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Yes, I know it’s a little bit excessive ’cause there’re more things inside Chrome browser, but just in order to catch your attention it’s a good title.

Recently, I’ve seen in one of my feeds a graph showing language programs on the rise or more used right now. Two things to highlight:

1. php is loosing percent of use: It just makes me think… up to you, easy language, fast & durty, but now, if you wanna use it for a medium up to big project you can’t go out of a framework, so may it happens that programmers prefers to customize apps or cms instead of wrote out all that code?
2. javascript is going up and so it keeps: there’s no flash or silerlight catching up javascript, again a short tought about it. There’s no browser without javascript support, no plugins needed so just embed your code and that’s all. Finally, Google uses browsers as a universal client for a new server-client arquitecture, where they wrote in javascript for almost every browser and they uses python or whatever for server

So, make javascript faster it’s a strategy for Google’s TWD. There’s only a leak, Linux and Mac versions 🙂

This days I’m studying OOP at the UOC. We need to draw UML diagrams, this University feels confortable with Free Software and what do you think they recomend for that task? They recomend us ArgoUML which is a nice tool.

ArgoUML has been wrote in Java and one of the most interesting things is that you may get your code in different languages, java, php … (don’t remember if more languages are supported), it supports UML standard diagrams, and finally it runs quite well on my 512Mb RAM laptop.

I rembember that I’ve wrote opinions such as Java Sucks and so on. That was my starting point for a long time. Quique, who is a nice person and also a Java coder (yes, both possibilities are compatible) told me that my opinion was forge in suffering very bad code in Java.

Now I’m force to write in Java for Objected Orientation Programming subject at my University on-line degree.

So, as I was suspecting from a long time, Quique was right. It’s very easy write in Java (nice) and it’s really a powerfull combination JDK + Eclipse. The truth is that there’re very bad programmers all around, or probably, unreasonable customers demanding aplication modifcations constantly that modifies the design and the performance of the whole thing.

I’m also still believing that programmers job is absolutely devalued and underpaid here in Spain.