Timothy Dyck

As a general rule, more choice is good. I make my living informing you, the reader, of new choices you may have not considered before. Choices keep our industry fresh and encourage the untried path in the hope it may lead somewhere promising. This policy breaks down when we consider user interface design. Emerson famously […]

Two web titans, Amazon.com and Google.com, both recently launched experimental XML-based Web service APIs that alpha-geek developers can kick around to see how they might be used to incorporate these sites features into developers own Web sites. Amazon.coms API (available only to those in the sites Associates program) takes the first steps in opening up […]

Last month, IBM posted an online walk-though showing, in more detail than it has before, how it will be add XML features to DB2. Click here for the walkthrough Xperanto is the code name for IBMs next generation data integration technology. Xperanto is three things: a query processor that accepts data queries in XQuery syntax; […]

The web services electronic marketplace that UDDI was originally developed to address is looking increasingly far-off, but this emerging technology can still be useful in the near term as a way to help internal developers find and take advantage of far-flung corporate applications in new code. eWeek Labs tested two recently released Universal, Discovery, Description […]

With one versions worth of experience under its belt, the UDDI design team has gained valuable insight into the things it missed in UDDI 1.0. UDDI 2.0 takes important steps forward, while 3.0, now in early development, should really hit its stride. “Many larger corporations and virtual businesses such as marketplaces and trade blocks had […]

Simulation is making a resurgence in the IT industry. Im amazed at the technical artistry involved in writing software so that one CPU can translate —on the fly— a foreign instruction set into its native tongue fast enough to do something useful with that capability. In fact, current CPUs are fast enough to emulate a […]

Object-oriented programming languages came into their commercial heyday in the 1990s, and one of the fringe benefits of object-oriented programming research was the development of a standard way to diagram the internal structure of programs. A standard managed by the Object Management Group, UML (Unified Modeling Language) is officially described as “the industry-standard language for […]

Tools Ease Big -Project Pain”> The top two players in the code modeling and code generation space—Rational Software Corp. and TogetherSoft Corp.—have just updated their flagship products, hoping to appeal to a new generation of .Net and Web developers. TogetherSofts $3,495 Together ControlCenter 6.0, launched at JavaOne last month, is the latest version of that […]

It was like dropping a red handkerchief at a bullring. On March 8, IBM developer Martin Bligh posted notice to the Linux kernel development list that he had compiled the Linux 2.4.18 kernel in 23 seconds. Bligh used a 16-CPU IBM NUMA-Q box with 4GB of RAM and had whittled that time down from his […]

JDBC 3 .0 Offers Database Control”> In mid-February, Sun Microsystems Inc. released the latest version, 3.0, of the JDBC API specification, defining how Java applications access relational databases. The core Java Database Connectivity 3.0 libraries are included in Java 2 Standard Edition 1.4, so installing a Java 1.4-compliant Java virtual machine is the easiest way […]