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Emerging Technologies Conf

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave mentioned today that he’ll be giving a presentation at the Emerging Technologies Conference. My conference proposal was rejected, which was disappointing — particularly since the session I gave at the first P2P conference was successful. Such is life. So if you’re going to the conference you can see Dave, but you’ll miss […]

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P2P for Radio

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When I return from vacation land, I’m going to build a true P2P cloud for Radio. I’ve been wanting to test some functionality and needed a good user-interface vehicle. Looks like Radio is a good fit. I need a golden gateway, but I imagine Userland would provide the server space […]

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Scripting vs Compiled languages

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Oh this from DotNetCentric was excellent. There is no war between scripting and compiled languages — both are here to stay. What we need to do is look at how we can get the two to interoperate. Is WSDL the way? Maybe. And maybe we need to look at other approaches, […]

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Weakly typed vs strongly typed

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I read the Don Box article on WSDL. Not one of his better articles. Weakly typed versus strongly typed — that is going to be the question this year isn’t it. Don’s best statement in the article was: However, until the entire world converts to Perl, something needs to be done to enable […]

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Google Programming Contest

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve had a chance to look at the source and the data files for the Google Programming contest. In the last several years, I’ve spent so much of my time tweaking sites for business use — better use of the database, better security, better architectural design, better use of Internet technologies, […]