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Friday, October 29, 2010
Away from Java, PHP: Top 7 languages techies turn to
If you are a programmer, you would not take the risk of not knowing the popular programming languages like Java or say PHP. By this it does not mean that these are the only languages on which every programmer or coder would depend to provide solutions to increasingly common problems. If one would think out of the box, there are several programming languages that have proved themselves capable to solve the common problems in programming, reports Peter Wayner of InfoWorld.
Variety is the spice of life and this also applies to programming languages too. And why shouldn't programmers opt for newer languages to adopt new and various other features which the dominant languages do not offer? The fact is, programmers depend heavily on popularly used languages to exist in the dominant paradigm.
Now let's take a look at some of the niche languages on which the enterprises are depending. The seven programming languages that are being adopted by enterprises are enlisted below:
1) PYTHON: Now when organizations are in plans to shift their applications to the cloud, Python could be the niche language they were longing for. Python has the kind of structure that is easily scalable in the cloud. Python is supposed to be the most preferred programming language for two kinds of people-one who hate using brackets and those who hate scientists. Brackets helped in the creation of Python by building a version of Perl, that is easier to read as it does not involve many opening and closing of brackets.This language never offered any data structures or elements explicitly tuned to meet the needs of scientists.
2) RUBY: Like Python, Ruby is another promising tool often pushed to the margin despite many arguing about Ruby and Python not being niche languages.Ruby is becoming popular for prototyping.Its entrance was marked with the Web 2.0 explosion and during this time many websites experimented on Ruby. Ruby on Rails sites are devoted to cataloging data that can be stored in tables. Well-known examples include Web applications like Basecamp, Backcamp, and Campfire from 37Signals, a collection of websites that knits together group discussions, debates, and schedules.
3) MATLAB: Due to the large volumes of data which the organizations need to analyze, Matlab which has been built for mathematicians to solve systems of linear equations, has found rising interest in the enterprise . Many of the more sophisticated statistical techniques that match people with advertisements, songs, or Web pages depend upon the power of algorithms like those solved by Matlab. MathWorks, the company behind Matlab, offers a diverse set of whitepapers showing how engineers are searching for statistical answers.
4) JAVA SCRIPT: Java is supposed to be the most compiled language on Earth. Every browser downloads the code and recompiles it every time someone loads a Web page. The increasing dominance of AJAX-savvy Web pages, JavaScript is rarely thought of as a language that runs on the big iron. Netscape tried to make JavaScript the common language on its server platform back in 1996, but ended up establishing it only in the browser.
5) ERLANG: Erlang is an an open source language first created by scientists at Ericsson Computing Laboratory, excels at various tasks like responding to different independent messages concurrently and it addresses the most difficult part of enterprise computing. The niche language mixes traditional facets of functional programming with a virtual machine that compiles down to machine code. Through this language, the programmer is compelled to build something that is easier to spread across multiple cores and multiple machines.
6) COBOL: It once used to be a dominant language in almost every enterprise and so it would not be fair to tag it as a niche language.This language has been enhanced hundreds of times since its inception. Cobol jockeys get to play with object-oriented extensions, self-modifying code, and practically every other gimmick. Cobol has got a programmer friendly syntax that is more similar to actual nouns and verbs that form clauses and sentences.
7) CUDA EXTENSIONS: CUDA extensions are not technically a language they are just extensions to C. CUDA extensions include machine vision, massive simulations, and huge statistical computations. Many problems of data analysis are naturally massively parallel, making GPU processors worth a look.
To adopt some variety in programming, programmers are adopting many other niche programming languages that offer unique features those are not found in the any other programming language. As days will advance, programmers will have variety programming languages which will help them to deal with some of the common problems faced by enterprises.
Variety is the spice of life and this also applies to programming languages too. And why shouldn't programmers opt for newer languages to adopt new and various other features which the dominant languages do not offer? The fact is, programmers depend heavily on popularly used languages to exist in the dominant paradigm.
