From the monthly archives:

March 2009

Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA)

March 11, 2009

WOA is an emergent phenomenon across Start-ups and the Enterprise. Top level history of development: Structured Object Oriented Service Oriented – turn applications into open platforms SOAP, WSDL etc Web Oriented – address the failings in service oriented inability to deal with legal, technical, security and other business issues.  REST SOAP is stable or shrinking, [...]

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The Web Platform

March 11, 2009

Presented by two of my favorite speakers Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith and they were as good as ever.  i lost my notes, but this is what i remembered without seeing the slides again. Mozilla concept series – future of the browser, the sci-fiction.  But what is really happening to the browser.  Started with Netscape [...]

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The Science of Computing and the Engineering of Software

March 11, 2009

Is computing science?  is software engineering? the answers Tony Hoare argues must be the same! In the extremes: Scientist Scientist interested in the long term and scientific truth which has no finite lifetime. Idealism, general theories and certainty (theory supported by multiple items of evidence) separate of work into individual elements which can be formulized [...]

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Edit your host file OSX

March 5, 2009

1. Open up your terminal application 2. Type in “sudo pico /etc/hosts” 3. Type in your administration password 4. Use your arrow keys to maneuver the cursor and type in whatever entries you are wanting to put in your hosts file 5. Once you are done, hit Control-o 6. and then hit Control-x

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