Coding matters: Your cellphone overlord
Jacqui Coosner
2025-05-30
Some of us believe we are the masters of our cell phones. But who (or what) is really in charge?
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Coding matters: A dirty secret
Jacqui Coosner
2025-05-23
For the sake of your developers and our economy, stop buying online courses and invest in local instructor-led training.
Coding matters: AI vs software developers
Jacqui Coosner
2025-04-04
I apologise: today I am writing a longer, more serious post. A dire future? The AI Futures Project is a small research group that tries to predict the future of AI. It has written a terrifying forecast of the next few years. It reads like the sci-fi stories where robots
Coding matters: Creepy-crawly categories
Jacqui Coosner
2025-03-20
Programmers have their own way to classify bugs. Here are some of the weird names I found for different kinds of errors.
Coding matters: Support your call centre
Jacqui Coosner
2025-02-07
We all love to hate call centres. The endless repetition of "Press 1 for this" and "Press 2 for that", often with options that make it hard to choose. That dreadful announcement that "You are number 54 in the queue". Followed by the inane "Please be patient. Your call is
Coding matters: About heroes
Jacqui Coosner
2024-11-08
Some thoughts about heroes and stories. And the ways that we can be small everyday heroes.
Some things get better with age
Jacqui Coosner
2024-09-05
Some things get better with age, like wine, and whiskey, and cheese. And jeans. And, apparently, cast-iron skillets. But nobody ever says that technology gets better with age.
Thread-Local Variables in Java
Lewis Coosner
2024-08-22
Lewis explains ThreadLocal Variables in Java.
Escaping Object References in Java
Lewis Coosner
2024-08-06
Escaping object references can become an issue with concurrent running threads.
Are Floats Faster Than Doubles in Java?
Lewis Coosner
2024-07-30
How do we choose a float data type over a double to represent a value? And once we’ve chosen one over the other, how will it affect the speed of our application? Is a float faster than a double, or vice versa?