Boutique Chic: Five Great Analysts Who Are Under the Radar

There's a reason that IDC, Forrester, and Gartner are so big. They offer scale and coverage that small firms can't match, and they attract…

Section: Enterprise Author: Cormac Foster Publish date: May 3, 2012 Interaction count: 0

OpenStack Leader: Open Source Needs to Rethink Its Priorities

Philosophically, the open source concept borrows some selected elements from socialism. It upholds a notion of the "common good," it…

Section: Hack Author: Scott M. Fulton Publish date: October 2, 2011 Interaction count: 0

There is a missing characteristic to most of what is published today on the subject of computing. At some point in time, as a matter of…

Section: Hack Author: Scott M. Fulton Publish date: August 15, 2011 Interaction count: 0

This week was finals week for the summer semester at Washington University in St. Louis, and one event that I regularly enjoy attending is…

Section: Hack Author: David Strom Publish date: August 4, 2011 Interaction count: 0

One of my favorite sessions at OSCon this week was Teaching Creative Writing with Python. Adam Parrish talked about his course Reading and…

Section: Hack Author: Klint Finley Publish date: July 30, 2011 Interaction count: 0

Rackspace recently published a nice infographic on the evolution of programming languages. It starts with FORTRAN and COBOL and runs through…

Section: Hack Author: Klint Finley Publish date: July 27, 2011 Interaction count: 0

JavaScript creator Brendan Eich has spoken out against the perception that JavaScript was an arbitrary or random success. In a comment at…

Section: Hack Author: Klint Finley Publish date: July 22, 2011 Interaction count: 0

Twitter is famous for its use of Ruby on Rails, but as it has scaled the service up it has migrated some of its code to other…

Section: Hack Author: Klint Finley Publish date: July 6, 2011 Interaction count: 0

Neal Stephenson once wrote that BeOS was the Batmobile of operating systems (Windows was a station wagon, MacOS was a European sports car…

Section: Hack Author: Klint Finley Publish date: June 29, 2011 Interaction count: 0

Every time you refresh ilearnedtoprogram.com you'll see a different one sentence story from a programmer about how or why they started…

Section: Hack Author: Klint Finley Publish date: April 26, 2011 Interaction count: 0

How do three guys with only seed funding process a hundred million messages a day? I sat down with the BackType team to discover how they…

Section: Hack Author: Pete Warden Publish date: January 12, 2011 Interaction count: 0