A co-worker recently recommended that I read Knuth's classic "The art of computer programming". I have a lot of respect for this co-worker, but then I've heard some negative things about these ...

When James Gosling isn’t preaching Java’s virtues, he spends his days in a quiet corner office at Sun Labs, dreaming up new ways to help programmers manage complexity. With the Star Trek Borg mask he ...

This book excerpt is from chapter 1 of The Art of UNIX Programming by Eric S. Raymond, ISBN 0131429019, copyright 2004. All rights reserved. This part of chapter 1 ...

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

I'm sick of Tom Cruise. I have an instinctive dislike for people who swing the articles of their faith around like some mad Viking descending on a fog-shrouded Irish village. You can't even avoid Mr.

The following story contains interviews with Alan Trefler, CEO of Pegasystems, and Chris Kelly, GitHub community manager. It’s all very confusing. But perhaps we’re asking the wrong question. Maybe we ...

Mary-Ann Russon, a BBC technology of business reporter recently asked: “What can we do to get more women into coding?” My answer is “lots”, but if you work in the tech industry, you might not want to ...

Last month I spent a week in Moscow where I spoke at the Skolkova Robotics Forum on Smart Matter: 4 Things That Are Making Every “Thing” Smart. While there, I happened to visit a very unique gallery ...