One of the things I’ve been contemplating most from my recent trip to MIT is the hypothetical decision of, for any given software application, should I write a native application that runs directly on the phone or PC, or should … Continue reading →
I started reading Philip Greenspun’s database-backed web application books and articles around 2005. While I had previously seen database development as the droll, boring corner of computer science, as I realized how useful it could be to route a database … Continue reading →
I was converting an avionics subsystem from Ada to C. It was a client application that had to talk to an Ada server, sending and receiving rather huge chunks of data, large, deeply nested, intricate structure types. The C structure … Continue reading →