There's a a carefully understated saying, attributed to the ancient Chinese:
"May you live in interesting times." While at first glance living in
interesting times might have been construed as a blessing, we who live in the
present times know that interesting can be a curse. We've taken complexity to
a new order of magnitude. It's hard to know what, exactly, we should be
interested in. In these interesting times of information overload, it's often
difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Those of us in the business of computers know something that isn't always
obvious to the layman, although a layman can often sense it. Our computers
have not worked as advertised to reduce complexity in our lives, but in many
ways have actually increased it. If your TV was as complicated to operate as
your PC, you would have traded it in for a radio years ago. If you think
a... (more)
Domino, the latest incarnation of the software system formerly known as Lotus
Notes, provides Web developers with an effective, efficient and inexpensive
vehicle for building and deploying full-featured Web sites. The current
release of the Notes server software is called Domino 4.5 and it maintains
the Notes heritage for developing robust work flow applications (with
features like field level replication) while extending it to the Web. Lotus
amplifies Domino's Web server capabilities with a number of template
databases. The Domino.Action template enables Web site developers, aft... (more)
Visual Age for Javaª provides a good IDE for object oriented development.
One of the strong points of Visual Age for Java is its support for JavaBeans.
As everyone in the world knows by now JavaBeans are components, or software
parts, from which applications can be built. This has been the holy grail of
object-oriented development, and Visual Age for Java supports it well. It
provides a convenient, connect-the-dots metaphor for assembling an
application from parts.
One of the obvious questions one might ask, of course, is, "Where do the
parts come from?" IBM does supply some Jav... (more)
Mike Fichtelman is a certified senior project manager at IBM supporting their Web hosting business. He has over 20 years' experience in the information technology field as a developer, designer, and project manager. Mike has an MBA from Hofstra University and his work has been published in a number of journals on subjects ranging from infrastructure to the development of wireless applications using Java, XML, and WAP. He also teaches an e-business course in the MBA program at the University of Phoenix.
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