CODE REFACTORING

In the glorious world of applications and software development relative to the DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE, most software is only as good as it's ability to keep up with the times, or in other words, it's expansion and evolutionary processes of improved functioning.

And if you're wondering how best to accomplish such an aim... OMNITEKK believes applying CODE REFACTORING principles is the sure way to go.

A development project's ability to be transformed into a higher efficiency or expandable solution is the quintessential pearl of code reusability, as use cases and user requirements take shape in the evolutionary design process.

Likewise, in improving our application project's efficiency and expansion capabilities, whether it be in aim of user interface improvements, connectivity enhancements, or simply a measure of ease of use or some other task of increased efficiency, we could never go wrong in applying those tried and true principles adopted by all the greats, in the world of software design, who have standardized the processes of code improvements.

So here's a few pointers on best practices for improving your development projects.

APPLY USE CASE SCENERIOS

It's always a good idea to create use case scenerios which signify your projects usage goals for both end user and designer or administrator data input and extraction tasks.

Employing use cases as your project requirements change, allows for concise application of your design objectives to commence in expansion of your projects, to seamlessly integrate with those modules that might already be there.

USE MODULAR CONSTRUCTION

Code should always be constructed in modular fashion, such that all major functionality, is provisioned in such a way that refactoring or code improvement efforts serve easier to engage in and manage, by breaking down your project scope into its lesser chunks of functionality.

This is especially pertinent if a specific task or function is used more than a few times.

DOCUMENTATION IS YOUR FRIEND

All code segments should be well documented, especially If you've written fairly large projects or if it'll be months long intermissions between commencing your workload, as picking up where you left off can be a challenge. 

Chances are you won't even recognize most of what you've written, much less every nook and cranny relative to it's functionality, if you've neglected to work on your projects for months at a time.

So it's always a good idea to document code and keep concisely defined project attributes relative to code functionality...such as variable names and uses, any special definitions as well as any and all module functionality or methods use or purpose.

OMNITEKK recommends you do get used to documenting and the art of documenting well.

MAINTAIN REVISION HISTORY

We've all dealt with the delightful bug hunting journey in delving into our most pressing software projects, haven't we...

As such, it is critical that we can seamlessly revert any upgrades or project changes commenced, in the event that something goes awry. So be sure subversion ALL revisions. 

Have a look at our article on SUBVERSIONING APPLICATIONS which can be found here.

THINK SIMPLICITY

When it comes to code reuse and refactoring or enhancements, less complexity in design might prove best.

Simplicity in design ensures that your projects aren't overly complicated. This is especially critical if the application or project is a group effort.

As we learn to design elegant, yet simple application solutions, it allows the refactoring process to commence with ease and efficacy.

And after all, who doesn't just love development projects that are simple in understanding and programming style, even if complex in functionality...

And that's it folks, OMNITEKK'S sure fire way to effectively apply code refactoring principles to your projects, both small and large alike.

So until our next IT adventure my friends, OMNITEKK says Be well.

THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS

As we bear witness to what some are hailing as the 4th industrial revolution, OMNITEKK proclaiming rightly so, the noteworthy advances being actualized within the technological arena are vastly shaping the world as we know it.

With personal aim in both ease of use and practicality of application in our daily tasks, the world of technology has allowed for the manifestation of some of our greatest achievements yet.

Likewise, without the specialized contributions of those well noted programmers, developers, staticians and mathematicians alike, we mightn’t have ever made the strides we have in such fields as 3D  Printing, Virtualization, Manufacturing and Industrialization, Automation, Astronomy and Astro-Theology, Agriculture, Aviation, Weapons and Defense, Communications, Transportation, and the list goes on and on.

And it is without a doubt the collection of value to be found in the prized contributions of our programmer communities in developing the sophisticated algorithmic solutions used in the technologies of new, that have allowed products like the IBM Watson, Utility Robots or even the dynamic duo of collaborative effort between human and robot being witnessed within Cobot productivity tasks, amongst all others, to even exist. 

And although we are witnessing the brilliance of today’s innovators in tech, there are certainly a few questions to be answered relative to how such advances will ultimately affect our human evolution...5 years...20 years or even a century from now, and how best we can prepare for such an affect now. 