Now let's take a look at some of the niche languages on which the enterprises are depending. The seven programming languages that are being adopted by enterprises are enlisted below:
1) PYTHON: Now when organizations are in plans to shift their applications to the cloud, Python could be the niche language they were longing for. Python has the kind of structure that is easily scalable in the cloud. Python is supposed to be the most preferred programming language for two kinds of people-one who hate using brackets and those who hate scientists. Brackets helped in the creation of Python by building a version of Perl, that is easier to read as it does not involve many opening and closing of brackets.This language never offered any data structures or elements explicitly tuned to meet the needs of scientists.
2) RUBY: Like Python, Ruby is another promising tool often pushed to the margin despite many arguing about Ruby and Python not being niche languages.Ruby is becoming popular for prototyping.Its entrance was marked with the Web 2.0 explosion and during this time many websites experimented on Ruby. Ruby on Rails sites are devoted to cataloging data that can be stored in tables. Well-known examples include Web applications like Basecamp, Backcamp, and Campfire from 37Signals, a collection of websites that knits together group discussions, debates, and schedules.
3) MATLAB: Due to the large volumes of data which the organizations need to analyze, Matlab which has been built for mathematicians to solve systems of linear equations, has found rising interest in the enterprise . Many of the more sophisticated statistical techniques that match people with advertisements, songs, or Web pages depend upon the power of algorithms like those solved by Matlab. MathWorks, the company behind Matlab, offers a diverse set of whitepapers showing how engineers are searching for statistical answers.
4) JAVA SCRIPT: Java is supposed to be the most compiled language on Earth. Every browser downloads the code and recompiles it every time someone loads a Web page. The increasing dominance of AJAX-savvy Web pages, JavaScript is rarely thought of as a language that runs on the big iron. Netscape tried to make JavaScript the common language on its server platform back in 1996, but ended up establishing it only in the browser.
5) ERLANG: Erlang is an an open source language first created by scientists at Ericsson Computing Laboratory, excels at various tasks like responding to different independent messages concurrently and it addresses the most difficult part of enterprise computing. The niche language mixes traditional facets of functional programming with a virtual machine that compiles down to machine code. Through this language, the programmer is compelled to build something that is easier to spread across multiple cores and multiple machines.
6) COBOL: It once used to be a dominant language in almost every enterprise and so it would not be fair to tag it as a niche language.This language has been enhanced hundreds of times since its inception. Cobol jockeys get to play with object-oriented extensions, self-modifying code, and practically every other gimmick. Cobol has got a programmer friendly syntax that is more similar to actual nouns and verbs that form clauses and sentences.
7) CUDA EXTENSIONS: CUDA extensions are not technically a language they are just extensions to C. CUDA extensions include machine vision, massive simulations, and huge statistical computations. Many problems of data analysis are naturally massively parallel, making GPU processors worth a look.
To adopt some variety in programming, programmers are adopting many other niche programming languages that offer unique features those are not found in the any other programming language. As days will advance, programmers will have variety programming languages which will help them to deal with some of the common problems faced by enterprises.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
10 ways to retain your employees
Info Tech companies are the ones that suffer from high attrition rates and the growing demand for trained professionals. During and after the global economic recession, enterprises find it difficult to effectively deploy their human resource and systematically plan a workforce infrastructure. This is where employee retention becomes instrumental to the firm.
Key employee retention is critical to the long term health and success of an enterprise. Apart from the usual ways employed by the firm to retain employees like increasing the organization's level of professionalism and transparency and conventional ways of measuring employee satisfaction, mentioned here are some 10 ways to effectively retain your employees:
1. Ensuring employee satisfaction - An unhappy and insecure employ is worse than your biggest competitor. In the long run for competition and meeting project deadlines, IT firms miss out on the comfort level of their employees. A comfortable employee knows clearly what is expected from him every day at work. The firm should provide an ambience where the employee can voice his opinion freely and appreciate their efforts, thereby making them comfortable.
2. Ensuring proper feedback - Clarity and feedback is an important area where executives go wrong. Hence employees complaint about lack of clarity of expectations and earning potential, lack of feedback about performance and failure to provide a framework within which the employee perceives he can succeed. These flaws should be handled effectively.
3. Promoting employees from within - A company that constantly fills vacancies by hiring from outside is certain to face retention problems. Employees who realize that they are unlikely to be promoted to fill the vacancies will leave the organization. Promoting employees from within is a sound retention strategy.
