The Curious Programmer

Not a day goes by anymore where you don’t hear someone mention “The Cloud” in some context. Cloud services and solutions are all the rage these days. Why though? What do these solutions offer to businesses that they don’t already have?What are the advantages of “The Cloud”? Well, as it turns out, there are many. Below

This is one of my all time favorite dialogs between a developer and his wife over a subject (HTTP and REST) that is the backbone of the web. The truth of the matter is that many professional developers have had the same questions the wife has asked. I think this dialog completely clears up the

Software applications are getting more and more complex and each platform for developing applications these days seems like its operating on a higher and higher level of abstraction to hide that complexity from the developer. In particular, when I say “a higher level of abstraction”, I am talking about “managed languages”. “Managed code” is a term coined by

I am currently (at the time this article was written anyway) working for a large (6,000+ people) Fortune 500 company. However, this was not always the case. Actually, I started my career (straight out of college) for a small biotech startup (Assurex — very cool and very advanced personalized medicine company BTW that you may want to check out).

Sadly, I am coming to the end of my twenties (I plan to be a centenarian so it’s okay). I’ve learned more in my twenties than I ever thought would be possible. I am grateful for the people I have met and experiences I have had along the way. I don’t know where I would be

Whenever I interview candidates for a position (whether a developer position or not), I want to know one very important thing about them. Something that, for me, has been the number one key attribute that successful employees all have. What is it?? The ability to problem solve! When you are an employee, the last thing

Design patterns in software development have been around for a little while now. They were made famous in 1994 from the book Design Patters: Elements of Reusable Software and consequently made the authors so famous that they are often now just referred to as the Gang of Four (GoF). The Gang of Four consisted of  Erich Gamma, Richard

Web security doesn’t always get the attention that it deserves. That is unfortunate because it leaves companies and their customers vulnerable to an array of cyber attacks. I wrote an article about How and Why companies are Hacked last week and received some emails suggesting that I outline some of the most popular cyber attacks

Anthem, Sony, Home Depot, Dairy Queen, Kmart…What do all of these companies have in common? They were hacked and lost millions! It seems like not a day goes by anymore where you don’t hear about another company that has had its private data compromised by an individual — a hacker, as some people refer to them as.

Being a developer is a lot of fun. When people ask me why I love doing it so much, I usually don’t have just one answer for them. However, one answer I give often draws a few funny looks from the questioner. I love it because everyday I learn something that I didn’t know the day before. Usually this