I’ve been using Microsoft SQL Server for a long time but I’m a bit fed up with it. Especially when teaching. The database engine and the client are huge (many gigabytes in size). The client, SQL Management Studio, has been around for a long time (since 2005) but still has…

Let’s say you are a developer and want to Google something. I guess your process looks something like this: Write a query in google Scroll down to the first StackOverflow hit Click on the link, wait for the page, ignore the actual question, and scroll down to the answer Read…

Tampermonkey is a tool where you can inject your own JavaScript code into websites you frequently use. One of your scripts runs when you surf to YouTube. Another script runs when you visit LinkedIn. A third script runs when you enter a specific section of Facebook. On YouTube, I often…

I tried OpenAI’s incredible chatbot ChatGPT. One of the key features of the chatbot is that it has memory and can reflect what has been said before. Here’s the result. The headers show my questions and then you see the response from the bot. Explain how GIT works for a one years old child I’m sorry, but it is not…

The most popular programming languages are: Python C Java C++ C# Besides these five, we there are three jokers: SQL Rust Assembly Yes, I know, programming language is just a tool to solve problems. …

It’s what you get if you mix Haskell, TypeScript, Python, and Rust — Elm is a language for writing front-end JavaScript code. One more!? I’m usually skeptical of anything new, but I’ve been testing Elm for a while and I’m very impressed. There is something exciting going on here. A goldmine to explore. Why is Elm needed? What is wrong with competitors like…

Kirsten Westeinde is senior developer manager at Shopify, a company with more than 10,000 employees. She is interviewed in Scott Hanselman’s pod. Here follows a summary of the episode and a couple of reflections. Developer vs Manager track In many companies, the only career path is to go from engineer to manager. In Shopify…

With Codex JavaScript Sandbox you can generate JavaScript code from text (!) I spent an afternoon and solved one school assignment. The end result of the exercise should look like this:

Codex is an OpenAI’s product for automatic code generation. I teach programming and tested the AI to solve a programming task in JavaScript. I was amazed at how good it performed. And terrified at the same time. One task I give to my students is to create the following website: