In middle of 1980s I wrote a large DBMS. The problem with my DBMS was that it crashed all the time and I just couldn’t figure out the cause of the crash.
Tangent: why are there so many curse words in the English computer science lingo?
My Program Crashes When Sonya Logs in Read More »
If you define an interface, say String, you should be able to provide an implementation of method like “translateToEnglish” that would be automatically adopted by all classes implementing the String interface.
COPs: Categories-on-Protocols Read More »
This was a highly abstract platform for building all kinds of visual modeling systems with heterogenous models.
At the end of the article, I declare that this was the highest achievement of my career and then dispute that declaration.
Model-View-Feature Read More »
This article outlines the architecture of a template based code generator. The templates themselves were written in a specialized programming language.
JCML: Java Code Markup Language Read More »
Configuration instead of code. This was the approach we took to creating an extensive web application, Home Counselor Online.
Mistakes were made: the web app was using HttpSessions and EJBs
DA: Different Architecture Read More »
In 1990 I got an amazing opportunity – one of the greatest in my life. And what did I do?
