William Grosso @ October 2, 2006
The inaugural issue of Foundations and Trends in Web Science, entitled A Framework For Web Science is available for free download.
Each issue of FnTWEB is an in-depth review of a single topic. This one appears (it’s 130 pages and I haven’t read it yet) to be making the case for “Web Science” as a discipline. [...]
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William Grosso @ September 4, 2006
I ran across a summary of a report by Evans Data Corporation today. It’s from December 1, 2005 and it’s very surprising. To wit:
The survey found that Client/Server application development has surged 30% in the last six months and is the most developed type of software after a three year decline.
The survey also found that [...]
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William Grosso @ August 21, 2006
Wow. Not only does Neal Gafter have a blog, he’s talking about some dramatic changes in Java for JDK 7.
Update: Oh dear. There’s a lot of traffic coming here from Neal’s blog. Apparently, people who read his post and are looking for more information. And all I was doing was saying “Hey. go read this.”
So, [...]
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William Grosso @ August 15, 2006
When the term AJAX was first introduced, I was a bit confused. It sounded like something many of us had been doing for years. And yet, the term was introduced, people acted as if it was something new, and the buzz was huge.
After a while, I got over my confusion. AJAX really was just a [...]
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William Grosso @ August 8, 2006
In an intriguing post, Tim O’Reilly claims that one of the major reasons the first propelled the open source movement is disappearing. To wit,
As a result, one of the motivations to share — the necessity of giving a copy of the source in order to let someone run your program — is truly gone.
He then [...]
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William Grosso @ August 3, 2006
I like Rails. It’s a nice framework for web applications. I think that if you’re developing web applications, even if you’re not using Rails, you have reason to be thankful: most of the other frameworks are now trying to catch-up and that means that everyone building web apps has an easier time of it (except, [...]
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William Grosso @ June 20, 2006
Over the weekend, I had something of an aha moment. I've been wandering around a lot lately, and thinking more than usual about the industry and what's going on.
I think the panel discussion last Friday on Emerging Technologies was also a catalyst. As a result of preparing for it, I've been wondering about 2009 more [...]
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William Grosso @ June 20, 2006
I know, I know. The title only works if you imagine that I sound like Cary Grant. And, actually, it doesn't really work then either.
But … SDForum now has a Ruby SIG! Really. We do. I'll repeat that in a slightly bigger font, in case you missed it:
SDForum now has a Ruby SIG.
This is the [...]
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William Grosso @ June 17, 2006
Every now and then, I wind up talking in front of a room full of people. It's an occupational hazard– what with running SDForum's Emerging Technology SIG and with being a VP of Engineering at startups, people sometimes think I might have something worth saying. And since I'm such a gracious and genial person, I [...]
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William Grosso @ June 11, 2006
If you're reading this blog, you probably know that I help to run SDForum's Emerging Technology SIG.
My goal there is simple: to help to create an ongoing series of talks that prepares the entrepreneurial engineering community for what's coming down the pipeline.
Sidenote: There's been a lot of talk lately about what makes Silicon Valley what [...]
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