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From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

The nature of data processing is to be long winded, boring, and dominated by acronyms derived from long gone technologies and business practices. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Program, Job, IBM Mainframe, Operating System, Environment, Mainframe, Instruction Set, Memory, Data-processing, Hardware, CPU, Unix, Computer, COBOL, Machine, IBM Corp., System 360, APL, JCL, Flash Memory, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-13

Is software a form of applied mathematics?

Last week's licensing discussions sprouted an interesting, if off topic, thread on a number of computer language related issues. One of the issues raised strikes me as fairly fundamental: is software a form of applied mathematics?Here's how occasional contributor b3timmons stated one side of this argument in response to...

Tags: Development

Blog posts 2007-06-04

Guy Steele's new programming language

Guy Steele's new programming languageEver heard of APL?Great for formulas.You can write in ASCIIAccording to the manual you can use ASCII keywords for all the special symbols. So if you were just using a text editor you would write it kind of like a conventional program. But if you used...

Tags: Keyboards, keyboard, ASCII, APL, Fortress, programming, programming language, Guy Steele

Discussion threads 2007-01-17

APL, COBOL,

APL, COBOL,GOTO "hell"APL is another example of too much rope. Something that is infinitely configurable is infinitely breakable! The ability to write an entire program on one line makes for some VERY hard to read programs. And I DO wonder about the security implications - would code audits become unmanageable?...

Tags: Programming languages, Development tools, APL, programming language, programming, COBOL, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-04-07

APL, COBOL, & Dijkstra

One of the issues that arose in the talkbacks to my blog on the Second IT Commandment (Thou Shalt Honor and Empower thy Unix Sysadmins) came from a throwaway comment, on my part, about the difficulty of teaching a COBOL programmer to use APL. That drew a response from Jorwell...

Tags: APL

Blog posts 2006-04-07

Resurrection Time?

Sun has a large group led by Guy Steele working on a language called "Fortress" -something they describe as "Java for scientists, Java for the programmers of a peta-scale supercomputer." Java started out as a hardware abstraction layer for set top TV boxes aimed at using the TV to provide...

Tags: Java, APL

Blog posts 2005-08-25

APL, Parallelism, 44.8 < 3.6

APL, Parallelism, 44.8 < 3.6well..I think the massive increase in parallelism in the processors would be best utilized if a user/the system would dedicate certain cpus to certain task/process/service/threads. In an unix environment dedicating one processor to run Apache, another to handle mysql, i know it could get messy...

Tags: Development tools, Processors, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Sun Solaris 10, APL, compiler, processor, Parallelism, CPU, software, Unix

Discussion threads 2005-08-10

APL and parallelism

Quite a number of otherwise respectable people seem to be believe that Sun's throughput computing initiative will never produce a CPU appropriate to workstation or laptop uses. Their basic argument is that the first generation Niagara CPUs are weak on floating point and that all of them trade off relatively...

Tags: APL

Blog posts 2005-08-10

Additional Resources

Amazon Price Lookup 2.2.9 (Windows)

The Amazon Price Lookup APL application was designed for the purpose of quickly and easily determining the used price of any book on Amazon.com's marketplace system. It has since grown to include the ability to check that price against a wholesale list and sell books on Amazon. Version 2.2.9 fixes...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-08-04

CDA to MP3 Converter 2.6.819 (Windows)

CDA to MP3 Converter converts CDA to MP3 quickly. The software is an ALL IN ONE audio converter that converts more than 90 audio and video formats to MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV, AAC, M4A, M4B, and AMR. If your CD is an audiobook, you can convert it into M4B audiobooks...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Communications Decency Act, MP3, Hoo Technologies, Digital Music, Regulations, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Government, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-07-07

Hoo MIDI to MP3 Converter 2.4.775 (Windows)

MIDI to MP3 Converter converts MIDI to MP3. It is an all-in-one audio converter that supports more than 90 audio and video files. The software is fully compatible with Vista. You can change encoding parameters of target files such as sample frequency, bit rate, channels, and quality. So it is...

Tags: Software, MIDI, Microsoft Windows, MP3, Hoo Technologies, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-07-06

Johns Hopkins University APL Lowers Total Cost of Ownership With Innovative Support

Johns Hopkins University APL wanted to enable APL's core team of eight systems administrators to efficiently support more than 80 developers and 5,000 end-users of Oracle technology - all of whom rely on Oracle-based systems for their research and administrative work. The challenge was to ensure high availability and performance...

Tags: Oracle Corp., TCO, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins University APL, Roi/Tco, Performance Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Case studies 2009-03-01

Advancing the prosthetic aesthetic

Experimental prosthetic arms in labs across the country will soon pave the way for commercial versions to antiquate the last major upgrade that took place almost a hundred years ago. That was the cable-operated prosthetic hook (for above-the-elbow amputees). Thanks to the Defense Advanced Research Projects...

Tags: Patient, DARPA, Chicago, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-02-20

The IT theme for 2009: simplify

The IT theme for 2009: simplifyWhat's your outlook for the cloud Murph?With the dismal economic prospects, does not the cloud factor in as a means of controlling cost and simplifying? Yes?I am a registered AWS provider.Thanks Murph.Dietrich T. Schmitz[url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/blog/]Linux IT Consultant[/url]Mildly Surprisedhow much I relate to this post. e.g.:"and prayed...

Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), Storage, UNIX, Operating systems, SAN, Sun Solaris, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-01-10

Johns Hopkins University APL Streamlines IT Management and Reduces Provisioning Time by 97%

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory APL wanted to reduce time and effort associated with applying quarterly Critical Patch Updates CPU, which have to be applied within a month of their release and enable the organization to more efficiently provision new servers and software across various tiers - Oracle...

Tags: IT Administration, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Provisioning, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins University APL, Linux, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Data Management

Case studies 2009-01-01

Relearning something about perl

Relearning something about perlNot a big Perl fan but...I'm not a big Perl fan, but languages are always worth learning, if only to open your mind to interesting approaches.There does seem the a kind of feature wars going on with languages at the moment, where once quite simple and focused...

Tags: Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, Perl

Discussion threads 2008-12-23

ACCESS extends its Linux platform family

ACCESS, the Japanese company that powers a wide range of phones around the globe, announced this week that it is extending its Linux platform, allowing it take data services previously available only on advanced phones and make them available on entry-level devices. At a technology trade show in Tokyo this...

Tags: Phone, Microsoft Access, Linux, Microsoft Office, Databases, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Office Suites, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-21

What MobileMe Could Use ...

... is live tech support. If you have a problem -- like say, the entries you make on your iCal on your desktop Mac don't sync with MobileMe but the entries from a PC laptop do -- you can't just call 1-800-APL-CARE (1-800-275-2273) and get any...

Tags: Desktops, E-mail, Hardware, Online Communications, Response, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-16

BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeReading this gives me the shakes......by bringing back my days at the Chubb Institute in 1991, learning BASIC, OS JCL & COBOL. MANY hours of flow charting...WITH PENCIL & PAPER...and many more hours at a terminal trying to get what I...

Tags: Mainframes, Programming languages, Servers, data-processing, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, COBOL, mainframe, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-06

Technology and the costs of change

Technology and the costs of changeMissing linkOne link which might solidify your thinking is to consider not the cost or the size of the change ... but its impact on customers. It is surely this link which one tries to firm up in writing a business case. It is the...

Tags: Mainframes, Operating systems, Microsoft Office, Unix, mainframe

Discussion threads 2008-05-19