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Zef Hemel in Zef.me

Sep 1, 2004

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.

Zef Hemel in Zef.me

Sep 17, 2004

Organizational Behaviour

I started with the System and Software Engineering master at our university. What’s nice about a master here is that you get to freely choose one of the classes you take, every block (two blocks in a semester, two semesters in a year -> 4 blocks in a year). After looking around I…

Zef Hemel in Zef.me

Sep 8, 2004

Audio books and content

When I was about 9 I read a science fiction book. I can’t really remember what it was about, but what I do remember is that some guy was reading. Another walked by and wondered what it was he was reading. It was a book. “Wow, it has been ages since I’ve seen one of those. Why don’t you…

Zef Hemel in Zef.me

Sep 19, 2004

Concurrency

When you’re developing applications you sometimes might want to do multiple things at the same time. For example, while you do some kind of batch processing in the background, your GUI should still respond. You can do this using threads. Threads a lightweight processes that run concurrently. Threads can be…

Zef Hemel in Zef.me

Sep 12, 2004

The Church of XML

Have you ever felt that empty feeling inside, the feeling that something in your life is missing? If you have, then you probably don’t know about XML yet. XML is like all your dreams fulfilled; everything that seemed unrelated, coming together. See the light, taste the honey, enter the world of…

Zef Hemel in Zef.me

Sep 24, 2004

More On Identifying Programming Talent

Alright, obviously, I have been Scobleized. The articled I published two days ago, entitled Why Microsoft Can’t Hire Great Programmers hit a string. Robert Scoble noticed the article and posted a link + response on his weblog. As Robert has thousands of readers…

Zef Hemel in Zef.me

Sep 21, 2004

Skype And Firewalls

Alright, you must either have been living underground or even worse: have been offline for over a year, if you haven’t heard of Skype by now. Skype is software to call via the internet. That’s nothing new, though. You could do that before. The major difference that Skype makes is the…

Zef Hemel in Zef.me

Sep 3, 2004

A Better Java

Imagine you’re Sun “the network is the computer” Microsystems. You’ve build your Java empire for quite a while without real comparable competition. And best of all: Microsoft has been more or less on your side (by launching J++ and including the fastest JVM in Windows, the Microsoft JVM). But then what…

Zef Hemel in Zef.me

Sep 25, 2004

Tools, Tools, Tools!

When I walk through the computer lab of our university, I often see students using editors like Pico and other plain notepad-like editors writing C and Java code. “Why don’t you just use an editor that at least supports colour highlighting, or even a Java IDE like Eclipse?” — “Nah, real…

Zef Hemel in Zef.me

Sep 18, 2004

RSS

Alright, my second shot at writing a little about RSS. The previous attempt resulted in “The Church of XML”:http://www.zefhemel.com/archives/2004/09/12/the-church-of-xml. I’ll briefly describe what RSS is and why it is useful. I won’t talk about the internals of the RSS XML format, simply because they’re too boring.

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