The air in the room was still and slightly cool, some might complain
too cool. Sitting near the window, providing light filtered by vertical
shades partially...
1 replies - 990 views - 08/20/08 by driveawedge in News
With all the hype this year about cloud computing and things like
Amazon EC2/S3 as well as Google App Engine and Bigtable, you can feel
it coming. Soon vendors...
0 replies - 2121 views - 08/19/08 by Scott Leberknight in News
Is inheritance really useful or is it a feature that causes more
problems than it solves? Certainly I can't think of a case where I've
been really grateful...
1 replies - 467 views - 08/19/08 by Torbjörn Gannholm in News
Last week I started working on very short proof of concept with a
team that I am currently coaching at a short term insurance company.
We hit a very common...
13 replies - 4581 views - 08/18/08 by Aslam Khan in News
Another very simple pattern builds on the foundation of the Safe-Unsafe Cache pattern.
What is the easiest way to protect data from multi-threaded access...
0 replies - 1496 views - 08/18/08 by sashag in News
Introduction Functional programming concepts aren’t that
hard but sometimes a little abstract. In this post I’ll try to
demystify the concept of currying,...
0 replies - 1287 views - 08/18/08 by bdesmet in News
Fredrik Lundh is almost certainly a benevolent alien in disguise, sent to Earth to help the pitiful human race drag itself up out of the muck.In a recent post,...
4 replies - 3249 views - 08/18/08 by olivstor in News
From my work on SiteVision I've become quite fond of writing rich clients using applets or JavaWebStart, with Swing, and then connect back to the server for...
0 replies - 2427 views - 08/18/08 by Rickard Oberg in News
The bulk of my career has been spent working with and implementing
distributed middleware. In the mid-90's I worked for the parent
company of Open Environment...
3 replies - 19922 views - 08/18/08 by Bill Burke in Articles
Retrospectives, every "agile" team does retrospectives.What are retrospectives anyway?A retrospective is a meeting where the team takes a look and...
1 replies - 4338 views - 08/13/08 by arnonrgo in News
Along with the problem of actually making code thread-safe, there is also the problem of documenting it so other programmers know how to use your code. In...
3 replies - 3259 views - 08/11/08 by Alex Miller in News
Complex Event Processing (CEP) enables enterprises to achieve agile
business processes through intelligent correlation of seemingly
unrelated events. In this...
0 replies - 7767 views - 08/11/08 by Nitin Bharti in Videos
Earlier, we reviewed the excellent book Executing SOA: A Practical Guide for the Service Oriented Architect from IBM Press. I recently had the opportunity to...
0 replies - 2223 views - 08/04/08 by Aslam Khan in Articles
Object-oriented programming languages and techniques provide a powerful means for designing and building applications. These techniques do not always...
7 replies - 8573 views - 07/31/08 by Masoud Kalali in Articles
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