BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I wanted to point you to a Pixelview interview with AKMA that went online this week. I thought AKMA did a nice job with the interview questions. I hesitated to link to the interview considering that it was conducted by my old friend, Head Lemur, a man who has been less than complimentary about […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Rather than go with a single list of people in a blogroll, I grouped my virtual neighbors according to specific categories. I think this makes the whole process MUCH MORE INTERESTING. <update> I pulled the categories. </update>
A true P2P cloud does not have a core of iron. By this I mean that there can be no static IP or server providing the gateway or facilitating the communication between nodes within a distributed application. You can argue this one with me for years and you won’t convince me otherwise. I know that […]
In my late teens I was going out with a guy who was heavily into hydroplane racing — stock outboard racing to be exact. Brian raced A stock, one of the smaller types with a maximum speed of 50-55 MPH. I became a fairly decent and respected crew member, with Brian as well as other […]
The Don Box discussion about HTTP was a good read with valid points. From a P2P, not a web services perspective, we need to guarantee certain capabilities in P2P services that we take for granted in more traditional client/server environments. This includes the following: Transaction reliability — the old two-phase commit of database technology appears again, […]