Smart move. Probably. If they did it to buy up and squish a potential competitor (or at least kill a cousin that would have offered downward pricing pressure on Oracle’s flagship database product -and prices). Or to acquire some nifty technology. Or deprive a competitor of doing the same. Or just hire a bunch of [...]
Codenames for all things Microsoft, past, present and future. Most extensive list I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen a few of these before). Worth noting. Quick Quiz: How many of these were new to you?
Microsoft’s online toy. Nice, though predictable. Though that’s a good thing – you can do the same yourself, if/when you need to, by carrying forward the principles. Even better, comes with good advice on passwords, both technical and social. Of course, saying isn’t doing. But duh. Can you imagine the grief if they made XP’s [...]
O’reilly article on PyParsing. To be honest, I’ve looked at it a couple of times over the past 2 years and always walked away, though to be fair it was more academic curiosity than actual driving need. Until recently. I understand Lex and Yacc, and have toyed with ANTLR, I can read (and write) (E?)BNF, [...]
Simple example illustrating BASIC, Java, Python and others for teaching someone new to programming. Take a look – most languages fit well at the beginner or skilled ends of the spectrum, but few span it. One of the reasons Python is so sweet – it scales.
This is why I love Python. (Successful!) projects often have a small, core set of people providing a ‘guiding hand’. Often one. Linus. Guido. Anders. One could even argue Gosling. Apache’s core group who built the 1.x web server. Guido’s looking for a Python web framework for some internal use, and proceeds to cover most [...]
This comment covers XHTML2, HTML5 and CSS3 (with links). And this followup enumerates why XHTML2 is flawed and HTML5 will succeed. No personal opinion, but the argument seems sound.
Great. Like the industry needs another 7 year mass psychosis. Follow thru the original link and you get the meat of the subject – BEA, IBM, Oracle, EJB, BPEL, REST and more. Must read. As they say, if you can’t be a good lesson, you’ll have to serve as a horrible warning…
This is quite interesting. “WS-Vertigo” nicely sums up the sad state of current affairs. Also a nice synopsis of current leading edge, competing (emerging/hope-to-be) standards like WS-Notification vs. WS-Eventing. Some juicy bits: BPEL vs. WS-CDL: BPEL is moving slowly at OASIS and facing philosophical difficulties; people think BPEL is wonderful, except those working on it! [...]
Yet more nattering on in the navel-gazing XML/SOAP/WebServices world. At least this is one of the more thoughtful and useful comments.
Borland selling IDEs and moving to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) business.
