If you’re like me and check the same sites every day, it gets frustrating to go to them each time. Sure, Google Chrome makes it easy by showing you the top 8 sites you have visited the most recently but still, you have to open a tab and click on the site, for each site you want to view. So I thought – can I create a script to do this for me so I only have one thing to click on whenever I want to check my emails, my facebook, my blog, my google reader and a couple of other sites I regularly check?
Programming and web development tools – too much reliance on Google?
Over the least couple of years, the rise of Google in the field of programming and web development tools has been quite spectacular.
Google Android is gaining ground in the smart mobile phone market, Google App Engine and Google Web Toolkit are helping Java and Python programmers develop web apps, Google has established its annual conference Google I/O as the conference all programmers should attend (sadly, I cannot but I would dearly like to), not to mention the success of its Google Maps API and many other tools available for programmers.
Like many other programmers, I am very excited about their tools but I can’t help asking myself: do we rely too much on Google? Only the future will tell but I fear that despite all of Google’s official good intentions, its real aim is to create a market monopoly that Microsoft can only dream of – and then, it will be able to bleed all programmers and users dry.
(When) Should I learn another programming language?
Every few weeks, I come across a programming article/blog post/project/forum debate etc that gets me excited about another programming language. I maintain a list of languages I’d like to learn, a list of applications I’d like to do, a list of skills I’d like to develop.
Every so often, I ask myself if I should start learning a new programming language, and which one to pick (so many to choose from!).
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