5 Programming Languages Every Software Engineer Should Learn

I have read somewhere that programmer should learn a new programming language every year ( I think it's code complete, not sure, though), but if you cannot do so, I suggest to at least learn following five programming language to do well in your career. Everybody loves polyglot programmer and an all-rounder who is versatile enough to write a quick script and can also write complex Java programs. In fact, it's almost mandatory for a senior developer to learn more than one language. Interviewers are giving more attention to an engineer who has good experience with multiple languages e.g. C++ and Java goes quite well, so is Python and Java. I personally like Software Engineers who have strong experience in either C++ or Java and can write scripts in groovy, Perl or Python.

10 Example of lsof commands in UNIX and Linux

It's been a long time since I have written anything on UNIX or Linux, but today I'll talk about the lsof command, a utility command every system admin and developers love. The lsof command stands for list open file descriptors and as the name suggests, it is used to find open files by process. Since almost everything in UNIX are file, you can use lsof command to find an open regular file, a directory, a symbolic link, a block special file, an NFS mounted file, a socket stream, a shared library, a character special file, a regular pipe, a named pipe, an internet socket, a UNIX domain socket and many others. I have mostly used it to find all the files opened by a particular process, which I will show you in the coming section.

Top 5 Professional Email Writing Courses for Programmers and IT Professionals

One of my readers emailed me a couple of days ago and asked If I could suggest something to improve his email writing skills? He says that he is very good at work and programming but sucks on writing emails and because of that he never gets the visibility he deserved, resulting in no promotion or career growth. This sounds me a very common problem, especially among programmers whose native language is not English, and who have never attended any business or email writing course. In fact, it was a problem with me as well but I slowly picked it up though I am still far behind with many people I know who have excellent email communication skills.

Top 5 TensorFlow and Machine Learning Courses for Programmers

If you are curious about Artificial intelligence, Data Science, and Machine learning then I am sure you have heard about TensorFlow, Google's machine learning API, which they have used to develop the RankBrain algorithm for Google Search. TensorFlow is one of the most popular machine learning API which allows you to automate several real-world tasks, for example, you can use it for image detection. In fact, a Japanese farmer turned programmer used it to detect the best quality Cucumber, which only his father and mother can do it with his years of experience. That's the power of machine learning, which is now available to everyone because of TensorFlow. If you have not read that story, I strongly suggest you read, in fact, that's one of the few stories which motivated me to learn more about machine learning.  You can find the link on further learning section of this article.

How to avoid deadlock in Java Threads?

How to avoid deadlock in Java? is one of the popular Java interview question and flavor of the season for multi-threading, asked mostly at a senior level with lots of follow up questions. Even though question looks very basic but most of the Java developers get stuck once you start going deep.

Interview questions start with "What is a deadlock?"
The answer is simple when two or more threads are waiting for each other to release the resource they need (lock) and get stuck for infinite time, the situation is called deadlock. It will only happen in case of multitasking or multi-threading.

Top 5 Hibernate Books for Java Developers - Best, Must read

Hibernate is one of the most popular, open source ORM (Object Relational Mapping) framework, which has now become a standard for developing persistence layer on Java enterprise application, along with JPA (Java Persistence API). I often receive requests to suggest which book is best to learn to hibernate or recommendation about some good books and training course on Spring and Hibernate. This motivates me to write this article about some of the best books on Hibernate currently available on the market. Earlier I have shared some of the must-read books on Spring framework for a Java developer, which is quite helpful for picking a book on Spring. Similar to Spring framework, experience in Hibernate is most sought after thing in Java JEE development roles.