Sam Ruby offers the following advice to those of us who would like to improve the interoperability of iCalendar feeds: Identifying real issues that prevent real feeds from being consumed by real co…

In a 2003 InfoWorld story on the globalization of software development I asked Andy Singleton to share his thoughts on distributed software development. He has continued to refine and reflect on hi…

Last month, in a series of entries, I laid out the case for an effort — inspired by the RSS/Atom feed validator — to create a similar suite of tests and tools for iCalendar feeds. I&#82…

Hello from somewhere over the Philippine Sea! My watch just nudged me to get up and walk around. My phone tells me that I am connected at roughly 10 Mbps. I am having a WhatsApp conversation with f…

My friend Allen Helton asked what I meant when I said, “APIs reduce everything to a transaction” on LinkedIn recently. He was curious whether I meant this conceptually or technically. To be honest, I mean both. I purposely leave it loosely defined, and wield it in many different ways. I do this simply to get people thinking about the nuance of digital transactions we often take for granted. I just want people to ask questions like Allen is doing, and pause from time to time to think about what a “transaction” means to us. I feel we’ve done quite a bit of thinking about what transactions mean in our physical world, but I think we have a huge amount of discussion ahead when it comes to what it means in a digital world.

Doing what Java never did

Explaining 10 must known query methods to fetch single records

The once-thriving site used to answer our most specific questions. But users are fleeing.

Robert Tinney was in great demand to do covers for companies other than Byte. Here are the ones I have.

I was fed up with the poor opportunities for abstraction in configuration formats. The many configuration languages that exist already were not invented here, so I wrote my own, at first just for fun. But then it became useful.

The Apple Vision Pro is a disappointment for productivity, in part because of choices made to deliver a remarkable entertainment experience. Plus, the future of AR/VR for Apple and Meta.

There's a limit to how much technology can improve.

Legacy monolithic structures, with their rigid scalability, have often caused businesses like Blockbuster to be left behind. Now, businesses can provision resources on-demand, and reduce overheads associated with data center management.

“There is no real picture, full stop.”

Thinking about the second-order impact of the Vision Pro and other news.

What the **** does that mean?

A diagram I created years ago. I though it’s worth sharing.

Sustainability efforts and high-density AI-based applications are sparking new and revamped approaches to data center cooling.

Enterprises typically have three options: Set up a secondary data center, go with an external DR service provider, or leverage the public cloud for recovery.

Microsoft retrieved the Northern Isles underwater datacenter from the seafloor off Scotland's Orkney Islands. Project Natick is proving the concept of underwater datacenters is feasible as well as logistically, environmentally and economically practical.

David Sparks, in the Mac Power Users episode Don’t Hear What We Aren’t Saying : “The holy trinity of productivity: you need a good calenda...

Load balancing gRPC requests on Kubernetes can be challenging. In this blog we tried to deep dive into the inner-workings of each part…

In 2024 developers' professional lives will not be as impacted by new tools and frameworks as by - mental health.