“Then God said, let us restart Mongrel” That would be God, the process monitoring tool. The only process monitoring tool that lets you write the meat of the logic inside a God.meddle block. Priceless.
Those who do not remember CORBA … I like the new InfoWorld. For those who don’t remember, a while back InfoWorld decided to let go of its dead-tree edition. Along the way, they gained something else. Something refreshing. Call it a voice. An opinion. Analyzing the news. Whatever, it’s must more valuable than the aditorial content of other trade magazines.
All this a prelude to Paul Krill’s opening sentence in an article announcing the formation of 6 (!) new OASIS working groups:
Can forming six committees result in simplification?
You don’t need to answer that. Mind you, WS-EJB is a formidable engineering effort.
I’m feeling lucky. The good news: Verizon’s “fix” for my RAZR cured a few of the problems, just not all of them, and only introduced a couple new bugs: the voice mail quick dial is dead, and I get to enjoy the new, even more annoying than before, VZ Navigator (the Web, according to Verizon).
The really good news: my house is still intact.
What’s wrong with this picture? Greg Wilson:
While beauty is desirable elsewhere, I think it’s essential in the brave new parallel world the industry is rushing toward. I’d therefore like to set a challenge to readers of this blog: we’ll send a free copy of the book to the 20 people who submit the most elegant, correct, solution to the problem described below.
Fair. Concurrency is hard and elegant solutions deserve a praise. If only …
Contestants will submit classes that extend an abstract base class called
IPlayScrabblethat the contest organizers will provide. These classes will be loaded by aSpeedScrabbleprogram, which will create an instance of each one and pass it the dictionary of words that can be used in the game, and its first seven tiles.
(Answer, after the link)
Enterprise is other people’s needs. Ars Technica, on why the iPhone is purposely not enterprise-ready (thanks, FiatDev):
The people you have to please in the enterprise market are the ones purchasing and supporting the products, not the poor schmucks who actually have to use them.
More about laws of physics and relationships (via Engtech)