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Developer Week in Review: The overhead of insecure infrastructure
I'm experiencing a slow death by pollen this week, which has prompted me to ponder some of the larger issues of life. In particular, I was struck by the news that an FPGA chip widely used in military...
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Async and Roslyn mean more power and insight in your C# 5.0
Eric Lippert is a principal developer on the C# compiler team at Microsoft. He has been with Microsoft since 1996, where he has worked on many projects including C#, VBScript, and Jscript. He also...
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Publishing News: HTML5 may be winning the war against apps
HTML5 LogoA couple weeks ago, MIT Technology Review's editor in chief and publisher Jason Pontin wrote a piece about killing their app and optimizing their website for all devices with HTML5. That same...
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Why learn C?
Though C has been around for decades, it's still consistently ranked at the top of any list of programming languages used and studied today. I recently spoke with David Griffiths (@dogriffiths),...
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Heavy data and architectural convergence
Recently I spent a day at the Hadoop Summit in San Jose. One session in particular caught my attention because it hints at a continued merging of the RDBMS and Hadoop worlds. EMC’s Lei Chang gave a...
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Open source community collaboration strategies for the enterprise
OSCON’s theme last year was “from disruption to default.” Over the last decade, we’ve seen open source shift from the shadows to the limelight. Today, more businesses than ever are considering the role...
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Data Jujitsu: The art of turning data into product
Having worked in academia, government and industry, I’ve had a unique opportunity to build products in each sector. Much of this product development has been around building data products. Just as...
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Overfocus on tech skills could exclude the best candidates for jobs
At the second RailsConf, David Heinemeier Hansson told the audience about a recruiter trying to hire with “5 years of experience with Ruby on Rails.” DHH told him “Sorry; I’ve only got 4 years.” We all...
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Why use Scala
Scala is not strictly a functional programming language — it was designed from the ground up to be an object-oriented and functional hybrid. So programmers need to choose which methodology to use, but...
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Esther Dyson on health data, “preemptive healthcare” and the next big thing
If we look ahead to the next decade, it’s worth wondering whether the way we think about health and healthcare will have shifted. Will healthcare technology be a panacea? Will it drive even higher...
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The risks and rewards of a health data commons
As I wrote earlier this year in an ebook on data for the public good, while the idea of data as a currency is still in its infancy, it’s important to think about where the future is taking us and our...
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3 kinds of Big Data
Looking ahead at big data's role in enterprise business intelligence, civil engineering, and customer relationship optimization.
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New school C
Choosing a programming language for that project you’re working on is a fairly straightforward decision: it needs to be fast, easy to use, and it must come with enough bells and whistles to keep you...
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Stacks get hacked: The inevitable rise of data warfare
This has been going on for a long time, likely since the invention of fire, knives, or the printed word. But I want to focus specifically on computing technology.
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Why C is a more practical and enticing programming language than you might...
Choosing a programming language for that project you’re working on is a fairly straightforward decision: it needs to be fast, easy to use, and it must come with enough bells and whistles to keep you...
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What is probabilistic programming?
Probabilistic programming languages are in the spotlight. This is due to the announcement of a new DARPA program to support their fundamental research. But what is probabilistic programming? What can...
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The future of programming
Programming is changing. The PC era is coming to an end, and software developers now work with an explosion of devices, job functions, and problems that need different approaches from the single...
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How I failed - O'Reilly Radar
When you start out as an entrepreneur, it’s just you and your idea, or you and your co-founder’s and your idea. Then you add customers, and they shape and mold you and that idea until you achieve the...
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Development moving towards Operations & vice-versa: About DevOps
What do we mean by “operations” in the 21st century? Back in the dawn of the computer age, there was no distinction between dev and ops. Dev and ops started to separate in the ’60s, when...
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Is Valve’s SteamBox a contender for the next developer workstation?
A scenario started playing through my head the other day. In the late 1990s, Apple looked dead. Then they released OS X, plus very cool shiny hardware.
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