Will Programmers Become Obsolete in the Future?

Some “experts” claim that programming as a job will obsolete in coming years. This can be said by people who is far away from the domain or such claims can convince just those who would like this happen. Reality is different. During next, at least, 20 years demand for the traditional programmers will just increase. After that the concept of programming may slowly change, same as it changed in the past when the new paradigms appear like Object-Oriented or Functional programming those dealing with objects and functions as a building blocks accordingly. Its quite hard to predict, but the new concept can come as a transition to paradigm that will deal more with intelligent actors (IA) and entities (IE) as a building blocks. These IAs may be enriched with advanced concepts like Voice-User Interface (VUI), Cloud/Cluster Data Management Interface (CDMI), Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS), SaaS, etc. There maybe be millions of IAs and IEs available in repositories (open-source and commercial) developed by community and companies, same as millions APPs available today on app markets. Even today, there are some earlier symptoms of this concept in paradigms like agent-oriented programming and SOA. Programmers’ communities will prefer scripting languages supported by open-source community over commercial platforms. Open-source communities and largest vendors will try to set some fundamental standards to make development process more transparent, cross-platform, both front-end/back-end supportive and less dependent on specific coding language…

But what is certain even today, the role of programming in operation of the critical infrastructure will just increase, consequently increasing the cost of potential mistake. Just remind Boeing 737 Max crisis. As a response, new IDEs with with embedded Data manipulation and processing engines, BPM-interfaces and translators, reverse-engineering capabilities and testing modules based on artificial scenario-generators will appear.

Even so, human programmers will never be made obsolete…

Big Data Day Baku 2015 – or Big Day on Big Data

Big Data Day Baku 2015 – CeDAWI – Center for Data Analytics and Web Insights

The extremely fast grow of Internet Services, Web and Mobile Applications and advance of the related Pervasive, Ubiquity and Cloud Computing concepts have stumulated production of tremendous amounts of data partially available online (call metadata, texts, emails, social media updates, photos, videos, location, etc.). Even with the power of today’s modern computers it still big challenge for business and government organizations to manage, search, analyze, and visualize this vast amount of data as information. Data-Intensive computing which is intended to address this problems become quite intense during the last few years yielding strong results. Data intensive computing framework is a complex system which includes hardware, software, communications, and Distributed File System (DFS) architecture.

Just small part of this huge amount is structured (Databases, XML, logs) or semistructured (web pages, email), over 90% of this information is unstructured, what means data does not have predefined structure and model. Generally, unstructured data is useless unless applying data mining and analysis techniques. At the same time, just in case if you can process and understand your data, this data worth anything, otherwise it becomes useless.

Big Data Day Baku 2015 is the first Data-Centric event is planned to be held in Azerbaijan.
The events main goal is increase public awareness of new opportunities and challenges brought by Big Data, share experience with industry and government on the development of state-of-the-art Data Analysis technologies, attract youth to make career and do outstanding research in Data Science.

SOME OF TOPICS TO BE COVERED:

• Big Data Era – How Big is Big Data?
• Big Opportunities and Challenges brought by Big Data – Big Data Use Cases
• Open Data for Public Sector Transformation and Innovation
• Big Data Infrastructure
• Open Source Platforms and Technologies for Big Data Analytics
• Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistic
• Large-Scale Data Management Life Cycle

QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED:

• – What is Big Data Value?
• – How it will affect us all?
• – Big Data Era, but are we ready for challenges?

EVENT TARGET AUDIENCE:
Marketing specialists, Business owners, IT Professionals, Students (Participation of the students is highly encouraged), Scientists and Researchers, Government representatives

EVENT WEBSITE: http://cedawi.org/big-data-day

Fully Customized Search Engine by Google Search Ajax API

The information is most valuable wealth of humanity today. According to IDC Report we all are getting to be richer rapidly in this meaning. So that, according to this report (The Digital Universe Decade – Are You Rady? ) the amount of digital data worldwide (Digital Universe) will grow this year to 1.2 million petabytes or 1.2 zettabytes. Annual growth makes up more than 60%. By 2020 our Digital Universe will be 44 times as big as it was in 2009.
So, the ability to find appropriate piece of information within this tremendous amount structured and unstructured data getting to be more and more important. It’s why we all love Google so much! But Google is not self-centred (selfish), but rather Google makes his own technology opened for others to develop customized Search Engines, in particular (to be рonest this opennes is restricted, unfortunately).

I’m going to share with you my Fully Customized Search Engine developed by using Google Search Ajax API. If you have an idea how to improve it or you may want to share your mind, feel free to drop a comment.

