When to Rebuild a Software from Scratch?
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...
Simplicity In A World of Complexity
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...
Cash in On Video Games with NVIDIA
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...
Strategic or Tactical Programming? The Road Ahead for Software Engineers
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...
Back to Basics of Software Design
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...
The Road to Good Software Design
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...
Agile Management: The Good, The Bad, and the Downright Ugly
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...
The Art of Building Embedded Systems for IoT
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...
Best Coding Languages to Learn in 2019
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, but Still Not Understanding the Internet
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...
Getting into the Spirit of the Programming Paradigms
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...
Which is More Promising: Data Science or Software Engineering?
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...
Meet Raspberry Pi – A revolutionary Computing device
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...
A Team Should Build the Most Impactful Parts of Its Software
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...
Know all about the blockchain-powered Brave browser & Google Fi
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...
3 Ways to Protect Against Man-In-The-Middle Attacks
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...
A Code of Ethics Does Little to Correct the Issues with Today’s Software
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...
What is SaaS & why do the Tech investors love this model
Investors love to put their money in reputable businesses which have a sustainable model of business in the long run with a history of being profitable. SaaS (Software as a Service) model certainly falls...
Getting the Basics of Information Warfare
Nowadays, we are often surrounded by fake news. Although this may seem like an epidemic issue of our times, it has been existent for quite a while. In 1997, Wilson, who came up with...
‘Captology’: The Tech of Persuasion
As technology shapes the way we interact every day, our interactions are increasingly shaped by algorithms as well, whether we recognize it or not. The practice of intentionally guiding user behavior is known as "persuasive...
