I’m not inclined to make grand pronouncements about the future of software, but if anything kills off commercial software, let me tell you, it won’t be open source software. They needn’t bother. Commercial software will gleefully strangle itself to death on its own licensing terms.
Category: Programming
A big part of my work has to do with code. I’ve worked as system administrator – installing, patching, and configuring someone else’s code. I’ve worked as independent programmer, writing code on my own. I also programmed as part of the team. And on top of that, I worked as Team Leader and Project Manager, where I had to interact a lot with programmers. Programming world on its own is as huge as the universe. There is always something to learn. When I find something worthy or something that I understand enough to write about, I share it in this category.
British Airways to hold a hackathon on a plane above the Atlantic ocean
British Airways to hold a hackathon on a plane above the Atlantic ocean
Isn’t that awesome?
As plane journeys are starting to get increasingly more entertaining with Wi-Fi onboard, Harlem Shakes, and cellphone service, British Airways is taking things a step further. On a transatlantic flight from San Francisco to London, the airline plans to invite 100 innovators to an 11-hour “UnGrounded” hackathon. A number of high-profile founders, CEOs, and venture capitalists will all participate, with the aim of collaborating to create some solutions to global problems.
The group will be tasked with presenting their findings at the DNA Summit workshop after they land in London. UnGrounded is part of a larger push by British Airways to participate in the start-up community. The airline joined up with RocketSpace recently, a startup accelerator based in San Francisco, to gain access to startups and RocketSpace founder Duncan Logan will be onboard. The plane departs on June 12th, with no tablet use during takeoff of course, and we’ll be watching closely to see what 11 hours in the skies above the Atlantic ocean brings to the table.
GitHub turns into an IDE
OK, maybe not an IDE just yet, but it’s not just a social network or a version control web interface anymore. For a while now, you could create new files, and edit existing files. Now, you can also move existing files around.
The implication of all these features together is that now you don’t really need to have a local working environment. You can work on the projects using just the GitHub’s web interface. Of course, it’s not the most convenient way in the world, and you’d be missing a lot of commonly used features, but still, if you are on the go, or if you have an urgent change to make when away from your usual working environment, GitHub has you covered. Well done, guys! Keep it up.
Ten Things I Hate About Object-Oriented Programming
Ten Things I Hate About Object-Oriented Programming
Apparently I’m not the only one. In the immortal words of Edsger Dijkstra: “Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.“
DevOps reactions
I hate animated GIFs more than the next guy, but these ones are actually funny. Especially in the light of the last few weeks…