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In the past three years, I have been doing more and more of my work in Golang. If I had to pick a language for backend microservice development (which is where 99% of my career has been), I would now gladly choose Go.
Since Trump's Twitter account is such a great source of his stream of consciousness, his sentences so grammatically incorrect, and his speeches are so incoherent that it is very simple to write a program that will talk, write, and speak exactly like Donald Trump.
In software development, nothing exemplifies an institutionalized system of religious attitudes, causes, beliefs and practices held with ardor and faith as JavaScript and Node.js.
In a July 2017 article, Node.js Foundation surveyed developers around the world asking them how they use Node.js. As it turns out, Node.js is taking over the world of business applications and the enterprise by storm and is rapidly supplanting platforms like Java which has to do with a few factors. JavaScript Node.js is a … Continue reading Node.js is a perfect enterprise application platform
This article was originally published on my blog at Computerworld on Jan 20th, 2016 Since my last post, I had an opportunity at work to take over the responsibilities over a couple of web apps. I also implemented one from scratch. I spent the last 15 years working with Java. The last time I had … Continue reading JavaScript as the language of the cloud
There is a perception among many in the software industry that JavaScript is simpler to learn and use than, say, Java. I've even heard some say that JavaScript developers are easier to recruit. Somehow there is a perception of #javascript simplicity when in reality it is arguable as complex as C #callbackhell https://t.co/WAxbBaIxO9 — Oleg … Continue reading The Three Myths About JavaScript Simplicity
I needed a sandbox where I could experiment with Heroku, Node, JavaScript, and Angular and so I created a little suite of apps that I call "Oleg's Utilities". For now it is just a date calculator that my wife told me would be useful to her, but I'll add more. A few observations: I am not … Continue reading Oleg’s Utilities : Exploring Node, Angular and Heroku
