Originally published at O’Reilly The joke goes: “How do you pronounce ‘C#’?”, and the punch line is: “The language formerly known as Java.” Extending this, you can say that .NET is “…the infrastructure formerly known as COM/DCOM.” The .NET infrastructure is significantly different from COM/COM+. However, information about .NET has been out long enough so […]
Month: April 2001
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Stellar Fingerprints
When you look at the night sky from your backyard, do you sometimes think that there is no order to all of those stars out there? If the star isn’t part of a well known constellation, is it nothing more than a point of light in a sea of other points of light? Nothing that […]
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New York, New York
It isn’t Fall without trees changing color, birds flying south for the Winter, and being in New York to speak at the Internet World conference — this time as part of the Webmaster Forum. However, this time, I stayed in New York for a few days. What an adventure. New York Cabbies The cab that […]
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O’Reilly P2P Presentation Proposal
Title: Smoke: An Infrastructure supporting Distributed Peer Services Length: 60 minutes Focus of Talk: Technical/Tutorial Subject Matter: Infrastructure/Distributed Computation Abstract The sale of large scale control systems — such as those used with mass transit systems or to control multi-national pipelines — often requires a marketing and engineering effort that demands the input of several different people, many of […]