The other day I wrote down this Haiku [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku] out of disappointment: > With a necktie in January: Erratic spacing at the end of lines Heedless programmer continues to code Disappointment that came from recently inspecting gallons of ruthlessly written source code. The business logic,…
Airbus A380 Superjumbo [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380] — the largest passenger airliner in the world, with one mind-boggling “flaw.” Apparently, the Superjumbo is so quiet that the pilots have complained about the lack of engine noise [http://www.smh.com.au/travel/a380-is-too-quiet-say-sleepless-pilots-20081205-6s1x.html] , which is preventing them…
With PDC 2008 [http://www.microsoftpdc.com/] coming up, Microsoft’s .NET Framework [http://www.microsoft.com/NET/] gets a refreshing new logo [http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PDC2008NewNETLogo.aspx]. Yesterday, Seth Godin also wrote [http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/10/your-brand-is-n.html] about the importance of a…
In the cloud computing space, there’s the SaaS model, its cousin DaaS [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2008/04/06/daas-the-cousin/], and their distant mate – Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). All the “XaaS” platforms exist and operate under the same umbrella, so to speak. The “Comparing Amazon’s and Google’s Platform-as-a-Service…
Earlier, I wrote about the SaaS [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2008/03/20/pain-in-the-saas/] (Software as a Service) model of software application delivery, and it drew the attention of Lars Leckie [http://larsleckie.blogspot.com/] who writes about SaaS, and more recently wrote about DaaS (Data as a Service)…
Ben Yoskovitz shares his experience with SaaS [http://www.instigatorblog.com/lessons-learned-running-a-saas-business/2008/03/10/] (Software as a Service), in which he suggests that vendors should charge their customers monthly, or offer discounts for longer term commitments. In my opinion, a more efficient option will be to offer a PAYG…
Let’s take a quick tour. The first-generation web, Web 1.0 (prior to 1998), with its text-only web pages, centered around the “web browser” (application host). Web 2.0 (2002-2007) is centered around interaction (application dynamics and logic). The Web 2.0 trend is bloated with API’s, mashups,…
Test-driven development (TDD [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development]), is an evolutionary approach to software development, in which you write a test before you write just enough production code to fulfill that test. The simple goal of TDD is to write clean code that works. Due to this fact,…