Developers
COBOL, Lisp and Logo Get New Life Among Coders
Three decades-old languages given modern interpreters, bringing them to a new generation.
September 13, 2016DevOps Salaries Surge
The results help to back up assertions that software is eating the world and that tech is one of the few industries creating net job growth.
August 26, 2016Bluemix Case Study: Kiwi – A Motion Sensor for Developers
Kiwi Wearable Technologies produces intelligent motion capture technology that analyses speed, direction, angle, and torque.
August 24, 2016Ethereum Community Splits After Security Fix
Community behind the Ethereum blockchain – a system that by its very nature depends on consensus – has split in two.
August 19, 2016A Brief History of Hacking
There’s a direct correlation between the way open-source software permeated business and the developer culture we have today. Professor Gabriella Coleman and technology journalist Clive Thompson weigh in.
August 4, 2016The Open Community Behind the Bluemix Cloud
To unlock the cloud’s full potential, developers need access to a platform that is built around their needs and their preferences.
August 3, 2016How to Skill Your Startup
TechPORTFOLIO spoke to Sonia Strimban, manager, Venture Operations at Mars Discovery District about the ideal evolution of startups within the accelerator community and the issues startups run into when it comes to finding employees with the right skills.
June 6, 2016How Code Breaking Inspired Shopify Lead to a Dev Career
After reading a book about WWII codebreakers called Cryptonomicon, Julie Haché “decided to play around with her laptop and I managed to recompile my first kernel. That was the moment that I got hooked. I knew I needed to learn more about this whole world.”
June 1, 2016Why Canada’s Tech Scene is Worth Getting Excited About
It’s often overlooked that one of the most esteemed innovators of the 21st century, Elon Musk - the mind behind PayPal, SpaceX and Tesla - is a Canadian citizen and attended Queen’s University in Kingston before ultimately moving to the U.S. Vancouverite Stewart Butterfield created the original photo-sharing site Flickr in the mid 2000s and went on to build the office social platform Slack, now headquartered in San Francisco and valued around $4 billion.
May 10, 2016Investors Weigh in on Programming Language Choice
Startups should consider their comfort level with the language, where the market is going and if the language they choose is the best one to reach their goals. While VCs usually don’t try to change decisions around programming languages, the way programs are written could affect investment decisions.
May 5, 2016