I’m now poking around some source code for a project that was built with a bunch of little beans. I understand the theory of a Java bean: by segregating your code into small and self-contained modules it makes development easier (the person developing the bean should only worry about just that bean), and it makes [...]
At Symantec, the first project I worked on was SESA: an event recording and warehousing architecture. At Yahoo, I’ve been put on a project to examine an existing event recording and warehousing architecture to add a new feature. What is old is new again. :-/
No, I haven’t quite drunk the koolade yet here at Yahoo. But I’m starting to get a better appreciation of the reality verses the mystique of Google and of Yahoo and of other search engines. Basically it boils down to this: in the group I’m in, we sell advertising. Perhaps 25 years ago when I [...]