Mike has what seems to me to be a very cool job and yet it can get very morbid. I first met Mike the Spring before 911 when he and his wife moved in upstairs. Mike works for a DNA lab/consulting outfit and it was his firm that ran the mammoth job of trying to [...]
Version: 1.0
The Requirements
Eliminate the need to install database specific components on end user PCs.
Do not change application code however refactor where needed. The goal is to make changes to the access of the database transparent to the application.
The Solution
Employ Opentalk ST-ST to proxy database connections/sessions.
Background
The application which does what it does well uses [...]
I finally caught up with Al Di Meola’s The Grande Passion. Ever since I bought my Ovation guitar I have been more interested in the albums DiMeola made with his acoustic group World Sinfonia. For one I can relate to them better since I am exclusively playing on the Ovation and have not touched my [...]
Today I was reminded of how important service is and that quality is not all. I usually value quality over service. By that I mean is that I am willing to be inconvenienced if I get good value out of a particular product. In the case of food, how it taste, smells and is presented [...]
From the VisualWorks Non-Commercial List
Given the following code:
set1 := Set with: 2 with: 3 with: 4.
set2 := Set with: 4 with: 3 with: 2.
Should:
set1 = set2 ?
BTW, the above in Smalltalk reads set1 is equal to set2.
The answer is that in VisualWorks it does not but in Squeak it does. I favor the Squeak [...]
Last year I blogged on FPL’s emergency response system called Trouble Call Management System (TCMS). TCMS is a Smalltalk system which uses Gemstone/S a Smalltalk based app server/OODMS . What is becoming very noteworthy is that these storms seem to be getting stronger and more frequent and now apparently they are starting much sooner in [...]
Some dude out in the UK published an interview with my composition and Jazz teacher Jon Raney. Here is the link to the interview. I’m not sure who this guy is and what he does but Jon’s answers provide an interesting perspective into what originality is.
Jon is the son of a legendary American Jazz guitarist [...]
If ever in New York City, per chance at a Smalltalk conference or not, and if you like Thai food or always wanted to try it then you must checkout the Lemon Grass Grill chain of restaurants. Like my taste in music my taste in foods leans toward a fusion of styles. I have heard [...]
Many eons ago I remember having a philosophical discussion on IT strategy with an upper management type. He said to me: “good developers do not use their tools as excuses”. I quickly replied: “well, I can open a can of tuna with a screwdriver but a can opener would surely be a lot less [...]
Opentalk is great, Its a well factored and thus extensible framework. It allows local and remote objects to interact transparently. However, it has a couple major flaws at least in the context of p2p. In my previous post I mentioned that I had coded my Kazaa like prototype about 3 years ago. Well, I did [...]