Do more with less: scripting for the win
mainframezen's posterous
August 2010
Degree of typing paradox
Notice the paradox in this diagram created by Miguel de Icaza (adaptation from John K. Ousterhout's original work).
The assembly language basically has no typing. The wrong idea is "Perl is closer to assembly than C".
Miguel de Icaza text http://www.mono-project.com/Scripting_With_Mono
Ousterhout text http://home.pacbell.net/ouster/scripting.html
No business buys a solution for a problem they don't have (Seth Godin)
Our luck is that they keep creating problems on their own.
Some examples of how companies create problems easily (IT related):
# Buying the product before designing the project
# Buying the product because (you know the usual suspects)
# Hiring consultants to build a team when they never worked together before...
# Preferring price over quality
# Having fun with micro-management and forgetting the big picture
...
SD Times 2010 Software Development influencers
Android Project - Don't have one
The Apache Foundation - Long time influencer
Apple - Making money FTW
Eclipse Foundation - Too many IDEs out there... confusing
Free Software Foundation
Google - My provider search results, mail, news reader, etc
IBM - respect
Intel - new processors, but nobody is paying attention...all is virtual now...
Linux Foundation
Microsoft - all is visual
Mono Project - Miguel de Icaza should get more from Microsoft
Oracle - Where is it going?
OSGi Alliance
Scala - if the world wants LISP, why not go for Arc?
Software Freedom Law Center
StackOverflow.com - I user it and you should too
Twitter - thinking out loud and create memory for you
VMWare - the stack, it's the stack
Subscribe myself???
#ux #fail
Now I understand what an intranet is
For large corporatios the intranet is a link portal to scattered applications on Legacy Systems.
Most without Single Sign On.
Most with it's own identify provisioning.
Scary.
Legacy software quote
From the moment one writes a line of code, it becomes legacy, and that legacy accumulates. Whether it becomes a cause of innovation inertia or a source of future value is a factor of how it is continuously modernized."
Grady Booch
IBM Fellow & Chief Scientist, Software Engineering in IBM Research
