An article in the Boston Business Journal talks about recent system failures caused by software bugs. The article is titled, "Software bug problem grows with programs’ complexity". The article mentions software problems that can cause Toyota Prius hybrid cars to stall at highway speeds, a crash on the Verizon 911 service in California, malfunction in […]
Web applications, like Google Maps, powered by Asynchronous JavaScript Technology and XML (AJAX), are causing a buzz in the Internet software development community. Information Week online has a copy of an Associated Press news article titled, “Ajax-Driven Web Software Challenges Microsoft”. Sun Developer Network has a good technical article about Ajax and J2EE.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $15 million to the Computer History Museum (CHM). The CHM is located in Mountain View, California in the heart of the Silicon Valley. The museum contains many online and physical exhibits. The museum also holds events that capture the living history from the people who were involved in industry milestones. The CHM also contains […]
I was reading an article, on the Embedded Systems Design web site, titled “Big Code”. The author, Jack Ganssle, talks about the estimated number of lines of code (LOC) in the upcoming Microsoft Windows Vista as being around 50 million. At a 5% bug rate, this would yield a total bug count of 2.5 million bugs. […]
Five robotic vehicles have completed the 132 mile DARPA Grand Challenge desert race today. The field included 23 autonomous robotic vehicle entries trying to win the $2 million DARPA prize. Last year no vehicles finished the course, and several had spectacular failures. The vehicles leave the starting line at time intervals. The winner is the vehicle […]
I saw a recent post on Slashdot pointing to an article on about reuse engineering with a specific focus on the reuse issues in Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). Read the article at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-reuse-soa.html.
What’s the big deal about SOA? Read the article at http://www.devx.com/ibm/Article/29318
Microsoft’s Indigo programming model for SOA - intro article at http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/indigo/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/introindigov1-0.asp
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You’ve seen the digital camera pictures of the Delphi / C++Builder Roadmap on different blog postings. You’ve read Danny Thorpe’s blog entry that explains the Delphi Roadmap 2005-2006. Below you will find a better quality bitmap of the roadmap slide taken from my presentation at the German Developer Conference 2005 (EKON 9). Click on the bitmap to […]
A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to take part in the Cal Poly SLO Computer Science Department faculty retreat. One of the sessions, during the day, focused on academic integrity. Several of the professors talked about a UC Berkeley tool for detecting plagiarism in software programs. The software is called Moss (Measure of Software Similarity). […]