Application Development

Multi-Core III - a panacea of options I find it amazing how many ways we can find to slice a pizza, skin a cat, or solve a technology problem. Truly amazing. Thus far in my multi-core odyssey, I have run into driver-based solutions, library-based solutions, and shim-based solutions to how to maximize use of multi-core. That's not to mention the upcoming version of C++, which is supposed to include the solution in the compiler. Each of these approaches has its strengths, though I think the best option would be for the OS to resolve the problem directly. It already has a scheduler and mechanisms for semaphores and... posted @ Monday, September 22, 2008 12:13 PM | Feedback (2)

Web 2.0? Or Web 2.0? As you've no doubt noticed, there is a bit of duplicate name confusion in the Web 2.0 world. Developers say "Web 2.0" and they mean SOA, dynamic binding, etc. When business people say "Web 2.0" they mean blogs, video, RSS feeds. DevCentral is an example of Web 2.0, the business version. We've got blogs, video (no DRM, thank you), podcasts, forums, articles, and it's all wrapped together nice as pie. But DevCentral is also an example of utilizing Web 2.0. Some of the wizardry done behind the scenes and added to by the team is pure Web 2.0 nirvana. So... posted @ Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:52 PM | Feedback (0)