4. Balancing Individual and organizational goals - Many companies fall into the trap of expecting their employees to subsume their individual objectives before the organizational one which forces employees to leave. This should be balanced by offering them acquire new skills and providing comprehensive knowledge on projects which at least promotes a feeling that their objectives are satisfied to an extent.
5. Acknowledging your employees - A common place grievance during an exit interview is that the employee never felt senior executives knew he existed. Its challenging since IT is a highly structured hierarchy. But senior officials should see to it that employees are met with and briefed periodically.
6. Fresh Workplace ambience - Employees are as much family people as they are workers. A firm sans fun environment may lead to attrition. Also a thickly packed project, a cubicle or office space may add to their woes. A fresh office space will in turn make the workplace more fun.
7. Ensuring a match between authority and accountability - Decentralization of task is synonymous to an IT project. Most companies fall into the trap of holding a project leader accountable for a specific activity without empowering them with the authority to perform it well. Even worse, another employee assigned the same task may be left unaccountable which will add only to the attrition rate.
8. Involving employees in the decision-making process - People like to work in organizations where their opinions count. Employee's involvement in decision-making is directly proportional to the organization's retention-level. A participative decision-making process is good and total empowerment, better.
9. Making performance appraisals objective - Employees like to know how, when, and by whom their performance is going to be measured. An appraisal process that lists objective and measurable criteria for performance appraisal removes the uncertainty in the minds of employees that their superiors can rate their performance any which way they please.
10. Competitive pay package - Pay hike comes last in the list for me let alone ESOPs. Money isn't a motivator, but it is an effective de-motivator. While organizations that pay best-in-industry salaries may find themselves unable to use that fact to motivate their employees, those that do not could find their best employees leaving.
Thank You : SiliconIndia
Key employee retention is critical to the long term health and success of an enterprise. Apart from the usual ways employed by the firm to retain employees like increasing the organization's level of professionalism and transparency and conventional ways of measuring employee satisfaction, mentioned here are some 10 ways to effectively retain your employees:
1. Ensuring employee satisfaction - An unhappy and insecure employ is worse than your biggest competitor. In the long run for competition and meeting project deadlines, IT firms miss out on the comfort level of their employees. A comfortable employee knows clearly what is expected from him every day at work. The firm should provide an ambience where the employee can voice his opinion freely and appreciate their efforts, thereby making them comfortable.
2. Ensuring proper feedback - Clarity and feedback is an important area where executives go wrong. Hence employees complaint about lack of clarity of expectations and earning potential, lack of feedback about performance and failure to provide a framework within which the employee perceives he can succeed. These flaws should be handled effectively.
3. Promoting employees from within - A company that constantly fills vacancies by hiring from outside is certain to face retention problems. Employees who realize that they are unlikely to be promoted to fill the vacancies will leave the organization. Promoting employees from within is a sound retention strategy.
4. Balancing Individual and organizational goals - Many companies fall into the trap of expecting their employees to subsume their individual objectives before the organizational one which forces employees to leave. This should be balanced by offering them acquire new skills and providing comprehensive knowledge on projects which at least promotes a feeling that their objectives are satisfied to an extent.
5. Acknowledging your employees - A common place grievance during an exit interview is that the employee never felt senior executives knew he existed. Its challenging since IT is a highly structured hierarchy. But senior officials should see to it that employees are met with and briefed periodically.
6. Fresh Workplace ambience - Employees are as much family people as they are workers. A firm sans fun environment may lead to attrition. Also a thickly packed project, a cubicle or office space may add to their woes. A fresh office space will in turn make the workplace more fun.
7. Ensuring a match between authority and accountability - Decentralization of task is synonymous to an IT project. Most companies fall into the trap of holding a project leader accountable for a specific activity without empowering them with the authority to perform it well. Even worse, another employee assigned the same task may be left unaccountable which will add only to the attrition rate.
8. Involving employees in the decision-making process - People like to work in organizations where their opinions count. Employee's involvement in decision-making is directly proportional to the organization's retention-level. A participative decision-making process is good and total empowerment, better.
9. Making performance appraisals objective - Employees like to know how, when, and by whom their performance is going to be measured. An appraisal process that lists objective and measurable criteria for performance appraisal removes the uncertainty in the minds of employees that their superiors can rate their performance any which way they please.
