Software

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...

Unless you have been living under a rock, I am sure you have heard about blockchain by this time. While blockchain applications seem disruptive enough, it may not be easy to imagine what a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

As the famous French author, Gide, once mentioned, "one does not discover new lands without losing sight of the shore." The concept of information has interestingly attracted much more attention than the concept of computation...

Every day trillions of bytes of data gets generated online & on cellular devices around the world. What most of us don't know is that this is just scratching the surface of the enormous...