How humans succeed while failing to communicate

(Jang F.M. Graat — Smart Information Design, NL)

Humans are remarkably fault-tolerant language processing machines. They usually have entirely different ideas about what was communicated and agreed upon. Still, this high level of misunderstanding does not lead to a complete breakdown of our strongly language-driven societies. How is this possible? And can insight in this strange phenomenon helpt us make better human-machine interfaces?

Framework Factory:
Avoiding chaos with clever decisions

(Samuel Ferreira — Checkmarx, PT)

We live in a time where new trendy frameworks arise frequently. When the mission is to parse and interpret code of several programming languages, dealing with all the behavioral changes a framework introduces to its mother language is not an easy task. This is the story of how Checkmarx dodged chaos and developed an organized and efficient mechanism to handle this challenge.