Archive for February 7th, 2007

Feb 07 2007

Blog Entrys Move in Mysterious Ways

Posted by Dan Creswell in General, Personal, Technology

I wrote something about parallels between distributed systems and real life which included some stuff on the bird flu’ outbreak here in the UK. Imagine my surprise when I saw this referral!

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Made me smile anyways, not quite the readership I was expecting!

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Feb 07 2007

Ignoring Java's Roots Again

Posted by Dan Creswell in Technology

This really shouldn’t be difficult, it sounds like a repeat of the kind of issues we had with Applets. Didn’t we learn anything?

Once again, Java was built for this not monolithic, static applications, why is it so hard? Because we’ve not done anything to sort out issues with classloaders and remote code-loading or delivery of classes in .jars in a long, long time.

Sun, stop ignoring the core philosophy of your own software platform, please, it’s excruciating.

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Feb 07 2007

The RDBMS God…..

Posted by Dan Creswell in Distributed Systems, Enterprise Systems, Technology

…..has been worshipped for a long time but there are various barbarian enclaves that are not ready to kneel before him.

Enterprises certainly want the money saving opportunities of utility computing options such as EC2 but there is evidence to suggest that RDBMS’en aren’t cut out for this role.

And recent statements on TSS suggest some people are at least beginning to think that we are mis-using RDBMS’en ignoring it’s lack of suitability to a task because it’s an easy option.

Time to seek a new religion?

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