Two recent interviews with Prof. Robert Dewar of NYU, Who Killed the Software Engineer and The ‘Anti-Java’ Professor, have recently been popular on the web and I wanted to add my own commentary to the situation. These interviews arise from Dewar’s article in the Software Technology Support Center: Computer Science Education: Where are the Software …
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Singleton Pattern in Java
Implementing a Singleton Class Pattern in Java is a common and easy task. The Singleton Pattern (as definied by the Gang of Four in 1995) is to “ensure a class only has one instance, and provide a global point of access to it.” The idea behind the Singleton pattern is that there can only be …
Do IT: Information Technology Career Paths
Information Technology is a very large field but within the field there are common job categories and career paths. Over time new careers appear and a few old careers fall away and within broad career paths there are many areas of specialization. This article’s focus is to look at the large, broad categories to give …
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