Monday, April 08, 2002

"The Unified Theory of Software Evolution", an article on Salon.  It describes an IBM researcher's theories of the "laws" of software evolution.  It provides an interesting academic validation to the iterative and incremental growth strategy of the XP software development process. [gtb] 2:00:18 PM

"The Computer Is the Network"?  Sun's recent efforts with JXTA are chronicled in the Economist.  Project JXTA is Sun's open source effort for the research and development of a network programming and computing platform for peer-to-peer computing (P2P).  As developers, this is the project effort that we think has the right technical focus.  It will be interesting to see if the market gets sidetracked by the .NET hype. [gtb] 1:45:22 PM

Some of the largest consumer groups in the U.S. have expressed concerns that a Federal Communications Commission proposal to weaken regulations to create competition between high-speed ISPs may pose a threat to the Internet. The perception is that the changes will provide the owners of the network in the U.S. with more power to control access and content. Here's the link to the full story...[ldl] 1:29:41 PM

Hackers as "canaries in coal mines"?  Tim O'Reilly's most recent thoughts on where the web is going and where we ought to follow. Today's hackers help determine the direction of the future of the Internet: "The hackers are already treating the Internet as this global data resource and they're building Web services however they have to...".  [bs] 1:28:03 PM

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