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Today Twitter isn’t mass media. It is still a niche communication platform outside US. But what happens if Google will buy them? It will create a direct competitor to all journalists and existing media channels, like Fox News, CNN or BBC. Twitter users as “Citizen journalists” will post their stories and have adwords. They will [...]
Obama Supporters Prefer Firefox: We’ve had about 500,000 visitors over the past 3 months, of which 61% use Firefox, 23% use IE, and 11% use Safari. Opera and some browsers I haven’t heard about before make up the rest of the traffic. This is a trend, we can see in Germany for years: the tremendous [...]
Past, Present, and Future Trends in Software Patterns The Growing Divide in the Patterns World Joseph Bergin’s “Do the Right Thing” Context: Things are bad. Really bad. Forces: When things are bad it is really tough and bad things happen. When things get better the bad stuff doesn’t happen any more and you feel good. [...]
According to Jørgensen (2001), the most straightforward aspect of the code stage is represented by the astonishing rate of software developers contributing high quality code. Parallel review of such code constitutes the next stage. Paradoxically, even though more complex code would benefit from peer reviewing, it turns out that the simpler the code is, the [...]
ARCHITECTURE from The Rational Edge: This introduction to the relatively new discipline of software architecture is the first of a four-part series on “architecting” in general. The author begins by defining the discipline’s key terms and goes on to explore what a well-designed architecture contributes to the environment in which it is deployed. IBM’s Peter [...]
Object caching is an important aspect in the design and development of Web Applications. JCS is a distributed caching system written in java. A rapidly growing number of organizations are taking advantage of the emerging JCache standard for distributed caching to help scale application performance . We used it with success and hopefully will design [...]