ometimes runtime performance requirements determine which programming language I use. For flat out runtime performance, I have always found that natively compiled Common Lisp or C++ really do the trick.
t was the final night of the SD West conference in Santa Clara, CA, as attendees wandered the hotel, seeking the locations of the different BOF (bird of a feather)
t’s time again to open up your developer’s toolbox and make room for the new must-have tool, virtual machines. As a software consultant, I find myself traveling from customer to
ervice Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an increasingly common buzzword in today’s industry. The benefits of a Web services-oriented framework are well appreciated, but not always well-understood. Enterprises planning to convert
o far, you and I have journeyed through the realm of class diagrams. Classes are a good start for understanding how an application is hooked together, and while they describe
lthough AOP and MDA were developed from very different viewpoints: programming vs. modeling; weaving many inputs into one output vs. creating many outputs from one input, there is a great
hen Gerald Weinberg began working in the information technology industry, he wasn’t hired as a software developer or a programmer?not because he wasn’t qualified for these positions, but because they
he concept of time travel has been a staple of science fiction since the entertainment genre was invented. Whether it’s H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine,” Doc Brown’s DeLorean in “Back
n Part 2 we looked at associations, which are nothing more than references, but they can be directional and represent multiplicity. If we were restricted to our ability to generate