[I’m reposting this from my personal journal as it has development applicability – in so much as it is a tale about how NOT to design software.]
So I’ve been trying to wire money to Kenya. No, I haven’t been contacted by the wife of a former dictator who needs my urgent assistance in moving […]
Working as I do in the Rails world these days, I’m periodically reminded of the difference between me and most Rails programmers. That is, the fact that I came to Rails via Ruby, rather than vice-versa. Usually this happens when someone at work or in the blog world expresses delight (or perplexity) about […]
A passage in Charles Nutter’s reaction to MagLev caught my eye today:
First off, they demonstrated its distributed object database automatically synchronizing globally-reachable state across multiple VMs. It’s an amazing new idea that the world has never really seen…
except that it isn’t. This is based on existing OODB technology that Gemstone and others have been promoting […]