Archives for May 2006
Tim Bray is talking about Grids today. His article, On Grids, is worth a read if you’re interested in Grids. I have a couple of comments.
Let’s put that another way: memory space and compute cycles are pretty cheap. Disk space is effectively free. Moving data around in large quantities is expensive. In […]
Sometimes, I wonder. I really do. I don’t mean to be rude, but the latest missive from Richard Stallman on the state of Java is just nonsense. Really, there’s no other word for it.
Richard says,
Our community has been abuzz with the rumor that Sun has made its implementation Java free software (or […]
In his blog post, Continuations and GUIs, Tim Bray asserts that,
This notion, that the Web GUI is insufficiently interactive and we need something richer, is widely held among developers and almost never among actual users of computers, and it’s entirely wrong.
Here, Tim is talking about what you might call “standard” Web GUIs: things like HTML […]
If you’ve followed computing in the Life Sciences, you’ll know that during the last ten years there’s been constant talk about the so-called “data explosion”. In the late 1990s, much to our amusement, barely a week would go buy without receiving some marketing letter from a vendor telling us how our data was […]
It’s been a good few years since the last time I looked at Solaris x86. In fact, I think the last time was back in the late 1990s, when we were building our first Linux compute farm for use in the Life Sciences. We were a Solaris SPARC shop on the server side, […]
Java is a great platform, and a great language. In fact, as I’ve said before, it’s my overall favourite programming language. Particular strengths are Java’s many and varied APIs. And, as Tim Bray points out, the Java community is really paying attention to developer productivity in the face of stiff competition - […]