ToughtWorks’ Technology Radar – new edition

Is this new technology worth learning or maybe it is yet ready to use in production? ToughtWorks is a consulting company working, among others, on assesments of emerging technologies maturity. Here is the new edition of its Technology Radar - January 2014. I am sure that everybody will find out what interests him in this document. …

Technology Radar: May 2013

The new technology report was released recently. Prepared by the ThoughtWorks Technology Advisory Board, points out emerging technologies and trends on IT market. Find the report here (in pdf) It helps to assess if the novelty you've recently found is ready to adopt or was not tested enough yet. There you'll find out that NoSQL are …

Clean Code: Dont use if’s! Use polymorphism instead

Writing clean code is crucial, so the software developer constantly needs to improve his skills and code understanding. My way to do it, is to explore others' best practices. Here is one of them to consider: I am not fully convinced that all the if's shall be refactored and removed, however the example given is …