A brief look at the history of programming languages, highlighting the convergence of OO and functional paradigms over time.
Analysis of Twitter's frontend code, noting use of multiple JavaScript libraries and asset hosting strategies for high-traffic sites.
An overview of Ohloh, an open-source community site that aggregates project data, tracks developer contributions, and analyzes licensing from source code.
Developer discusses rewriting a Java GUI client for Poliqarp, focusing on code cleanup and new protocol integration.
Explains the problems with global variables in PHP and introduces the Registry pattern as a better alternative for sharing data.
A critique of the tech industry's hiring mantra "Smart, and Gets Things Done," exploring its flaws and the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Introduces a Scala library implementing Erlang-style Supervisor hierarchies for building fault-tolerant actor systems.
A transcribed talk about server-side JavaScript on the JVM, focusing on Mozilla Rhino and static typing.
A Nokia executive's controversial talk on DRM and open source highlights the need for better communication between corporations and the developer community.
A 2008 review of FriendFeed, a web 3.0 startup aggregating updates from 35+ social media sites, analyzing its features and limitations.
A summary of the SpringOne 2008 keynote on the Spring Source Application Platform, focusing on OSGi for enterprise application challenges.
A developer's summary of day one at SpringOne 2008, covering talks, IDE integration, a classloader issue, and licensing for the Spring Source Application Platform.
A developer details creating a custom Visual Studio Team System check-in policy to run solution-specific unit tests, addressing a multi-solution project challenge.
A 2008 critique of the original iPhone's lack of true Web 2.0 capabilities, focusing on push notifications, an open app store, and video streaming.
A summary of a talk on advanced Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) concepts, including practical examples using Hibernate and JDBC.
Overview of EclipseLink's high-performance JPA features for Spring, including caching, query hints, and database state history.
A summary of a talk by Spring JDBC lead Thomas Risberg on performance tuning for data access in Spring applications, covering JDBC, transactions, and ORM configuration.
Summary of Jürgen Höller's SpringOne 2008 talk on Spring 2.5 features and a preview of the upcoming Spring 3.0 release.
A critique of common pitfalls that hinder success in Silicon Valley's tech startup scene, focusing on mindset and behavior.
Explains how symlinks affect directory navigation in Unix shells vs. programming languages like Python, highlighting the 'cd -P' option.
