With my last blog post I answered to a post of Ted Neward. In that post he also mentioned AI being an interesting topic back then: Artificial Intelligence was one such thing: the search to try and bring computers to a state of human-like sentience drove a lot of interesting ideas and concepts forward, but [...]
Ted Neward wrote a piece in which he complains about not seeing anything new and exciting in the IT industry and ends with a question: If you’ve been programming for twenty years, what about the industry today gets your blood moving and your mind sharpened? So if you count my first experiments with a clunky [...]
Lots of stuff in software development has some really solid scientic foundation. Relational databases for example are based on Relational Algebra. There is Lambda Calculus and Type Theory. And at least in my personal opionion and experience these kind of things work especially well. Yet when it comes to the construction of code the whole [...]