See part 1 for the background of this webcast or part 3 for my impressions after cutover.  Cnet also has an article on the last minute delays. Interesting tidbits from the live webcast.  I’ll be updating this post as I watch. 8:55 CST: They commented about all the traffic they are getting now through the [...]

The process of bringing Wolfram Alpha online is being webcast live right now.  It starts with a 5 minute intro along with some other pre-recorded clips.  Some interesting tidbits: it will be run on thousands of CPUs it is planned to be a 48 process – presumably shooting for being fully live Monday morning the [...]

There’s no shortage of articles on how TDD improves the design of new code.  That’s all well and good.  But what about legacy code? How it came up This weekend, I had occasion to make a few enhancements to the email sending project at JavaRanch.  The one that got me thinking about the design was [...]