It was 25 years ago, today (May 2, 1983) that Borland was founded here in Scotts Valley California (actually the company was formally registered in San Jose California). Twenty-five years of innovations, product releases, announcements, and events including some listed below.
1983: Borland International founded by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad and Philippe Kahn (CEO)
1983: […]
Donald Knuth, author of the all-time best Computer Science book series (in my opinion), "The Art of Computer Programming", was recently interviewed by Andrew Binstock for informIT.com. The interview is very indepth covering programming, methods, tools, history, architecture, and more. I’ve listed a few of the interview highlights that caught my eye.
On unit testing: "the idea […]
The Rails framework and Rails applications are great examples of the use of the Model View Controller (MVC) architecture. MVC was first created by Trygve Mikkjel Heyerdahl Reenskaug, a Norwegian computer scientist. Reenskaug created the first MVC implementation and document as a visiting scientist at Xerox PARC between the summer of 1978 and summer of […]
Interesting post on Slashdot pointing to a rec.arts.int-fiction newsgroup post about the 30th anniversary of Will Crowther’s original Adventure game. “Somewhere Nearby is Colossal Cave”… I remember playing the original Fortran Adventure game on a PDP-10 in the mid-1970s. Later on I would play Adventure games, by Scott Adams from Adventure International, on my Apple II computer.
You’ll […]
Grady Booch’s recent ACM SIGCSE 2007 (SIGCSE = Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education) invited talk was titled, "Readn’, Writ’n, ‘Rithmetic…and Code’n". I love the title. It almost sounds like a country and western song title (if so, shouldn’t the "‘Rithmetic", in the title, actually be "‘Rithmetic’n"?).
The abstract can be found at http://www.cs.potsdam.edu/sigcse07/Speakers.shtml#booch. The PowerPoint […]
I own a boat load of computer science books. I have many shelves of wonderful programming and reference books at work and home. If you scanned the shelves, six books would stand out as the most used, abused, and dog eared. These are the six books that, over the years, I have read (and re-read) more than […]
My first programming language in college was a Fortran program to list prime numbers. I was a freshman (Fall 1969) at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo where I was an Aeronautical Engineering major for one quarter before I changed my major to Computer Science. Last week, on Saturday March 17th, John W. Backus passed away at the age […]
From PC World online, December 20 - http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,128265/printable.html
Here’s the top 10 of their list of the top 21 technology (and technology company) screwups in 2006 along with a comment or two from me.
Flaming notebook batteries - thankfully, none of my notebook batteries were on the recall list.
The HP corporate spying scandal - yikes. Who’s watching?
Electronic voting […]
Some of you may have read a recent article by Verity Stob on Reg developer. The article talks about the “Sons of Kahn“, “the valley of the Scotts“, “The word of Tod“, and “The March of the Users“. Take a look, it is very entertaining. After reading the online article, I took it upon myself to […]
We lost a great member of the software development community today. Mansour Safai passed away peacefully in his sleep last night at around 2:45 AM. I remember being on several developer conference panels with Mansour and having great technical and business discussions in meetings, hallways, and airports. His impact in the development industry has been […]