Today we had a checkpoint review of the APIs that our team is working on for WinFX (the Longhorn API). The review is an opportunity for people from around the company to look at our API design and comment on usability, security, performance, and generally anything else that needs to be looked at for an […]
Some notes from the Comcast HDTV install today. Maybe this will save someone some time. The Comcast HD Cable Box is a Motorola DCT5100, and doesn’t have the serial remote that the General Instruments had. Using the Tivo’s IR blaster, you need to configure the Tivo to connect to a General Instruments (that’s right, NOT […]
ZapThink recently offered a critique of Gartner’s “Four-Platform Framework” for Web Services:
“we have seen a recurring vision for Web Services that has outlived its questionable usefulness at representing how the market is implementing and producing products for real-world Web Services and SOA solutions – namely Gartner’s Four-Platform Framework of Web Services.”
For the most part, I […]
Oracle has just become the first company to break a million tpmC on a single box. The price per tpmC is still high, but more disturbing is the cluster result on linux, where Oracle also breaks a million, but gets nearlyfifty percentmore tpmC than SQL Server and at nearly a third the price per tpmC. […]
Many people have horror stories about riding the SkyTrain at Newark Airport. It has a tendency to get stuck between stations, or to lock customers in and shuttle them around endlessly like cows in a claustrophobic boxcar. Here are my tips:
The attendants can’t really help you. They can radio ahead to have the software (Polsoft […]