|
Tuesday, January 14, 2003 |
|
on the topic of RSS aggregation and his work on NewsHeap: an RSS aggregator written in Ruby. It all starts with his No Sleep til Brooklyn entry and continues on in subsequent posts.
The non-MacOS world suffers from the absence of anything that can touch NetNewsWire, IMO. Jeff has some really good ideas for NewsHeap. I hope his work gets the notice it deserves. |
|
A lot of blogging about AOP out there. Ted Neward's The Mountain of Worthless Information is arguably a good place to start. From there you can see Ted's interactions with a Rickard Oberg, CrazyBob (née Bob Lee), and, most recently, Marc Fleury.
As implementors of their own AOP frameworks, CrazyBob and Rickard both took issue with what they considered Ted's overly restrictive definition of AOP. Ted subsequently reconsidered his analysis of CrazyBob's jAdvise, and he believes that he and Rickard have come to a sort of agreement.
As I considered these entries to show to be some progress toward making this a constructive discussion, I was disappointed to see Marc Fleury jump in with something of an ad hominem attack on Ted. (Does Marc think that calling Ted an imbecile makes his case. [That said, Ted should fix the spelling of Marc's surname in the titles of his blog entry.]) What I'm most disappointed by in both Rickard's and Marc's responses, however, is their repeated assertions that AspectJ-style AOP cannot scale. Both claim to have proven this conclusively. They may have. If so, why no links to results, though? That would be far more compelling than name-calling. (Similarly, Ted should reconsider questioning Marc's overall technical expertise based on his being unaware of SQL injection attacks. It isn't an issue that is all that relevant to Marc's focus.) |
Last update: 11/2/04; 6:05:10 PM .
