Ted Neward
Ted Neward is an independent consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 10-person shops. He is an authority in Java and .NET technologies, particularly in the areas of Java/.NET integration (both in-process and via integration tools like Web services), back-end enterprise software systems, and virtual machine/execution engine plumbing. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, two sons, and eight PCs.
"We Accept Pull Requests"
There are times when the industry in which I find myself does things that I just don't understand.
Java was not the first
Charlie Kindel blogs that he thinks James Gosling (and the rest of Sun) screwed us all with Java and it's "Write Once, Run Anywhere" mantra . It's catchy, but it's wrong.
Um... Security risk much?
While cruising through the Internet a few minute ago, I wandered across Meteor , which looks like a really cool tool/system/platform/whatever for building modern web applications. JavaScript on the front, JavaScript on the back, Mongo...
Last Thoughts on "Craftsmanship"
TL;DR Live craftsmanship, don't preach it. The creation of a label serves no purpose other than to disambiguate and distinguish. If we want to hold people accountable to some sort of "professionalism", then we have to define what that...
More on "Craftsmanship"
TL;DR : To all those who dissented, you're right, but you're wrong. Craftsmanship is a noble meme, when it's something that somebody holds as a personal goal, but it's often coming across as a way to beat up and denigrate on others...
On the Dark Side of "Craftsmanship"
I don't know Heather Arthur from Eve. Never met her, never read an article by her, seen a video she's in or shot, or seen her code. Matter of fact, I don't even know that she is a "she"--I'm just guessing from the name.
On Functional Programming in Java
Elliott Rusty Harold is blogging that functional programming in Java is dangerous . He's wrong, and he's way late to the party on this one--it's coming to Java whether he likes it or not.
Tech Predictions, 2013
Once again, it's time for my annual prognostication and review of last year's efforts . For those of you who've been long-time readers, you know what this means, but for those two or three of you who haven't seen this before, let's...
Envoy (in Scala, JavaScript, and more)
A little over a decade ago, Eugene Wallingford wrote a paper for the PloP '99 conference, describing the Envoy pattern language, "a pattern language for managing state in a functional program". It's a good read, but the implementation...
Scala syntax bug?
I'm running into a weird situation in some Scala code I'm writing (more on why in a later post), and I'm curious to know from my Scala-ish followers if this is a bug or intentional/"by design".
Cloud legal
There's an interesting legal interpretation coming out of the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) around the Megaupload case , and the EFF has said this: "The government maintains that Mr. Goodwin lost his property rights in his data...
Vietnam... in Bulgarian
I received an email from Dimitar Teykiyski a few days ago, asking if he could translate the "Vietnam of Computer Science" essay into Bulgarian, and no sooner had I replied in the affirmative than he sent me the link to it . If you're...
On JDD2012
There aren't many times that I cancel out of a conference (fortunately), so when I do I often feel a touch of guilt, even if I have to cancel for the best of reasons. (I'd like to think that if I have to cancel my appearance at a...
On NFJS
As the calendar year comes to a close, it's time (it's well past time, in fact) that I comment publicly on my obvious absence from the No Fluff, Just Stuff tour.
Microsoft is to Monopolist as Apple is to….
Remember the SAT test and their ridiculous analogy questions? “Apple : Banana as Steak : ???”, where you have to figure out the relationship between the first pair in order to guess what the relationship in the second pair should be?...
Just Say No to SSNs
Two things conspire to bring you this blog post.
Want Security? Get Quality
This CNET report tells us what we’ve probably known for a few years now: in the hacker/securist cyberwar, the hackers are winning. Or at the very least, making it pretty apparent that the cybersecurity companies aren’t making much...
Leveling up “DDD”
Eric Evans, a number of years ago, wrote a book on “Domain Driven Design”. Around the same time, Martin Fowler coined the “Rich Domain Model” pattern.
Is Programming Less Exciting Today?
As discriminatory as this is going to sound, this one is for the old-timers. If you started programming after the turn of the milennium, I don’t know if you’re going to be able to follow the trend of this post—not out of any serious...