An interesting split is becoming obvious in computing today; older people (among them those who were instrumental in empowering computing and the modern web), are increasingly worried about privacy, while
At one point during salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff’s keynote yesterday at the SaaS leader’s Tour De Force stop in Santa Clara, he presented a slide with a signpost of a
rogrammers have little control over the implicit declarations of the four canonical member functions. The compiler will not generate a default constructor for a class that has a user-declared copy-constructor.
From a developer’s perspective, Tech Ed 2008, which attracted over 6000 developers to Orlando, doesn’t offer much that’s completely “new;” however, it does offer a great deal of value for
Warning: this may be considered free advertising—or then again—it might just be considered entertaining and educational. The FiveRuns and RailsEnvy guys created videos for the Rails Conference, which just ended. They showed
I’ve been stewing over this one for over a week now. I can’t believe it’s even necessary to write a post on this topic. What am I even talking about?
Google launched its largest and first paid-admission developer conference, Google I/O, yesterday in San Francisco with a 90-minute keynote session to show off a number of its web development products
The 2008 Semantic Technologies conference wrapped up this week and I walked away with a feeling of (yawn) nothing much going on here. True, the conference did have a record-breaking
Business computing today works largely on a flawed vision of reality. For example, consider an inventory-management application. The system holds a list of items in a database, such that: When