Google vs. Microsoft – who’s the evil empire now?
This blog article by Dare Obasanjo purports to give an insider’s view of how Microsoft might be a more desirable
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Java’s Da Vinci Machine … and other platforms
After having read about the “Da Vinci Machine”, http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/31/davinci-machine_1.html http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/ it struck me that Sun/the Java people have finally seen
Read moreFPGA supercomputing – an alternative paradigm
FPGAs or Field Programmable Gate Arrays are essentially programmable/reconfigurable hardware. A particular CPU architecture can be thought of as hardcoded
Read more“RESTful Web Services”
Finally, we have a book that vindicates the desirability of a REST interface over AJAX and SOAP. http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/01/a_year_in_oreilly_books.html, I remember
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David Mertz, in this Charming Python column, makes multimethods sound hopelessly complicated like he always manages to do in his
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