Old Jaanix Posts

In this feature, we’d like to help you minimize those mistakes by dissecting 4 very different web application companies that are at varying stages of their life cycle. In addition to age and size, these companies vary in their business more...

Where will all the CPU time go on desktops with these highly parallel processors?

Pownce was launched this week to much fan-fare and I signed up to the service and spent all of a few minutes there to see what all the fuss was about (although most of the fuss was about Kevin Rose, more...

Microsoft® Silverlight™ is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby, and integrates more...

But some faces you do remember; students who did a project under you. Also two other categories - the very good and the very bad. Brilliance and abject failure both stick in the mind. And one of the oddest things, more...

The Implications of OpenID

Fascinating, you say, but what does this have to do with computer science and more specifically languages? In many cases, the communities that form around languages are very similar to the insular communities that created these practices. To take this more...

Damn smart guy that created rails talking about what it takes to live in "imaginary" world of rails

Numerical constrained optimization is an important tool with extensive applications in many diverse fields. An ideal problem for constrained optimization is one that has a single measure defining the quality of a solution (the objective function) plus some requirements upon more...

in their own words

One of the dirty secrets of computer programming is Repetitive Stress Injury. It affects a surprisingly large percentage of people (even prominent Rails developers!), but few talk about it.

Why a re-introduction? Because JavaScript has a reasonable claim to being the world's most misunderstood programming language.

Sun's dated Web programming language is getting a makeover; will new consumer-friendly versions attract more developers—and sales?