10. Competitive pay package - Pay hike comes last in the list for me let alone ESOPs. Money isn't a motivator, but it is an effective de-motivator. While organizations that pay best-in-industry salaries may find themselves unable to use that fact to motivate their employees, those that do not could find their best employees leaving.
Thank You : SiliconIndia
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Industry assurance goes down a tad: CII survey
A latest survey by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) found that the domestic industry expects GDP to grow at 8 percent in the current fiscal year, and thus create a lack of confidence among the country's business community about the economy's overall prospects. CII's 74th Business Outlook Survey (BCI) for October-December quarter based on responses of 150 firms showed that the Business Confidence Index (BCI) is lower for the manufacturing and services sector.
Industry assurance goes down a tad: CII survey
BCI, which measures entrepreneurial optimism, for October-December 2010-11 fell by 1.4 points to 66.2 from 67.6 in the previous quarter. "These results are consistent with the fact that the overall high inflation is likely to make domestic consumers frugal and hence affect demand, while a slump in the global growth rate in the later half of 2010 is likely to hit global demand," said Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII.
Survey also found that the lower business confidence for the services and manufacturing can be explained by the growing concern on the inflationary condition and the tightening of monetary policy that is likely to affect the availability of credit. The recent U.S. policy development that intends to cut tax incentives to American companies that outsource jobs is also likely to affect the domestic services sector, given that 61 per cent of India's IT-BPO exports are towards the U.S., the survey identified inflation and high interest rates as the main concerns.
Industry assurance goes down a tad: CII survey
BCI, which measures entrepreneurial optimism, for October-December 2010-11 fell by 1.4 points to 66.2 from 67.6 in the previous quarter. "These results are consistent with the fact that the overall high inflation is likely to make domestic consumers frugal and hence affect demand, while a slump in the global growth rate in the later half of 2010 is likely to hit global demand," said Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII.
Survey also found that the lower business confidence for the services and manufacturing can be explained by the growing concern on the inflationary condition and the tightening of monetary policy that is likely to affect the availability of credit. The recent U.S. policy development that intends to cut tax incentives to American companies that outsource jobs is also likely to affect the domestic services sector, given that 61 per cent of India's IT-BPO exports are towards the U.S., the survey identified inflation and high interest rates as the main concerns.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Nakido - Fast And Easy File-sharing Service Offering Free Direct Download Links
Nakido a new entrant into one-click file-hosting arena, hosts your files for free and provides a direct download link which you can share with others allowing single click download. Nakido also features an innovative web-based download manager "Nakido Flag" which utilizes peer-to-peer technology to make file-sharing faster, Nakido Flag gives you the ability to resume broken downloads and allows you to use the web-based download manager features like queuing of multiple files to the download list which gets downloaded to your computer automatically.
Nakido Flag
Nakido makes it easy to share files in Twitter and Facebook. You can share any files you want - photos, videos, documents, music, archived files, even HD videos. Nakido has no limit on the size of the file you upload, which means you can upload a large file directly to Nakido without having to split it into many small parts due to the limitation of file size per file. Sharing files is also very simple, just select the file you want to share, upload to Nakido, then copy the short URL (e.g. NK.DO/A1C), enter your Twitter text, and tweet it on your Twitter account. By clicking on the short URL, your friends/followers would be able to download the file to their computer.
Nakido Flag
Nakido makes it easy to share files in Twitter and Facebook. You can share any files you want - photos, videos, documents, music, archived files, even HD videos. Nakido has no limit on the size of the file you upload, which means you can upload a large file directly to Nakido without having to split it into many small parts due to the limitation of file size per file. Sharing files is also very simple, just select the file you want to share, upload to Nakido, then copy the short URL (e.g. NK.DO/A1C), enter your Twitter text, and tweet it on your Twitter account. By clicking on the short URL, your friends/followers would be able to download the file to their computer.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
U.S. search engine rankings for September 2010: Google Sites lead
Reston : Google Sites have led the core search market in the U.S. for the month of September with 66.1 percent of search conducted, reveals a study by Internet marketing research firm comScore. According to its monthly 'comScore qSearch' analysis of the U.S. search marketplace, the core search of Google has increased 0.7 share points from 65.4 percent in August this year.
