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Self-Managing distributed applications

By dlambert ⋅ October 2, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I recently read about the SELFMAN project on ReadWriteWeb (Coming Soon: Internet Apps that Heal Themselves).  This project, started in 2006, aims to standardize and package the infrastructure needed to manage large-scale distributed applications.  So far, they’ve produced some sample / reference applications using components written in Java.  I don’t know if the bits themselves [...]

What is the next VB 1.0?

By dlambert ⋅ October 8, 2008 ⋅ 8 comments

Visual Basic has to be one of the most polarizing technologies of the last twenty years.  No technology is at once as revered as the tool that brought Windows development to the masses, while also being maligned and looked down-upon by “real” developers.  Personally, I don’t think there’s a bit of doubt about the former, [...]

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