1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion, concurrency, or proper capitalization.

I am not recommending a specific language over others at this time, but providing a long list of languages based on GitHub and TIOBE.

As I thought about it I realized that it isn’t important for it to be a language that you learn, it is just important that you learn something new. Experiment with a new platform, study data theory, join the enemy’s camp and understand their point of view.

Building a search engine is no easy task. There are many problems that one has to attack. It is quite the challenge. Search engines attract the attention of hackers everywhere. Due to their complexity, and sheer difficulty. It is no wonder that Google aims to hire the best of the best. It is a tough problem to solve. One that needs its own programming language.

At an insurance company, I encountered an application that had been in place for thirty years. Classic flat-file, mainframe COBOL. And decades old. It had never been replaced with a packaged solution. It had never been converted to a SQL database. It had never been rewritten in VB to run on a desktop.

As part of the Canonical Cloud Sprint taking place in San Francisco last week I attended Dave Cheney's talk at the GoSF meetup on the porting and extension of juju. Juju is an open-source cloud management and service orchestration tool that if you haven't heard of yet, you soon will have.

Data Context Interaction is recently invented programming paradigm, which aims at separating behaviour from data model, by extracting interactions into roles, which can be played by objects in various contexts. This presentation is going to give brief introduction to DCI, propose ways to implement roles' injection in Ruby and discuss how DCI could be used to supplement Rails' MVC paradigm.

A Domain-Specific Language (DSL) can provide some intellectual leverage. We can always write long and convoluted programs in a general-purpose programming language (like Python, Java or C). Sometimes it can make more sense to invent a new domain-specific language and implement the solution in that language.