“C++ with some fixes” – Java turns 20
On the 23rd of May 1995, Java 1.0a2 was officially made available to download. Founder James Gosling originally thought it would “Just be C++ with some fixes.”
Tech Women to Follow on Twitter
Invitation to flame war it may be in some quarters, but there’s no escaping the reality that women are under represented in technology. Stack Overflow’s 2015 Developer survey found just 5.8 per cent of its 26 000 respondents had two X chromosomes. Small in number they may be, but many of the leading voices in […]
Five Ways to Future-proof Your Tech Career
Few industries move as fast as tech. Carving out a long, fulfilling career can be challenging when it’s hard to know which emerging or current technologies will help advance your chances. Finding the right balance between tech skills that are in demand and ones that will stay in demand takes a bit of thinking. To […]
Tech companies are looking for usability experts
Henry Ford once said “If I asked my users what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse.” If only he’d asked a UX designer, he’d know what they need.
Five Qualities That Make A Really Good QA Engineer
A good QA engineer can readily identify requirements and scope out relevant negative/positive scenarios at every stage of the process.
Zartis are Irish Tech Champions at the European Business Awards
The European Business Awards now in its 8th year, engaged with over 24,000 business from 33 European countries and Zartis is one of Ireland’s 20 tech companies to have been named as National Champion; going through to the second phase of the competition. A panel of judges made up of Europe-wide business leaders, academics and […]
Career Advice: Top three Tips from Reid Hoffman
In this presentation, Reid focuses on three key recommendations he had for graduates in terms of their careers.
Java: Learn Once, Work Anywhere
There’s no escaping Java. 97% of the world’s enterprise desktops, and billions of mobile phones are testament to the ‘write once, run anywhere’ philosophy.
Why ColdFusion refused to die
My interest in ColdFusion came about when I worked as an agency recruiter; someone asked me to find a ColdFusion Developer and I pretended I knew what it was. It turned out to be my first placement, and I developed a soft spot for this underdog of the programming world. Around seven or eight years […]
Who needs software developers anyway?
As a precursor to our first quarterly report on tech hiring in Ireland, Zartis.com are releasing some research from this report.