HTML Code of Customized Search String Input within Container. Don’t forget to get your own Google Ajax API Key at http://code.google.com/apis/loader/signup.html
Download all in one: GSearchEngine.zip

Primary JavaScript Code based on Google Search Ajax API

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Abzetdin Adamov
// Fully Customized Search Engine by Google Search Ajax API
// JavaScript Code based on Google AJAX API
// Last modified 03/13/2011
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

var searchControl;
window.onload = onLoad;

function onLoad() {
searchControl = new GSearchControl();
//SMALL_RESULTSET, LARGE_RESULTSET
searchControl.setResultSetSize(google.search.Search.LARGE_RESULTSET);

//EXPAND_MODE_PARTIAL, EXPAND_MODE_OPEN, EXPAND_MODE_CLOSED
searchOptions = new google.search.SearcherOptions();
searchOptions.setExpandMode(google.search.SearchControl.EXPAND_MODE_OPEN);

var webSrearch = new GwebSearch();
webSrearch.setUserDefinedLabel("myWeb");
searchControl.addSearcher(webSrearch, searchOptions);

var siteSearch = new GwebSearch();
siteSearch.setUserDefinedLabel("Adamov.net.ru");
siteSearch.setSiteRestriction("adamov.net.ru");
searchControl.addSearcher(siteSearch);

var blogsSrearch = new GblogSearch();
blogsSrearch.setUserDefinedLabel("myBlogs");
searchControl.addSearcher(blogsSrearch);

var imgSrearch = new GimageSearch();
imgSrearch.setUserDefinedLabel("myImages");
searchControl.addSearcher(imgSrearch);

var drawOptions = new GdrawOptions();
// DRAW_MODE_TABBED, DRAW_MODE_LINEAR
drawOptions.setDrawMode(GSearchControl.DRAW_MODE_TABBED);
drawOptions.setInput(document.getElementById('queryInput'));
searchControl.draw(document.getElementById("searchcontrol"), drawOptions);

inputBlur();
}
var query = null;
document.onkeydown = function(event) { kd(event); };

document.getElementById('queryInput').onfocus = function(event) { inputFocus(event); };
document.getElementById('queryInput').onblur = function(event) { inputBlur(event); };

var searched = false;
function kd(e) {
if (!e) e = event;
if (query == null)
query = document.getElementById('queryInput');
if (e.keyCode == 27) {
query.value = '';
searchControl.clearAllResults();
}
query.focus();
}

function inputFocus() {
var queryInput = document.getElementById('queryInput');
queryInput.style.color = "#555";
if (queryInput.value && queryInput.value == "Введите строку для поиска в Adamov.net.ru") {
queryInput.value = "";
}
}

function inputBlur() {
var queryInput = document.getElementById('queryInput');
queryInput.style.color = "#bbb";
if (!queryInput.value) {
queryInput.value = "Введите строку для поиска в Adamov.net.ru";
}
}

Fully Customized Search Engine: DEMO
Download all in one: GSearchEngine.zip

Simple and Small Captcha to Diminish the Vulnarability of your Website

Simplest and Smallest Captcha

The interactivity is most recent trend in Web Application Development. To attract more visitors to any Web project owner should offer more interactive services like subscription, voting/polls, forums, comments, … One cannot deny that such a interactivity where visitor can enter a data, increases the vulnerability of the web project. Your website may fall a victim of brute-force attack, automated data injection through your forms, SQL injection, … Easiest solution to avoid such problems is to use Captcha. Captcha helps to make sure that only humans perform certain actions with your website, protecting it from spam bots (software). It prevents abuser from injection of vast number records and spamming your system.
You can use one of Google solutions Recaptcha at http://www.google.com/recaptcha. But sometimes you can’t use this solution for some reasons:

1. You may not want your server connect to any resources in Internet (as in my case)
2. You may not want to use software of other party
3. Google Recaptcha don’t offer the level of customization you need
4. …

Because of the similar reasons I’ve decided to develop my own captcha. As a result you can see following code of very simple and small, but at the same time enough robust and flexible Captcha. You can define any length for Captcha string as well as the type of string: numbers, chars or combination of numbers and chars. It can be easily used just by following to the short instructions.

Include this code just before proceeding the data you get from form. It verify the captcha image with value entered to cahtcha input (reg_captch).

<?php
session_start();
$captcha = $_POST["reg_captch"]; 
if (isset($captcha) && isset($_SESSION["captch"])){
	if ($captcha == $_SESSION["captch"]){
		// call appropriate function here or do nothing to continue to run the rest script
	} else {
		exit("Captcha error...");
	}
} else {
	exit("Captcha error...");
}
?>

Add the following HTML code into your Form (before Submit button may be the right place)

<input class=in_text type=text name=reg_captch id=reg_captch>
<img id="captch" src="captcha.php?rnd=&lt;?=rand();?&gt;" width="100" height=">
<!-- I'm using random values here to prevent image caching in browser, it's important for Firefox, Chrome, ... -->
<img style="cursor:pointer" src="images/refresh.png" alt="Refresh" onClick="javascript:document.getElementById('captch').src='captcha.php?' + Math.random();">

Here you can get main code of captcha (captcha.php), as well as zip file with captcha background image (security_background.gif) and text font to display captcha value (feel free to use your own …)

Main Code – captcha.php
Resource Files – resources