Software Engineering Perspectives Articles

Dr. Derek Austin

Updated on August 04, 2025

Null represents an intentional absence of a value, indicating a variable has been declared but has yet to be assigned a value. These are some of the most common methods for checking for null and values loosely equal to null in JavaScript.

Anurag Saxena

Updated on August 01, 2025

Software-defined networking is a networking paradigm that decouples the control and data planes. Our expert explains how it works.

Roman Davydov

Updated on August 01, 2025

AI tools can simplify risk management in your software projects. Here’s how.

Artem Oppermann

Updated on July 31, 2025

Object-relational mapping (ORM) is a programming technique that lets developers use object-oriented code to interact with relational databases, by translating objects to and from database-compatible formats.

Oğuzhan Öztürk

Updated on July 31, 2025

A server message block (SMB) port is a network port that allows devices on the same network to share files and resources. Here’s more on how SMB ports work, how they’ve evolved, whether they’re safe and how to address their common vulnerabilities.

Bisola Olasehinde

Updated on July 31, 2025

There are four common methods that will allow you to add Python variables in a string, including: the comma, the modulus operator, string format and f-strings. Here’s how they work.

Anthony Corbo

Updated on July 31, 2025

C++ is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language that was created by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs around 1980.

Matt Przybyla

Updated on July 30, 2025

Data science focuses on extracting data insights by using mathematics, statistics and programming, while computer science focuses on computer hardware, software and systems. Here’s what you need to know as you enter either field.

Trung Thanh Le

Updated on July 29, 2025

There are several ways to get the last element of a JavaScript array, including length property and square bracket notation, slice() method and pop() method. Here are nine methods to try.

Linda Ngo

Updated on July 29, 2025

A deep dive into logical operators in R. Learn how to change or compare results of comparisons made using relational operators with NOT, OR and AND in R.