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Tell Me I'm Wrong And I Have Nothing To Worry About
I'm looking for meeting room 401-2a. I'm running 15 minutes late for a 30-45 minute meeting. However, I'm on the fourth floor. I see a room that starts with 401 so I head in that direction. Unfortunately that's not the room I'm looking for, but I go in anyway because I recognize a few faces and perhaps I can get directions. But little did I know, I was walking right into a war of finger-pointing-and-I-told-you-so. - Parallel
The Data Distribution Service for Real-Time Systems: Part 1
DDS is the standard for real-time data distribution - Design
Encryption Pioneers Win Hamming Medal
Martin Hellman, Whitfield Diffie, and Ralph Merkle honored for public key cryptography - Security
JDBC Fast Connection Failover with Oracle RAC
Configuring and testing with Tomcat and the Spring framework - JVM Languages
Making Computers "Understand" Language
Investigation of unified theories of language and cognition
About Open Source Stewardship
It's the end of the year, and, as is my wont, I've been thinking a fair bit about the things I'm thankful for in work and in life. One of those things, that has positively affected my work dramatically over the last 10 years, is the role of community in programming. In particular, the tireless work of talented, unpaid OSS project maintainers. The folks who generalize solutions to benefit all of us, who listen to our complaints, who fix bugs, apply our patches, manage releases, and all the other good stuff that comes with responsible code parenting.
So there I am, feeling all warm and fuzzy and thankful, tweeting my thanks to the good people who make my life easier. And then Jeff Atwood, one of my favorite bloggers, goes and harshes my vibe. On Wednesday Atwood wrote a piece for Coding Horror about the responsibilities of Open Source project parents. Using John Gruber, creator of Markdown, as an example, he basically says that Gruber, after giving birth to a coddled and universally loved baby, has pretty much stunted baby Markdown's growth through poor documentation and not listening to its community, resulting in a a number of messy forks and general confusion about where things might or might not be going. Oh, the drama! Now, I'm not really up on my Markdown project history (frankly I prefer Textile for humane markup, but I'm weird like that), so I can neither refute nor confirm his claims. But it's a well-written article and certainly what his article did do for me was get me thinking further about what makes a great bit of OSS code into a sustainable, thriving OSS community project. - Open SourceModules, Dependency Injection, and Newspeak
I'm about to put the finishing touches on the Heron design for its big 1.0 release, by putting in the module system. I left this for last thinking that it would be trivial. Boy was I wrong!
- DesignComputer Science Revues at Cornell's Upson Hall
Heard about the Dining Philosopher who evaded resource starvation by sending letter bombs to his neighbours? Or copy 722 of Dante's Inferno, which has a Circle of Hell especially for computer science Ph.D.'s whose theses exceed a hundred pages? Or the joke by induction? It goes like this: "if you thought that last joke was funny wait until you hear the next one". I 've just chanced upon a Cornell University technical report containing scripts for computer science revues, years 1977 to 1981. It's TR82-482, Opening Night at Upson Hall (Scripts from Holiday Party Skits), also here as OCR'd text rather than PDF image. One sketch shows us a student, who earlier in the script was regretting that all he knows is Cornell's teaching language PL/C, ordering a language at Corky Cartwright's All-Language Cafeteria:
CONCROFT: Morning.- Design
Corky: Morning.
CONCROFT: Well, what ya got?
Corky: Well, there's Bliss and Algol; Bliss, Snobol and Algol; Bliss and LISP; Bliss, Algol and LISP; Bliss, Algol, Snobol and LISP; LISP, Algol, Snobol and LISP; LISP, Bliss, LISP, LISP, Algol and LISP; LISP, Snobol, LISP, LISP, LISP, Algol, LISP, APL and LISP; LISP, LISP, LISP, Bliss and LISP; LISP, LISP, LISP, LISP, LISP, LISP, Russell, LISP, LISP, LISP and LISP; (pause) Or Algol68, fully implemented with true parallelism, automatic proof checking, complete runtime support, enhanced with message passing and multiprocessor synchronization and error repair, written in LISP.
ELIJAH: Have you got anything without LISP?
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta Period Extended
Next Release Candidate likely available in February 2010 - .NET
Selenium: Cross-browser Website Testing
Automated testing can make a web developer's life a lot easier - Web Development
