I am early 50’s and still code around half of my day. I do manage a small team but my primary love has always been development. I’m wondering what resources there are for us senior devs who keep coding? My older friends in the field chat when we are able about the cyclic nature of tech, coding, managing, mentoring and […]

My experience (20+ yrs) at a variety of shops has led me to the belief that overall large corporate projects are best served by using Java (or JVM based language). Access to talent pool, IDE and tooling, type system, vendor support, vast opensource ecosystem are all factors. I don’t think that Java is best for small/medium projects – I actually […]

Played around with a couple of the Google sponsored languages – Go and then Dart. Both exercised different parts of my brain but I feel like Dart has a much lower learning curve for anyone with Java/C# experience. I’m using it with Flutter and it’s been great but wonder why it isn’t more popular as a general purpose backend language? […]