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Are we to have two Internets?

Are we to have two Internets?And what machine were you testing?"Apache dies when hit with about seven to ten thousand user floods. Yaws just kept on going on up to 85,000 simultaneous users."What kind of setup did you test this on?Great responseI don't agree with all your premises but I...

Tags: Web browsers, PRODUCTIVITY, NETWORKING, Intranet, Yaws, Microsoft IIS Server, Extranet, Erlang, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Internet, Microsoft Corp., tool, Web

Discussion threads 2008-09-01

C to be the next browser scripting language... wait, what?

C to be the next browser scripting language... wait, what?C doesn't have memory corruption flawsC provides access to memory and leaves it as an exercise for the developer to program appropriately.Welcome back, pointer madness and memory leak.We web developers love to trade productivity, garbage collection and code maintainability /...

Tags: C/C++, Programming languages, C, browser scripting language, scripting language, Web browser

Discussion threads 2008-07-07

Microsoft's Mundie: New programming models needed

Microsoft's Mundie: New programming models neededI don't get it[i]Once an application is written in an existing language, you’ve taken away the parallelism. [/i]Haven't M$ heard of threading support yet?I'm wondering if it's a typo or it is for real.RE: Microsoft's Mundie: New programming models neededMigrating a programmer from Visual Basic...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, .NET, Programming languages, Erlang, Microsoft Corp., New programming model, Mundie, programming model

Discussion threads 2008-04-09

Additional Resources

Lokad Call Center Calculator (msi)

Don't waste time or money on your call center schedules. Too much staff and expenses get out of control. To few staff and your customers get mad because of the long waiting queues. Start optimizing staff levels. Import data from call center applications or from Excel. Easy 1-click staff optimization...

Tags: Call-center, Lokad, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2008-09-03

My Awesome IT Job: Chief architect, The Hive

Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here's a new Friday feature at The IT Grind showcasing IT professionals that love their work....

Tags: Information Technology, Chief Architect, Hobby, Home Entertainment, Scripting Languages, Productivity, Strategy, Programming Languages, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Management, Software Development, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-07-11

Oddball thinking about OOP

Oddball thinking about OOPVery interesting Murph ...... but a tad tricky to know if I followed your drift or not.OOP in my mind is a programmers management tool/way/approach/methodology. I'd find it hard not to write OO now. In the background Erlang is proving an interesting curve, but it's a hobby...

Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, OOP principle, object-oriented programming

Discussion threads 2008-06-03

The tattered history of OOP

This is a guest blog by frequent contributor Mark Miller - a followup on our earlier discussions of the effectiveness and value of the object oriented programming idea. OOP has been a mixed bag, but I say this only because...

Tags: Message, Software, Object-oriented Programming, Smalltalk, Idea, Data, Object-oriented, Unix, Object, Alan Kay, Way Object-orientation, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Will Mesh take the Web from open source?

Will Mesh take the Web from open source?Just My takeFrom what I understand, Mesh is going to be a good thing. These days, we have so many devices that it will be good to be able to access all of them from one centralized location or one main computer. For...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., open source, Web

Discussion threads 2008-04-24

Is OOP a branch to nowhere?

Is OOP a branch to nowhere?I agreeAnd furthermore, it is not self-evident that OOP is inherently more efficient than procedural programming.Your decomposition implies that even the earliest OO concepts existed only as transitional elements in large complex procedural workspace.At a machine-language level OO creates massive stack manipulations for even the...

Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, object-oriented programming

Discussion threads 2008-04-20

Frustrations with development languages

Last week's discussions of Java suggested to me that most of the response people have to programming language choices is driven first by the lack of real choices and secondly by issues of scale and perception. Setting aside embedded uses of Java, I get the clear impression...

Tags: Business Application, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-04-14

Frustrations with development languages

Frustrations with development languagesWhat's left?It seems that you don't like any programming language....Seriously the "failure" of Java EE you refer to isn't necessarily a failure of Java, it is likely a failure of software management by the IT department concerned. Many companies tend towards highly complex solutions and "smart" ways...

Tags: Programming languages, Development tools, Scripting languages, Ada, Java, programming

Discussion threads 2008-04-14

Defending Java against Paul Murphy

Defending Java against Paul MurphyA musician's mindObviously no musician created it. But did he or she hang around a radio station before throwing the logic in there?Sorry Mr. Carroll...... but I'll remind you that "What moved me to respond ... was what I consider to be an inaccurate portrayal...

Tags: Programming languages, C/C++, SECURITY, Paul Murphy, Java, flaw, C, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-08

Simple DirectMedia Layer (zip)

Simple DirectMedia Layer was designed to be a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the award winning Linux port of "Civilization:...

Tags: Multimedia, SDL, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS, Linux, Programming Languages, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Scripting Languages, C#, C/C++, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2008-01-24

Dirk Meyer, the man to watch at AMD

Dirk Meyer, the man to watch at AMDRuiz is fine, they need product developement disciplineThe article brings up god points about Ruiz. He is a business man and had done well for AMD. What AMD needs is product development leadership that enforces discipline. Dirk may be the guy to do...

Tags: Leadership, Strategy, Processors, repercussion, industry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Ruiz, Meyer

Discussion threads 2008-01-03

"Back that truck up"

"Back that truck up"Who says?[i]A big part of the dominant wintel mythology, for example, is based on three beliefs, all of them wrong[/i]And here I thought that the big part of the dominant wintel mythology was that WinTel offered consumers the most flexibility at the lowest price. Silly me!Successful dominant...

Tags: Strategy, Digital music, Digital media, Wintel, industry

Discussion threads 2007-12-21

"Back that truck up"

The quotation is from Tim Taylor, star of TV's long defunct sitcom: Glimpses of Heidi, but suits my purpose here, which is to discuss our tendency to remember things in terms of what's important to us rather in terms of what really happened. A big...

Tags: Wintel, Idea, Microprocessor, IBM Corp., Quotation, Revisionism, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Components, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-12-21

Erlang Calculator (zip)

Erlang Calculator is a tabbed calculator that includes Erlang B, Extended Erlang B and Erlang C. Erlang B is a formula for blocking no retrial sources. Extended Erlang B is a formula for blocking retrial sources. Erlang C is delay formula for queueing infinite sources. So now you can finally...

Tags: Formula, Erlang Calculator, Extended Erlang B, C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2007-12-19

Ushering in a multicore future

Ushering in a multicore futureThe Future of ComputingIf Java doesn’t respond with its own parallel computing libraries, it will only help accelerate the adoption of .Net. Let’s see what the Java community does. I get the impression that many in the Java community don’t understand that when frameworks abstract away...

Tags: Development tools, Desktops, multicore future, desktop, programming, programming problem, Java, Java Community, developer, multi-core, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-12-03

F# becomes a first-class citizen

F# becomes a first-class citizenWhat about mono? NTNTShut up, fool.ntOn the other handAll the # languages are better than VB.Man, you really are WAY BEHIND.Can you say mono? How about Moonlght?another proprietary hook from M$OSS won't use any of the languages ending in #.They are wortless to begin with.F#!...

Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, Microsoft development tools, .NET, Programming languages, Development tools, Middleware, Mathmatica, Mono, functional language, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-10-23

Could you say 'Unix' in Ada?

Could you say 'Unix' in Ada?Leaky AbstractionsWhat you are argueing is that Unix is full of leaky abstractions instead of sound design principles, so a largely unsafe systems programming language should be used to write application software.I think you are very wrong.Unix promotes enforced isolation of components (strong process isolation,...

Tags: Programming languages, C/C++, Operating systems, Ada, Unix, C

Discussion threads 2007-06-06