Corba: Gone but (Hopefully) Not Forgotten: There is no magic and the lessons of the past apply just as well today.

A recent conversation about development methodologies turned to the relative value of various artifacts produced during the development process, and the person I was talking with said: the code has "always been the only artifact that matters. It’s just ...

The times they are a-changing: White is the new black. Thirty is the new 20. And spyware is the new spam---with a dash of virus mixed in for good measure. (Of course, we still have plenty of original-flavor spam and viruses hanging around, too). What ...

Back in ancient times, say, around the mid ’80s when I was a grad student, distributed systems research was in its heyday. Systems like Trellis/Owl and Eden/Emerald were exploring issues in object-oriented language design, persistence, and distributed ...