By tim, on March 4th, 2009
Follow tim on TwitterI’m fascinated by the O’Reilly reports on the state of the computer book market in 2008, particularly the one relating to programming languages.
Notable facts and speculations:
C# is the number one language, overtaking Java (which is down 12%), and was consistently so throughout 2008. Although the .NET platform is no longer new and exciting, I’m guessing
…continue reading Programming language trends: Flash up, AJAX down?
By tim, on November 3rd, 2008
Follow tim on TwitterI’m at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, where Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, and co-founder Parker Harris, are presenting new features in the force.com platform.
The first is a built-in ability to publish your Force.com data as a public web site. The service is currently in “developer preview” and set for full release in 2009.
…continue reading Salesforce.com linking with Facebook, Amazon
By tim, on October 10th, 2008
Follow tim on TwitterI’m at London’s dreary Excel centre for Carson’s Future of Web Apps conference, just before the opening of day two. Yesterday was a mixed bag; good when speakers talk technical; bad when they descend into marketing. The origins of the conference are as a start-up incubator; developers and entrepreneurs getting together to see what’s new
…continue reading Future of Web Apps 2008 Day One: Web is DVD, desktop VHS
By tim, on June 24th, 2008
Follow tim on TwitterThe official Ruby blog reports:
Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby may lead to a denial of service (DoS) condition or allow execution of arbitrary code.
More discussion here and here. The community is fixing the problems energetically; but they do appear serious, and some are struggling with compatibility issues.
Since these seem to be bugs in the interpreter, it
…continue reading Ruby interpreter flaws make the case for JRuby?
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