Alex Miller blogs about a few things to come Java 7, such as the former draft on JSR-292 invokedynamic, the web service’s connector for JMX — JSR-262 — and a few more interrelated notes on NIO2. Related Posts:Why The Existent Estate Market May Swing about Next Year
May 30, 2008
May 29, 2008
The Ala Carting of Video on the Net – Will it lead to disaster ?
Craig Moffett of Bernstein Research spelt an astonishing report gentled And Straight off for the News…The Emperor Has No Clothes”. If you can catch a copy, interpret it. Starting with the unsatisfying but waited news that journalism is no longer a service consumers want to pay for, he travels on to the problems presenting Internet [...]
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Approaching Gigs
In July I will be paying a keynote address at GUADEC , the one-year GNOME conference, being maintained this year in Istanbul. In September I will be addressing once more at the Business of Software conference, being kept this year in Boston. And lastly, for something completely unlike, don’t omit the Jam Session at Tech-Ed [...]
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Working large business problems in our minuscule toolbox application. A use case for Project Distributor.
Project Distributor: Introduction to our staggered web service modelSo Darren and I have assigned in about a month at present on the Project Distributor website. We are begining to progress to that decisive point where the site is pretty coolheaded, we have plenty of users, we are thinking of operating out of the permissible bandwidth [...]
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Beating Google ?
Is there anything more fun than riding about, developing your hair, pledging a Bud while listening to Jethro Tull and ruminating how to exchange the balance of power in the search world and unseat Google ?Best search ? Too immanent. Better monetization ? After the fact. Best User Interface ? Will we cognise it when [...]
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May 28, 2008
Degrees of optimism in projects
Whenever I head a project, I e’er essay to plan in such a way that arranges me and my team up for success. I do this in many ways, starting with a dear methodology, doing exhaustive analysis, and allowing for a level of risk/certainty on with any estimates I allow for. Part of this strategy takes insuring [...]
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May 2, 2008
Introducing Microsoft Tagspace
Also see: Single source code base for Silverlight and WPF solutions Also see: Video games Also see: JSR-294 Superpackages Tagspace * is a social bookmarking service for software professionals** that encourages sound sleep and sweet dreams by enabling you to be better informed, better connected, and more productive. The more you use Tagspace, the more you’ll wonder [...]
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March 26, 2008
AppDomains (“application domains”)
Also see: Applied Metamodelling: A Foundation for Language Driven Development An AppDomain is a light-weight process. Well, if you actually measure the costs associated with an AppDomain – especially the first one you create, which has some additional costs that are amortized over all subsequent ones – then “light-weight” deserves some explanation: A Win32 [...]
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March 25, 2008
VPC 2007 Dual Monitor support
Also see: Chicago geek dinner 11/22 I have been trying to find a way to allow you to run Virtual PC 2007 with multiple monitors. Natively VPC 2007 doesnt support more than 1 monitor, however you can “trick” it by using various techniques that expand the desktop area into a larger virtual desktop. I tried using the [...]
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March 24, 2008
Data Types a la Carte
Also see: There can be only one… with data Also see: UI design Also see: A quick update on me. Data Types a la Carte. Wouter Swierstra. This paper describes a technique for assembling both data types and functions from isolated individual components. We also explore how the same technology can be used to combine [...]
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