For just as the industriousness of old has been widely known to strengthen human productivity efforts, the  strides made in such fields as industrial  manufacturing, for instance, also gave way to higher CO2 emissions, as well as an overabundance of waste and waste materials, causing imperceptible eco-systemic pollution and subsequently both an adverse effect within human mortality rates along with an overall imbalance within nature's cycle of functioning.

As such, many argue that as advances in technology increase, the obsoletion of human contributions, namely within manual labor fields, will decrease significantly, ultimately making those labor practices repurposed through the use of technology, ineffective in the aim of big business and the enterprise, phasing out all those who haven't the talents necessary to successfully apply the required adroits to supply the evolution of workforce demand.

Let us take a deep dive in considering both the effectual benefits and possible anomalies surrounding such advances, namely collaboration and integration versus comprehensive automated solutions in fostering human productivity efforts and ease shall we.

The Primary Areas Of Recognized Benefit

Productivity Enhancing 

The formation, creation and human productivity enhancements realized from advances in technology have allowed us to work smarter, not harder.

With some of the most effective discoveries, and thus, significant contributions to the aforementioned fields, advances in automation and technology have allowed our human family to realize successes unfathomable in both our personal and professional productivity tasks.

Technology have allowed us to better understand the world around us, through land air and sea exploration.

Through the use of technology, we have acquired access to knowledge and information, as well as the keen ability to draw inferences, correlations and connections never to be done before, as the brilliance of our most talented, have devised the means to centralize pertinent findings, research and innovations, so as to help us progress in our human understanding and solutionary application to some of our greatest quandaries.

Human Risk Subversive 

The use of technological apperatus, such as robots and various other technical devices have allowed man to accomplish the once deemed impossible by successfully thwarting risk factors by substituting machinery where human anomaly once proved evident.

Technology has all allowed for significant advances in science to persist in the face of well known hazzard by utilizing the efficiency of mechanics in achieving scientific breakthroughs in both health data metrics and analytics, along with advanced methods of enhancing mortality, and thus, human longevity.

Technological Affect 

Diminishes Human Functioning

While the uses of technology and artificial intelligence means have certainly allowed for significant strides in both human innovation and productivity, it has been pontificated that over reliance on automation has made man lazy. It becomes the overuse and subsequently, the imbalance in using human mechanics to replace those human autonomous tasks necessary to maintain our own human abilities and efficiency attributes, that pose significant risk. 

For instance, while it is possible to store information, now in the yottabytes for later retrieval, heavily relying on electronics to do miniscule repetive tasks is known to have adverse affect on our own  inherent data storage and retrieval efficiency.

To prevent such anomaly, it is always best to utilize our own process of derivation where necessary to maintain efficiency in functioning.

Diminishes Manual Labor Efforts

All those from the generation x era who are either entering the workforce or in process of making contributions therein, might face significant learning curves, as the age with which the workforce demand was best suited for their talents, are vastly becoming obsolete, making manual labor talents within certain fields fairly difficult to obtain employability within.

The new age workmanship and worker necessity is in fields that demand an enhanced aptitude for technological savant in place of routine manual labor talent, making it far more difficult for older generations, who typically have less practical knowledge in STEM fields to attain the levels of success of the millennials who do.

So to bring us full circle, on the question of whether collaboration and integration in the world of AI should be implemented moreso than comprehensive automated solutions, OMNITEKK affirmatively votes for the collaboration of human automation hybrids as opposed to extensive uses of automations in a given field. 

It not only prevents the effectual phasing out of human manual contributions to the workforce, but it allows us to use the technology in ways that enhance the benefits of both worlds...the culmination of efficiency and prowess within the technological arena and also the tangible  human side of accomplishing both our personal and professional productivity aim.

In short... OMNITEKK supports the implemention of COBOTS that work alongside human productivity efforts within the workforce as we advance by leaps and bounds in STEM fields. 

And until our next IT adventure friends... OMNITEKK says Be Well.

The Digital Revolution

Each year, tons and tons of information is uploaded, downloaded, and analyzed from the WORLD WIDE WEB.

Industries ranging from SOCIAL SCIENCES and HEALTHCARE, AUTOMATA, BANKING and even TECHNOLOGY are benefiting from Digital Information, as it serves to help progress not only our species as a whole, with quantum leaps being made in medical fields as well as in the technological advances and automations that help make life easier for us all, but also in the progression of the ways such information is processed, and affirmatively compounded to procure the necessary associations that further along our understanding of data trends and sequences.

