[edited 2009.01.15 to add link to DDJ's announcement]
2008 was quite a year, full of landmark events that were certainly historic, if not always welcome.
If I had to pick one technology-related highlight from the past year, it would be this: A notable inflection point in the ongoing shift from traditional media to the web. Given that [...]
Archive for December, 2008
The 2008 Media Inflection: Meet Dr. Web, the New Gorilla
Posted in Opinion & Editorial, Software Development on December 31, 2008 | 34 Comments »
TRS-80 vs. Alpha, and Parallel Optimization
Posted in Concurrency, Software Development on December 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Lest people get the wrong idea, I enjoy reading Jeff Atwood’s blog and agree with much of what he writes so entertainingly and provocatively. So far I’ve only responded when I strongly felt differently about something, which has been a grand total of twice now.
So let me also offer an example of something I wholeheartedly [...]
Rich-GUI SaaS/Web 2.0 Apps Should Not Be Considered Harmful
Posted in Software Development on December 17, 2008 | 19 Comments »
Yesterday, the ever-popular Jeff Atwood (of Coding Horror fame) wrote an article [*] on how not to write Web 2.0 UIs. Unfortunately, it’s exactly backwards: What he identifies as a problem is in fact not only desirable, but necessary.
[*] Aside: Jeff, I know you love pictures, but is that particular gratuitous one really necessary? Yes, [...]
Effective Concurrency: Measuring Parallel Performance — Optimizing a Concurrent Queue
Posted in Concurrency on December 2, 2008 | 5 Comments »
This month’s Effective Concurrency column is special — it turned into a feature-length article. (I don’t know whether it’ll officially be called a “feature” or a “column” in the print issue.) “Measuring Parallel Performance: Optimizing a Concurrent Queue” just went live on DDJ’s site, and will also appear in the print magazine.
From the article:
How would [...]
