everal years ago, Bill Watterson wrote a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip where Calvin asked: “How do they know the load limit on bridges, Dad?” and his father answers: “They
hen was the last time your boss dropped in to ask you for an update about your current project? For most people, it might happen once a week, but for
ast month, Computer Research Associates released their annual Taulbee Survey (of North America’s computer science programs. According to their numbers, enrollment declined nearly 20 percent between 2002 and 2003. Predictably,
ow many times have you left your computer without locking it down? Sure, some people have a screensaver that locks the computer automatically after some elapsed period; most people set
n the future described by William Gibson’s cyberpunk novels, we will interface with computers through a neural connection that will allow us to surf through a vast realm of interconnected
hile service-oriented architecture (SOA) seems to be on everybody’s lips these days, some vendors and analysts are proposing an alternative approach known as event-driven architecture (EDA). Some camps even go
icrosoft’s impending release of the new capability to write stored procedures in SQL Server is a big advance and technologically admirable, but it raises serious questions about whether such a
he EJB 3.0 expert group seems to have handed JBoss the EJB application server market on a silver platter. Several weeks ago at TheServerSide Java Symposium in Las Vegas the
o matter what Microsoft representatives said this week at its Tech·Ed conference in San Diego, the message that the company is delivering to the roughly 11,000 IT administrators and developers