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Domestication of Data at Agile Development/Better Software West At the Agile Development/Better Software Conference West, James Whittaker presented a keynote on the future of web-based data. When we want information, we still use searches and filter through results, as hunters. Whittaker says we should become gatherers and let context-based data come to us. |
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COBOL Still Used More Than Google Lero, a software engineering research center, recently announced that even in today’s fast-evolving and innovative society COBOL is still being used more than Google. Researchers at Lero claim that there are more than two hundred times more COBOL transactions than Google searches worldwide. |
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Online Identify Theft Is Only Getting Easier An expanding reliance on digital services requiring the input of personal information has increased the risk of data theft, and it only takes a few common pieces of information for the best thieves to steal your identity. More than ever, we need strong security systems to be developed. |
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iOS App Development Is About to Get Easier At the Worldwide Developer Conference 2014 held recently, one of the announcements Apple made was about its new free programming language, Swift. People are excited because iOS development should become easier for all categories of programmers, but how much will it really affect the industry? |
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The Road to More Female Programmers Women in IT and why there is a gender gap in terms of positions filled and pay given has been widely discussed through the years. The industry has become very cognizant of these issues lately, and attempts are being made to encourage women to take a more active role in software programming. |
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The Internet Bleeds Again: eBay Hack Confirmed Last week, it was rumored that eBay’s corporate network was hacked. Later in the week, eBay confirmed the attack. The security breach, which could affect 150 million active users, leads to more speculation on how safe the Internet actually is, especially in the aftermath of the Heartbleed bug. |
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How the New Retailers' Security Knowledge Base Will Benefit Testers In an initiative to curb cyber attacks, a group of retailers created a forum called the Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center. Stores such as Lowe’s, Nike, and Target formed the center with the goal of identifying new threats and sharing how to mitigate risk, which will help security testers. |
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Should Non-IT Professionals Learn to Code? Globally, there has been a lot of push in the last year to generate more coding awareness among non-IT professionals. However, even for those who agree that coding is important, there are differing opinions about who should learn it. What is vital is understanding the end goal of learning to code. |
