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- UDDI: policy enforcer or dead parrot?
- UDDI: policy enforcer or dead parrot?CRAPI and CRUDDIWhen is someone going to wake up to the fact that trying to solve data management and integration problems with programming isn't going to work?We have seen CORBA and DCOM largely fail, now they want to remarket the whole unwieldy, unmanageable and logically...
- Tags: Web services, Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Storage, Databases, Middleware, PAPPL, UDDI, elephant, Oracle Corp., data management
- Discussion threads 2006-01-11
- Making programmers more productive
- Making programmers more productiveOk, okI have called for another round of meetings with PAPPL. Ruby seems to be just a small change from Perl - which PAPPL likes, so maybe just maybe I can get this thing approved. Those Japanese are questionable characters though, when it comes to languages. I...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Development tools, Initial Teaching Alphabet, PAPPL, Ruby
- Discussion threads 2005-11-01
- People who need BPEL aren't the luckiest people...
- People who need BPEL aren't the luckiest people...... or smartestPAPPL was meeting yesterday to look at the Ruby rail stuff, and this was added to the agenda. Since it has not been released yet, PAPPL has no "official" position - but most members are not pleased. JAXL (Just Another XML...
- Tags: Business process automation, Web services, BPEL, PAPPL
- Discussion threads 2005-10-31
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- Thinking about multicore and software
- Thinking about multicore and softwareThanks! NT:)RE: Thinking about multicore and softwarePaul,Provided a link to this blog on http://www.multicoreinfo.com , which is a website for resources related to multicore processors.Independent JobsIn the Enterprise, dual core makes sense for handling anti-virus, encryption, and other annoying security overhead functions. When you start...
- Tags: Network technology, open source, T2, MULTICS & PAPPL, Thinking about multicore, hardware, software
- Discussion threads 2008-06-09
- The tattered history of OOP
- The tattered history of OOPCalling for Mom ..SOAP etc are not themselves messaging based, they're messaging protocols - i.e. message carriers that are not internally implemented using object messaging.OOP!Crieky, I had no idea OOP had been through so much! We're just about to start using Zend Framework PHP, I might...
- Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, Programming languages, Message Passing, object-oriented programming, Java, Smalltalk
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- The obligatory "Victoria Falls" post
- The obligatory "Victoria Falls" postThe 800 lb Gorilla in the roomThere is no doubt that Moore's Law is making some very amazing things happen in CPU land. The T2+ would be even better if Sun could make CPUs that can clock to 4 Ghz (or EVEN 2 Ghz), but for...
- Tags: Network technology, Processors, T2+, T2
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- Salesforce.com's platform ambitions
- Salesforce.com's platform ambitionsI have to be honest.Much in the same way Benioff trash talks about the 'end of software' and what he's going to do to this or that company, I predict the end of Salesforce.com within a decade. It, hopefully, will never attract enough true devs.to go much of...
- Tags: Sales force management, Salesforce.com Inc., platform ambition, programming
- Discussion threads 2007-01-19
- 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
- No Software! But more programming languages ...
- No Software! But more programming languages ...Exactly!Phil, Thank you! I happen to agree with you 100%. The lock-in issue goes further than the simple, and more visible, aspects of a platform. The issue with Apex is not use of the platform itself, it's the overhead involved -...
- Tags: Programming languages, software, Apex, tire, programming language, programming
- Discussion threads 2006-10-26
- Blog on JavaDB sparks debate over thin clients, AJAX, and synch
- Blog on JavaDB sparks debate over thin clients, AJAX, and synchClient-side scripting"Local AJAX" is a SPECIFIC form of client-side scripting. I'm with Orisini on this too - using client-side methods enable web technologies to fly! But I'm also with James - Javascript is pathetic and non-standard across browsers.We NEED to...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Web browsers, blog, JavaScript, Ruby, AJAX, Dojo.Storage, JavaDB, thin client
- Discussion threads 2006-05-02
- WebOS market review
- WebOS market reviewRe: embeddedWell what i do with my time with webOSs is that i create a shortcut to C:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/IEXPLORE.exe then in the Create Shortcut Wizard I put C:/~~IEXPLORE.exe -k http://desktoptwo.com/frames.htm , which puts IE into Kisok Mode, you know tlike the way they do it in museums....
- Tags: Web browsers, Channel management, Fax, Programming languages, WebOS, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2006-04-24
- 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
- Gosling and general purpose languages
- Gosling and general purpose languagesYes, the old debateIt is proprietary according to the Richard Stallman and the free software vigilantes, hence the desire to make a completely unencumbered version of Java through it's CLASSPATH initiative. So, I'm playing my get out of jail free card, and telling you to...
- Tags: Programming languages, .NET, Development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Stallman, specification, Java, Free Software Movement, software, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-01-10
- Ruby on Rails chases simplicity in programming
- Ruby on Rails chases simplicity in programmingI brought this upat the last PAPPL meeting - but the idea was shot down by acclimation. It was agreed that this is but another Thesauraus-job on existing languages and worthy of being shot down by the People Against the Proliferation of Programming Languages.Agree...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Development tools, Databases, Ruby, programming, Microsoft SQL Server Transact-SQL, stored procedure, Ruby on Rails
- Discussion threads 2005-10-31
- 'DVD Jon' joins another maverick
- 'DVD Jon' joins another maverick'DVD Jon' joins another maverickAnother case of how our jobs are being outsource overseas :pThis is great!! More progress on disbanding the music industry.We need to put the control back with the artists. When that happens, there will be more music available at lower prices, and...
- Tags: Digital media, DVD-Jon, maverick, CD, music industry, Jon Johansen
- Discussion threads 2005-10-19
- Resurection Time?
- Resurection Time?Time for some new approaches certainlyI will say right away I am in no position to comment on scientific programming.However, I am growing more and more convinced that the dominance of functional-procedural languages needs to be overthrown. They really haven't met the promises they have made and have severely...
- Tags: Programming languages, Databases, PAPPL member, SQL, DBMS, Sun Microsystems Inc., Java
- Discussion threads 2005-08-25
- Winer's OPML Roadshow rolls into Berkeley
- Winer's OPML Roadshow rolls into BerkeleyThe last strawANOTHER "programming" language? GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!I propose the PAPPL!People against the proliferation of programming languages!
- Tags: OPML Roadshow, Winer, OPML, Berkeley
- Discussion threads 2005-08-22
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