And what was the motive, anyway? Why do people hate Java? Mainly because people want to attach so much drama to it. E.G. asking “Why do people hate Java?” Stage one, mid-’90s: Java was HYPE! HYPE! HYPE! It will cure cancer and impotence and replace the Internet and bring peace to the middle East! “Java” [...]

To all those graduating with their CS degrees this summer, here is the final lesson. This is the stuff they never tell you when you’re learning to code. But after you get that job in the real world, you’ll discover that everybody who programs for a living subscribes to one of these programming philosophies. Better [...]

Being one of the geek/coder lot, I was going to be nice to the programmers. Especially the ones who blog. After all, there’s no reason to be embarrassed at the nauseating ignorance of another – no one speaks for all of us, and it shouldn’t reflect on me. But after reading some of the sites [...]