IBM to buy Rational for \$2.1B
Given IBM's Linux and Java strategy and Rational's Microsoft-centric strategy, this is shocking. According to the press release, Rational will become a separate division and brand (rather than be subsumed by Websphere). However, one must assume that future Rational efforts will concentrate far …
more ...Groovy underwater VR panoramas. Gorgeous underwater QTVR pano's. Navigate in a full circle, or vertically. Link via [Boing Boing Blog]
Is there cheap Windows software for creating this type of image?
more ...Intel releases new programming tools. The chipmaker releases new programming tools designed to increase the performance of software written for its Pentium, Xeon and Itanium processors. [CNET News.com] These payware compilers, available from Intel, are not for .NET, but the VTune Performance Analyzer does profile .NET apps. I'm not …
more ...This report from the Microsoft-Sun Java trial reads "Microsoft counters that Sun doesn't need the injunction because at least half the world's software developers already use Java." I can't find any direct reference to what was said, but I'd be very surprised to learn that Microsoft believes that half the …
more ...Optimal shoe tying strategy proven by mathematician: Ig Nobel, once seen as a two-way race between the guy who proved that Minesweeper is NP-Complete and the team that proved Tetris is NP-Complete, now considered wide-open by geeky oddsmakers.
more ...Not all code breakage is bad
Russ feels that a slavish devotion to interfaces is over-engineering. Darren weighs in on the side of interfaces, but seems to mostly be advocating the naming convention. Cedric advocates *the consistent use of factories when programming with interfaces. *
I like interfaces a lot. Raised …
more ...Holy cow! Completely browsable source code to Rotor! via [Sam Gentile's blog].
more ...OOP, performance, C# on non-MS platforms top subscriber concerns
Object-oriented analysis & design is the topic of most interest to subscribers of my mailing list, with fundamentals of object-oriented programming coming in second. Tuning C# for performance is next, the top-most .NET-specific interest and a topic of perennial interest. I might …
more ...Jason Whittington quoted this: *Matt Gripes wrote I'm glad Ximian wrote a C# port to linux, but, at the end of the day, is .NET going to be a uni-platform technology? * [Thinking In .NET]
And then Jason added: This problem is one I've been thinking about a lot lately....The …
more ...Winter Vomiting Disease is currently spreading fast through Scotland and northern England. Link (via Exciting Monkey Bum Stories for Boys & Girls)
So that's what I catch the morning after Christmas parties and New Year's Eve!
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