Concurrency and asynchronous processing (Part 3: https://medium.com/@romaninsh/from-fortran-to-modern-programming-languages-evolution-of-concepts-and-paradigms-part-3-cf59c3a04a6b) Support for concurrency dates back to the days of Fortran. The potential for parallelism in DO loops in Fortran was mainly a product of the hardware and compiler optimizations, rather than an inherent feature of the language.

Functions and Subroutines (Part 2: Control Structures https://medium.com/@romaninsh/from-fortran-to-modern-programming-languages-evolution-of-concepts-and-paradigms-part-2-8c304fcc67e7) Fortran was the first high-level programming language to introduce the concepts of functions and subroutines as we understand them today. While Assembly languages had the concept of “subroutines” or “procedures” (sequences of instructions that could be jumped to from multiple points in the code and…

Control Structures (Part 1: https://medium.com/@romaninsh/from-fortran-to-modern-programming-languages-evolution-of-concepts-and-paradigms-part-1-9d0cca12d6d0) In early computing, Assembly was the primary way to communicate with machines. Assembly is low-level, with instructions often directly mapping to machine instructions. This made coding cumbersome and less intuitive. Enter Fortran. DO Loops: Fortran’s DO loops were one of the first high-level iterations constructs. In Assembly…

Modern programming languages are much more different to those developers used 70 years ago. But how exactly different features evolved and which languages introduced those features and concepts? Lets start with Fortran and look at the evolution timeline regarding: Variables with Types (👇): Unlike Assembly, which deals with registers and…

I have used AWS for many years but one of the concept I really struggled initially was AWS IAM — and permission control in general. I wrote this introduction to ease into the main concepts and help you tackle the overwhelming documentation on the subject. AWS Account When you log into AWS…

If you are working with AWS CloudFront, you might have a large number of CloudFront distributions sitting there. I have over 100 from various tests and scripts. It’s not easy to remove them. You have to disable each CloudFront distribution first, wait half a hour, then remove it. …

ATK (or Agile Toolkit) is a collection of PHP frameworks and components designed to simplify development of data-intensive Web App. Mostly used in the building of admin systems as well as data manipulation web apps, ATK UI is very simple to learn for those who never used PHP in the…

Disclaimer: To those unfamiliar with ATK Data — it’s a high-level data abstraction PHP framework. (Read my article on why ATK Data was created). Our current focus is on multi-record operations. Particularly we focus on reference mapping and complex data structures, so in this article I wanted to give you…

An a developer sooner or later you’ll will have to add bulk data import into your app. What may seem like a trivial task could hide some complexities. As a maintainer of ATK Data project, I wanted to talk about some of the challenges and share some ideas on how…