Microsoft’s Visual Studio .NET has introduced many new concepts to the Visual Studio developer, including the Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL) with runtime compilation, garbage collection, ...

The industry has been so focused on solving the integration problem that it has ignored the failure mode problem.

I was recently called onto a project to add features to existing applications. To me, this is one of the most challenging aspects of being a developer because the existing application strips away much ...

Data is critical to businesses of all sizes, and the idea of being able to store it anywhere and access it everywhere is immensely appealing. This is the promise of global file systems (GFS), which ...