The Share-Nothing Architecture

Although I used to think otherwise, PHP scales very well and probably easier than other platforms like Java, ASP.NET and Perl (using mod_perl) and I’ll tell you why. But first I’ll tell what scalability is and how it’s different from speed, as they’re often mixed up.

Implementing C#/.NET events in Python

One of the things I liked in C# is its event-system. Although you need quite a lot of code to define an event. When I saw Python supports operator overload, I thought I’d try to implement such an event system in Python, and I did in 12 lines of code:

Test Of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)

Tomorrow’s the day. Tomorrow is the day that I’m doing my TOEFL(Test Of English as a Foreign Language) exam. It’s a certificate I need to get into “Trinity College”:http://www.zefhemel.com/archives/2004/08/20/trinity-college. The computer-based…

Distributed Systems Week part I: What Are They?

Distributed systems, you hear a lot about them, but what are they? Why would you need them? Why do they matter? What kinds are there? How do they work? That’s what I’ll try to give you an overview of this week. In this first part I’ll talk about…

Distributed Systems Week part IV: The Service-Oriented Architecture

A hot thing these days is the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). The basic idea is that instead of focussing on self-containing applications, you focus on offering and using services. It’s a little like…

On Java Generics and Dynamic Typing

Again? Yes, again. I just found a series of posts on Bruce Eckel’s “weblog”:http://www.mindview.net/WebLog (which I assumed I was subscribed to, but apparantly wasn’t) about Java’s erasing implementation of generics.

Distributed Systems Week part II: The Client-Server Model

The most common model for distributing a system is the client-server model. The model is fairly simple to explain and use.

The name of the model is quite descriptive. In your distributed system you have…

Linux vs Windows

Disclaimer

• This article is meant to give my personal opinion on the Windows and Linux operating systems, information in this text are based on my personal experience and how I understand things, I grew up with DOS and Windows but use Linux systems in my system…