Twitter has phased out insensitive programming terms that reference slavery after a petition by employees. According to a report from CNET, engineers successfully convinced Twitter to nix the terms ...

Twitter engineers have been working since January on an internal effort to replace problematic yet commonplace programming language like “master” and “slave,” CNET reported. It’s part of a larger ...

To write a story about the complex problems being addressed by Owens & Minor in updating its legacy system presents a couple of challenges for the general reader. One, the story has to deal with ...

In computer science, object-oriented programming, OOP for short, is a computer programming paradigm. The idea behind object-oriented programming is that a computer program may be seen as composed of a ...

Raph Koster couldn't help but wonder when he read the blog post entitled, "Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups," if he had a hand in creating that terminology. Sharding, as this blog post put it, ...

In software engineering, the programming paradigm of aspect-oriented programming (AOP), also called aspect-oriented software development (AOSD), attempts to aid programmers in the separation of ...

Global enterprises have loads of terminology to manage. And working with terminology is worth it: When applied as part of an enterprise-wide content strategy, all levels of communication benefit from ...