In our aim to further aquaint our OMNITEKK rock stars to the DIGITAL REVOLUTION being witnessed by way of the progressions, both small and large, in digitization, as the information age evolves, we invite you all to take a walk with us down BIG DATA LANE.

It is our hope that the following video illuminates your understanding to the realm of the ever-progressing world of DATA and DATA ANALYTICS.

The Digital Revolution Is Being Televised...

Enjoy...

...And until our next IT Adventure...OMNITEKK says Be Well.

Virtualization

The computer world, and all software and hardware applications as we know them, help to make those repetitive tasks and processes we engage in on a daily basis a breeze.

Likewise, automation helps us subvert the mundane, by allowing for flash speed processing of files and other automated tasks that allow our dear human family to accomplish workflows with greater ease and efficacy.

It then becomes the human-machine interaction that makes way for not only efficient automations, but likewise those encompassing verges of entertainments that help us take the edge off of the stress involved in our everyday lives.

What I'm speaking of folks is the world of  virtualization and virtual reality.

We come to know two distinct concepts as they relate to the virtual world...namely

1)  Efficiency in computer organizational storage     
     and programming methods.

2)  Video Simulation and Game Programming.

Let's take a deep dive into each if these concepts shall we...

EFFICACY IN COMPUTER ORGANIZATION

I've said it once and I'll say it again...
...humans are lazy.

As such, it is always our aim to find efficient means of working in ways that help us subvert repetitive recursiveness in our designations, whether personal or work related.

The process of using virtualization to allow for simple methods that help both the programmer and applications developer, the data processor and everyday casual user alike, benefit from utilizing intangible methods within tangible frameworks helps improve productivity workflows and also makes way for utilizing PC components in the most efficient way.

For this user group, virtualization can be used to

- Relic tangible aspects of both data storage and program environment principles.

For instance, a developer may use a virtual ecology within a machine to repurpose it with aim to accomplish specific tasks.

These tasks can include fault testing, application and program synthesis, hardware and software virtualization, and likewise, those methods of evoking synthetic processes to accomplish remedial or critical tasks.

- Allocate Resources

Virtualization allows for better computer architectural efficacy in dealing with obscuring or obfuscating specific aspects of an application.

For instance, virtualization can be used to ambiguate computer architecture and addressing modes, synthetic networks, resource allocation and network sharing frameworks.

Virtualization helps programmers designate, extract, and utilize resources from base sources to be consumed by program processes through a series of video frames and character Riggs within ecosystemic aspects within the virtual world, acting as predictors or predictive sages of outcomes.

GAME PROGRAMMING

Now here's where things can get a bit interesting.

In the virtual world of video game synthesis and game programming, the use of combinatorics to account for every possible aspect of a specific possibility in both outcome and responsiveness within a simulation, allow virtual world creators to simulate, predict and synthesize character behavior and affirmative or distinctive consequential outcomes within the game environment.

Just like in all other game play, character behavioral interactions  and all decision possibilities within the game have been accounted for by a series of frames and riggs that  support or deter unwanted or unwarranted characterizations or moves.

For all those programmers who manufacture and construct simulations and virtual artificial worlds, it becomes the controlled environment within the game that allows for the predictability in both game inputs and subsequently, game outputs.

Further yet, as the technology advances, it also becomes the use of virtualization that acts as a remarkable source of cost effective methods to enhance both hardware and software functionality at a fraction of the cost compared to adding or manufacturing hardware components for optimized functionality.

So the next time you frown on virtual worlds, and virtualization, do consider this...

...It is virtualization that has manufactured Siri, Cortana, and Miles, essentially helping us to increase productivity and efficiency in our data workflow tasks.

It is also virtualization that brings efficiency into the consumer market by allowing the maximization of hardware to be used to their maximum potential by utilizing efficient software programs.

Further still, it is virtualization that allows for some of the best sports gaming and combinatorics matrices to be manufactured, helping to stimulate us in ways that make life all the more interesting.

We see this with airplane flight simulations, sports video games, like boxing, basketball and football - and even in character creation and virtual worlds, such as the Sims that allow users the authority to frame and rig characterizations.

And that's it folks....

...Welcome to OMNITEKK'S rendition of the never ending, ever improving world of virtualization.

And until our next IT adventure friends... Omnitekk says Be Well.