Sometime ago Wolfram Alpha went live. Wolfram Alpha is a new search engine, so naturally it get’s compared to Google, and other new search engines. In many cases the results for the comparison isn’t in favor for Wolfram Alpha. The Register writes:
Alpha is the finest example of the tragedy that results when an academic tries [...]
Do you know Maslows pyramid of Needs? No? Great, because it is all wrong anyway. At least the pyramid part is wrong. But chances are even if you don’t know Maslow and his pyramid you might be using it, and probably using the part that is wrong. So let’s start with the pyramid.
In 1954 the [...]
Many business people don’t understand Boolean logic, at least not on the abstract level that developers are used to. And that is perfectly ok, since they don’t have to instruct stupid things like computers to do their work. They either talk to other people, who are happy to base decision on a handful of examples [...]
If you consider a singleton for solving a problem, you really should think again if it is the correct solution or if you are coding the equivalent of global variable. If you still want to use the singleton approach, ask your colleagues if this would be a good approach. If they agree, I might have [...]
When I first read the then news of IBM considering to buy Sun I was a little worried. What would it mean to my favorite programming language java? IBM is a strong player in the JCP and with Eclipse they made a IDE available that is constantly among the two most used and the three [...]