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The “Friedrich principles” for bioinformatics software

I’ve just come back from Biohackathon 2012 in Toyama, an annual event, traditionally hosted in Japan, where users of semantic web technologies (such as RDF and SPARQL) in biology and bioinformatics come together to work on projects. This was a nice event with an open and productive atmosphere, and I got a lot out of […]

Posted 13 September 2012 † johan § Bioinformatics § Computer science § Software development ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

Doing generality right

Many software developers, while making a tool to solve a specific problem, heed the siren call of generality. By making a few specific changes, they can turn the tool into a general framework for solving a larger class of problems. And then, with a few more changes, an even larger class of problems, and so […]

Posted 02 April 2010 † johan § Philosophy § Software development ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Where is Java going?

Today, Java is one of the most popular programming languages. Introduced in 1995, it rests on a tripod of the language itself, its libraries, and the JVM. In the TIOBE programming language league charts, it has been at the top for as long as the measurements have been made (since 2002), overtaken by C only […]

Posted 22 November 2009 † johan § Software development ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

The future of the web browser

The web browser, it is safe to say, has gone from humble origins to being the single most widely used piece of desktop software (based on my own usage, but I don’t think I’m untypical). This development continues today. The battles being fought and the tactical decisions being made here reach a very large audience […]

Posted 06 August 2009 † johan § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,