Software

“Hey Siri.” Seeing as Siri is active on more than half a billion devices, you have likely spoken this phrase today. Or perhaps you regularly use other voice assistants, such as Google Home or Alexa,...

Given the nature of design problems, design issues have mostly been described as being ‘wicked’ or ‘ill-structured’. Within the field of software and platform design there always existed a blind spot regarding the process...

When it comes to design, challenges can be overwhelming. Yet. by taking into account some basic principles design challenges can be turned into opportunities. Here are some rules to bear in mind when it...

Software development influencer Joel Spolsky specifically forbade rebuilding software from scratch. He called doing so, “the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make.” That blunder’s disastrousness is evidenced by several historical...

According to the physicist Feynman, seemingly simple things in life such as the air, the water, the sand, the sea all are in fact complicated and embed the complexity of the world. In a...

Value investors can cash in on video games with NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ: NVDA). In fact, NVIDIA allows gamers to take advantage of a classic value investing strategy. The strategy is to buy the companies...

Ousterhout (2018) mentions in his book ‘A Philosophy of Software Design” some principles in order to dig deeper into the skills that make the so-called “10X programmers” an order of magnitude more effective than...

As Ousterhout (2018) reminds us in his book ‘A Philosophy of Software Design” when addressing the problem of how to design good software we should bear in mind some principles in order to dig...

Designing good software can be challenging. Yet, at its core, good software design is fundamentally about two things: Problem decomposition which refers to taking a complex problem and breaking it into sub-pieces that can...

Companies are constantly reinventing themselves to gain or maintain competitive advantage and market share. This is nothing new. What is new is the increasing use of the term Agile in business management to describe fast-paced companies...

Within the landscape of Internet of Things (IoT), support is provided for communication among devices and protocol through means of wireless and LAN connectivity. Based on a personal recognition system, machines are able to recognize...

During my years as an undergrad, I skipped many night-outs to pick up Java hoping it would one day help me get ahead in my career. Years later, when it’s finally time to cash...

Using the Internet every day does not necessitate knowing about it. The Internet has become an indispensable tool in our lives, yet still, many Internet users still possess small and incomplete portions of understanding...

Programming paradigms have become indispensable lenses for software engineers in today's big data age. Along with a set of principles, they are based on a mathematical theory in order to support a set of...

About a month back, while I was sitting at a café and working on developing a website for a client, I found this woman sitting at a table near me, observing what I was...

Gone are the days when computers used to be bulky, expensive & difficult to operate. As technology progressed, the machines became smaller, smarter & cheaper - So cheap that you can get a Raspberry...

Publicly available solutions are ubiquitous. These products can fill a team’s need so well that it is tempted to build its software from a mélange of packages sown together.  A mishmash of libraries is...

Back in August, I wrote about the arrival of blockchain-powered phones in the DLT ecosystem. The pioneer phone FINNEY by SIRIN Labs was launched last month while the other one, HTC Exodus 1 got released...

A man-in-the-middle attack is one where both the client and the server are victims. The attacker sits virtually between both parties and intercepts communications between the two. Therefore, all information passed from one end...

Malicious software stories fill many publications. Bleeping Computer is practically an active record of malware and security holes. Bulletins such as The Daily WTF are a constant reminder of the general bugginess of applications.  The...