At its heart CQRS (Command Query Response Segregation) is a simple design philosophy highly suited to certain types of applications such as those dealing with reasonable size datasets, or event driven user interfaces. The aim is to separate the infrastructure code from the application logic, and also the create/update/delete (command) operations from the read (query) [...]
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Dennis Ritchie passes away… Paying tribute to the unsung heroes of technology
In recent days Steve Jobs’ sad death has been heavily covered by bloggers and the press, along with summaries of his life achievements. Another key figure in the development of the technology we all use everyday has also sadly passed away recently. Dennis Ritchie was best known for being the creator of the C programming [...]
meetingShed beta continues…
Time for a quick update on meetingShed and how the beta phase is going. New visitors to the site are on the up, this month seeing over a 50% increase in genuine traffic. The feedback received has been very useful and we are still looking for more so please keep it coming! That said the [...]
meetingShed – easy meeting scheduling with Google Calendar
Today is the beta launch of my hosted web app called meetingShed. It is a tool for scheduling and booking meetings (and other events) which uses people’s Google Calendar data to find acceptable meeting times. Some of the features include: Google Calendar integration Import Google Contacts Narrow down time slots and avoid double bookings based [...]
KMS-dev: development platform for logic programming
KMS-dev, a platform for integrating SWI-Prolog software components with web applications has now been released as Open Source Software. The platform uses a Java based web service interface to allow communication with an SWI-Prolog instance. Logic programming is a powerful programming paradigm, offering benefits of decreased development time and increased code readability and modifiability. It [...]
Vaadin web UI framework
Now that web applications require increasingly sophisticated user interfaces, nearly all web app developers have some experience of a user interface framework. Dynamic pages such as JSPs in Java EE and ASPs in .NET don’t allow for these richer user experiences. Delivering a range of features from simple text fields to full blown desktop – [...]
Taking Intelligent Architectures to the Cloud Expo
A week and a half ago I represented my software development organisation, Intelligent Architectures, at the combined Cloud, Linux and Open Source Expo. I was mainly promoting a project that has grown out of my final year university work. It was an interesting experience and a good opportunity for me to talk some people about this [...]
Exhibiting at Linux and Open Source Expo 2011 in London
In my post last week I wrote: I hope in the near future to bring exciting news about further developments in my project work Well next week (2-3rd February) I’ll be exhibiting my software project as Intelligent Architectures’ founder and chief developer. Find out more information about the expo here. This will provide a much [...]
Color Scheme Magic – Android colour scheme generator
I’m trying to get a bit more exposure for Color Scheme Magic as I think its a fairly useful app and there’s a lot I could do with it if I found there was a market. As such I thought I’d blog about it again with a bit more info and a few new screenshots [...]
Jobs worried by Android’s selling points?
Reported all over the web today, Steve Jobs launched into a fairly extensive argument for iPhone as a mobile platform over Android. Andy Rubin, Android chief, responded succinctly via twitter. Without getting into analysing the gory details of some of the statements made (I think this article at The Register sums up the pertinent points), [...]
An example of why we all NEED to tone down our techno-babble
Having just received this email: You are all very welcome to the following seminar if you are interested to multivariate probability models based on copulas for analyzing dependent data such as clustered and longitudinal overdispersed counts. Our method can also be regarded as a generalization of the GEE method that is popular in biostatistics I [...]
Android Market – the good, the bad and the ugly
Android Market in many ways is a great feature of the Android platform allowing users to download apps from a vast repository and taking care of the issues that would make it difficult for small-time developers to release their apps in any other way. I also think the Android Licensing system is a good move [...]
Android App: Organise yourself with Organisa Lite!
My new task management / to do list android app, Organisa Lite, has a few features I think some people will like: Organise all your notes in a unique tree-like hierarchy An innovative user interface where everything is managed from one screen – no clumsy flicking between multiple menus to get things done Put notes under [...]
Android To Do List – Organisa Lite v1.0 is out
Version 1.0 of my first Android App called Organisa Lite has been released onto the Android Market. The app is a to do list / task management tool with facilities to export and share workspaces as well as update the Android calendar with the important dates and notes added. For more information, see mobile.intelligent-architectures.co.uk
Oracle claim Google Android infringement of Java Intellectual Property
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-10961705 A worrying development that raises concerns about the way in which Oracle might proceed to treat technologies that use Java. Presumably they are objecting to usage of similar programming patterns (or android compatible versions of Java API classes) that exist in the Java language?
EU plan to make technology more ‘open’… Is legislating on technology realistic?
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/01/160239/EU-Plans-To-Make-Apple-Adobe-and-Others-Open-Up It seems the EU are interested in introducing legislation to make big tech companies open up their technologies by using standard formats and interoperable interfaces. On one hand this vision of the future seems like a bright one, but on the other there is a big question as to whether it is really realistic [...]
Virtual Machines – the open source way
Today I spent a few minutes checking out VirtualBox which is Sun/Oracle’s open source Virtual Machine (VM) system which is free for home use. Once downloaded you can visit http://virtualboxes.org for a large number of OS disk images which are relatively easily installed. I did have to edit the XML file it puts into your [...]
Google you’ve changed!
Interestingly Google have not only altered their look recently, they’ve changed some aspects of the core functionality too. Unfortunately for me this means some of my web-sites don’t seem to get listed as highly as they used to and my inevitable bias is telling me that this change is bad! In fact, I can’t help [...]
Apple really love a lock-in
Picture the scene – you’re at your favorite bar or pub, everyone’s cheery and the drinks they serve are superb. Last orders has been called and you don’t want the night to end: along comes the manager and guess what – he’s declaring a lock-in, fantastic! But then consider this rather different scenario – you’re in a [...]
OZ – the vastly different programming language
I finally took some time recently to inspect a language I’d been intrigued by for a while. That language is OZ, the implementation of which is called the Mozart Programming System. It is a self described multi-paradigm programming language. This concept both arouses curiosity and suspicion in me. My curiosity being that there is a possibility that [...]
