, make me a better presenter instead. A look at the web as a (future) presentation delivery platform.

Since we recently announced our $10001 Binary Battle to promote applications built on the Mendeley API (now including PLoS as well), I decided to take a look at the data to see what people have to work with.

This evening it happened to me to read this quite interesting article about why software is so hard to write. In the article, if you don't care or do not want to read it, the blogger reports the decision of a friend of his quitting his (probably highly paid) job as software developer because he got tired of it. The motivation he (the one who quit) suggested are that software is complex to build and is the only large-scale human artifact that is mostly built by hand

ORM are primarily used to avoid writing SQL and persist completely anemic domain, where all the logic reside on services. In such a scenario it is easy to abuse an ORM and probably in the long term the ORM could become much more a pain than a real help.

A couple months ago I briefly reviewed Machine Learning for Hackers by Drew Conway and John Myles White. Today I’m looking at Machine Learning in Action by Peter Harrington and comparing the two books.

More women in the tech team could help rebuild the relationship between business and IT. Most CIOs want to hire more women for the IT department, but struggle to find qualified female applicants for the roles they need to fill.

Larry Wall, creator of the Perl programming language, explains why the Hobbits embody what Wall sees as the three virtues of good programmers: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

Which is the most trusted, easy to use and implement mobile Web framework in the market? Here we have discussed the most trusted Mobile web frameworks available in the Web Industry for designing Mobile compatible websites and web applications.

There doesn’t seem to be a day that goes by without another development in the entire Java ecosystem in regards to Cloud. In this issue of Java Tech Journal, we attempt to distill the noise down for you - by looking at some of the most popular PaaS options. Articles featuring Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Cumulogic, CloudBees and a general overview of which PaaS is best for you

The whole "everyone should learn programming" meme has gotten so out of control that the mayor of New York City actually vowed to learn to code in 2012.

Fortuitously, the cloud is ready-made for open-source monetization since software offered as a service is easy to charge for. The trick is figuring out which services startups and enterprises need to get the most from their cloud-based Ubuntu deployments. If Canonical can nail that they are likely to reap rich benefits from a massive cloudy future.

The Silver Lining Blog's "Pie in the Sky" series offers readers a list of great links to articles related to current opinions and news on various cloud-related tools, platforms, and topics.

This is a continuation of a previous post that Guarav Mantri wrote concerning two popular cloud storage services offered by Microsoft and Amazon. Get to know the differences here.

As everyone knows, time in the world of software passes very quickly when compared to other aspects of business. So, in the last ten years, the way many companies handle their software needs has seen drastic change.

Ben Kepes offers some insightful comments on the current state of cloud adoption, with a Software Advice interview to boot.

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Python - 5 years of bad ideas.

As Red Hat mount their PaaS embrace, we ask whether it's too much too soon and look forward to how PaaS can gain greater adoption

This is another one I've wanted to write forever. Man, I've tried a bunch of times. No ruck. Not Rucky. Once again I'm stuck feeling so strongly about something that I'm tripping over myself trying to get my point across.

Sometimes in app-dev we’re using technologies that have a delayed cost. Simple to use now, but with shortcomings that mean that later features might be much harder to add. The term ‘Glass Ceilings’ (whilst classically meaning something else) seems to apply here.

must admit I suck at graphical design. It's one of the reasons that put me in the way of Flex and Vaadin in the first place: out-of-the-box, you got an application that is pleasing to the eye. Using one of these technologies is not possible (nor relevant) in all contexts, and since I've got a strong interest in UI, I regularly have a look at other alternatives for clean looking applications. The technology I studied this week is Twitter Bootstrap. Bootstrap is a lightweight client-side framework, that comes (among others) with pre-styled "components" and a standard layout. Both are completely configurable and you can download the customized result here. From a technical point of view, Bootstrap offers a CSS - and an optional JavaScript file that relies on jQuery (both are also available in minified flavor). I'm no big fan of fancy client-side JavaScript so what follows will be focused on what you can do with plain CSS.

Yahoo is famous for saying that Hadoop, the data-storage-and-processing platform it helped develop into a big data juggernaut, is “behind every click” on the site. But as the world once again starts analyzing Yahoo’s myriad woes after Sunday morning’s ouster of embattled CEO Scott Thompson, I’m left wondering if its investment in Hadoop didn’t aid in the company’s demise — even if it’s a way down the long list of Yahoo’s mistakes.