Google is followed by Yahoo! Sites with 16.7 percent and Microsoft sites with 11.2 percent. Ask Network has captured the fourth place with 3.7 percent of explicit core searches, while AOL LLC Network stands at fifth place with 2.3 percent.
Over 16 billion explicit core searches were conducted in September, out of which 10.6 billion searches are belonged to Google Sites. Yahoo! Sites are in second with 2.7 billion and Microsoft Sites in third with 1.8 billion. Ask Network accounted for 593 million explicit core searches followed by AOL LLC Network with 362 million.
Of total core search queries conducted, Google Sites accounted for 62.9 percent followed by Yahoo! Sites with 19.2 percent and Microsoft Sites with 12.5 percent. Ask Network captured 3.4 percent of total search queries, followed by AOL LLC with 2.0 percent.
Out of 17.7 billion total core search queries conducted in September, Google Sites lead with 11.1 billion searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 3.4 billion and Microsoft Sites with 2.2 billion.
Recently, Google introduced its new feature named Google Instant Search that delivers results in real-time while users type their query. comScore's September 2010 qSearch figures reflect the impact of Google Instant Search.
Google is followed by Yahoo! Sites with 16.7 percent and Microsoft sites with 11.2 percent. Ask Network has captured the fourth place with 3.7 percent of explicit core searches, while AOL LLC Network stands at fifth place with 2.3 percent.
Over 16 billion explicit core searches were conducted in September, out of which 10.6 billion searches are belonged to Google Sites. Yahoo! Sites are in second with 2.7 billion and Microsoft Sites in third with 1.8 billion. Ask Network accounted for 593 million explicit core searches followed by AOL LLC Network with 362 million.
Of total core search queries conducted, Google Sites accounted for 62.9 percent followed by Yahoo! Sites with 19.2 percent and Microsoft Sites with 12.5 percent. Ask Network captured 3.4 percent of total search queries, followed by AOL LLC with 2.0 percent.
Out of 17.7 billion total core search queries conducted in September, Google Sites lead with 11.1 billion searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 3.4 billion and Microsoft Sites with 2.2 billion.
Recently, Google introduced its new feature named Google Instant Search that delivers results in real-time while users type their query. comScore's September 2010 qSearch figures reflect the impact of Google Instant Search.
Now, viewers turn away from TV for social networking
Mumbai: Most of the youngsters among the prime time viewers of television channels are now switching to social networking sites and the internet, reports Priyanka Joshi from the Business Standard.
According online audience measurement agecy, the highest activity on the internet is recorded between 6 pm and 10 pm. "We found that users between 15 and 24 years are most active on social media sites like Facebook and Orkut between 5 pm and 9 pm, indicating they are logging in from home PCs. While users in the 25-35 year age group are most active on social sites at around 3 pm, indicating extensive use of social networks at work," says Amit Bhartiya, Business Head, ViziSense.
Even if numbers tilt in favor of the TV industry, capturing a slice of the online audience and mobile subscribers is getting critical for broadcasters. "Social networking is finding users beyond the top eight metros. In fact, almost 60 per cent of users on social media sites come from outside of the metros and that explains how engaging the platforms are for youth," added Bhartiya.
Facebook, LinkedIn and Ibibo remain the top social networking sites, where an average Indian internet user spends the most time.
According online audience measurement agecy, the highest activity on the internet is recorded between 6 pm and 10 pm. "We found that users between 15 and 24 years are most active on social media sites like Facebook and Orkut between 5 pm and 9 pm, indicating they are logging in from home PCs. While users in the 25-35 year age group are most active on social sites at around 3 pm, indicating extensive use of social networks at work," says Amit Bhartiya, Business Head, ViziSense.
Even if numbers tilt in favor of the TV industry, capturing a slice of the online audience and mobile subscribers is getting critical for broadcasters. "Social networking is finding users beyond the top eight metros. In fact, almost 60 per cent of users on social media sites come from outside of the metros and that explains how engaging the platforms are for youth," added Bhartiya.
Facebook, LinkedIn and Ibibo remain the top social networking sites, where an average Indian internet user spends the most time.
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