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So exceptions should be exceptional, unusual or rare, much like a asteroid strike!! It's right there in the name
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Finally, a Fortran Web Framework "Finally" is not quite the word that came to mind
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Why would be more the word!
Somebody has too much time on their hands.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Fortran was around before I even got into programming 13 years ago. I hate the "newest libraries" as much as anyone (without merit of course), but good lord - let it die already.
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While not a fan, I recognise FORTRAN's dominance in the field of numerical computing.
So far, nothing matches its ability at number crunching from simple to understand code. Why would its users adopt something inferior for their purposes.
I feel much the same about COBOL (although I detest it considerably more). Considering that there is 30 year old COBOL code still running, which modern language would you be willing to rewrite that in and take a bet on it being such a good investment?
It's very easy to criticise, much harder to be constructive.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I recognize FORTRAN's ability in structured, array-based numerical computing. That's what it's good at. But why in the world would you build a web framework with it?
Side note: the Fortran.io link shows a "502 bad gateway" now. I find this both amusing and relevant 
modified 22-Dec-16 10:52am.
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But how relevant is the book to the concerns of web development eight years after it was published? Because you can't write clean code in JavaScript?
Yup, headline in the form of a question. You know how that goes.
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full-stack JavaScript application
Any combination of those words just makes we want to 
Marc
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because you can't write clean code in JavaScript?
Admit it, it's worse than VB3.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Quote: Because you can't write clean code in JavaScript?
Should be a Christmas wish list for this week survey saying.
Please Santa, let my js code work for once and for all, no bug and be work any version of AngularJS, JQuery, BackBone, ...[name all the js frameworks here] 
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I read that book years ago and really disliked it. I thought it poorly written, often self-contradicting and, worst of all, dogmatic.
Unfortunately, "his" good ideas are lost in the clutter of "his" bad ones and "his" religious-like ferver. (His in quotes since several chapter were written by other people, hence some of the inconsistency.)
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The employee, who goes by the name of John Doe for privacy reasons, has filed a lawsuit against Google because he believes that the company’s confidentiality policies, which include an internal “spying program”. Google? Spying? Really?
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The line which got me:
"...employees are even forbidden from discussing possible legal violations with the company’s legal advisors..."
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From a less maliciously clickbaity site:
The lawsuit alleges that Google warns employees to not put into writing concerns about potential illegal activity within Google, even to the company’s own attorneys, because the disclosures could fall into the hands of regulators and law enforcement.
... which puts a less malicious spin on this particular item and reduces it to ligation CYA. It's almost certainly derived from the whOracle litigation; where one of the biggest clubs whOracle was using was an email from an Android Developer saying: "I think we need a license from Sun to do this."
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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So apple had the black polo-neck, and google has the blackshirts.
I like symmetry.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Enterprises are doing everything in their power to jump on the DevOps bandwagon but this journey is not all sunshine and rainbows, a recent study shows. That people are adopting it?
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It would be really interesting if they did a survey of companies "doing DevOps" and asked them if they even knew what it meant or how to do it.
Marc
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Like many things, DevOps works until it doesn't. And when it doesn't, it's such a disaster that it if it doesn't bring down any but the largest companies, it will cost them a lot of customers and money.
("...shows that companies’ road to DevOps is often blocked by an issue called the “QA wall.”"
Yeah, get rid of that actual quality assurance testing. I mean Firefox and Chrome don't... never mind.)
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One of the most challenging aspects of selling software to developers is that many, many, many developers think, no matter what it costs, that software should be cheaper. So, 'free' as in 'big price tag'?
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Reads like a mildly-disguised promotion of his site. No truly useful information. He basically just says "You're doing it wrong - stay tuned for more information right here on my website!"
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That was my take on it, too.
I was waiting for him to start saying "Instead of making this or using open-source for it, you should strongly consider buying this item, from my sponsors"
Maybe he's playing canny, and waiting to pounce in his next "article".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You’re buying support, and innovation, and you’re buying the result of someone’s dedicated and focused time.
[biased, possibly ignorant, response follows]
Oh please. If you want support, you have to buy a support contract, separate from the software. If you want innovation, yeah, sadly, look at open source, or better yet, startup companies, or even better, crowd funding sites like Kickstarter, not the giants in the industry. They don't innovate, they buy the small, often underfunded, often debt laden, innovations, and those they can't buy, they get lawyers to sue for patent infringement.
developers often undervalue software because software sales and purchasing are unnecessarily complex.
Seriously? Who the hell needs to buy software? Visual Studio Express is free. SQL Server Express is free. Whatever flavor your Linux poison is, is free. Need Office-like tools? Free!
In fact, often the free tools are BETTER than the ones you pay for!
Many developers work embedded inside large organizations where they either have no say in software purchasing, or are poorly informed to begin with when they’re involved in the process at all.
Ridiculous. I've never experienced that (not to say that there isn't a point there.) The main thing I've experienced is that, even with all the right software, it's the processes that are hosed, and I don't mean the purchasing processes.
Where does my "computing" money go? Hardware. Laptops, routers, Internet access, peripherals, etc. Otherwise, everything else is either free or really cheap. And if we're talking about a company, you either host your own servers or pay for Azure/EC2/DigitalOcean/whatever, which can of course get expensive.
Marc
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Air passengers could be subjected to a series of "shocking" incidents if security flaws in cabin entertainment systems were abused, say researchers. "Mr. Sulu: you have the helm"
OK, "The only good news is that it did not seem to be possible to cross from in-flight systems to those that control an aircraft." But still: who wrote the security for those systems? Me?
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A new study from Veracode shows while developers’ top concerns are cyberattacks and data breaches, security testing imposes a risk to their development and deadlines. I never would have guessed.
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Smile Vector is a Twitter bot that can make any celebrity smile. It scrapes the web for pictures of faces, and then it morphs their expressions using a deep-learning-powered neural network. "Who are you going to believe? Me, or your lying eyes?"
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