This is a short article on the Community Created Content and the problems associated with the ownership and modeling of such content.
In the real world, children survive their parents – but, in computing, everything is conter-intuitive. Parents are supposed to outlive their “children” in computer science (remember all those tree data structures, and forking unix processes, orphaned processes and so on). This is the problem when it comes to the content. How do we deal with “orphaned” content – meaning, if the software (problem-two), or the user (in the problem-one) who created some data+content no longer exists, what happens to that content? I think this is an important content management challenge that we have to solve quickly in the coming years.
Language interfaces is not at all un-common in software systems. In fact, the power of the digital computer is its interface – a programming language. Because of language is the primary interface to the machine, we are able to build successive layers of abstraction on top of the primitive computing elements of the machine and offer very rich modeling power and configurability. In this paper, we examine some architectural techniques to design embeddable little languages as primary interfaces of large distributed systems.
First in the series of articles on Semantics of Software Architecture. We describe Architecture as a problem solving process and the chief problem is to find a transformation to convert a domain problem into a computing problem. In these series of articles, I try and describe a technique to represent such body of knowledge – not as a methodology, but as an interpretative metaphor of problem solving.
True is the old adage that education and health care are two businesses that do not go out of fashion. India has certainly become a sought after destination for medical tourism, even while health care accessibility is still a challenge for the common man if India. Education – the industry we are focusing on – [...]
This Article describes the nature of enterprise applications from one management point of view, and it describes the issues and challenges that need to be considered when designing an enterprise application management framework.
In this post, I examine a possible solution to the Peak Oil question, and use this as a basis to evaluate the current economic models.
In order to investigate the current predicament of mankind, we have to first examine – what is the real progress we achieved from an evolutionary stand point, and what are some [...]
In these series of articles on Creativity and Design, my intention is to explore if there is a “formal” model of creativity. I am not interested in the psychological aspects of creativity, how it works and so on. The Psychology of discovery and invention is wonderfully described by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his classic book called [...]
In this article, I describe the process of problem solving and the heuristic method that is involved using Music as an analogy. The relationship between Music and Sound is very similar to the relationship between creative problem solving and construction of an artifact that conforms to strict rules of physics and engineering.
In the last post, [...]
This article is a short guide on how to survive as a freelancer.It is not easy to be a freelancer. Most freelancers want work, not a job – which makes it tough for them in the long run. They want freedom, they value competency, they think they bring real expertise to the table and want to continue to enjoy the challenge of work.
In this article, We describe some personal experiences in Freelancing and a particular culture influences our human relationships. Knowing this would help us avoid some general pitfalls and unnecessary heartaches.
This article is about the privacy and security issues in the emerging collaborative and semantic web. Being a perspective essay – it describes the nature of web2.0, social computing, the evolving semantic web and what it means from a security and privacy of individuals. The major difference between the first generation Web and the third generation web is in the way objects are connected together – as an example, in many social networking sites, we not only advertise about ourselves, but also tell the world who our friends are. In a semantic web, we go one step further – we not only tell who our friends are, but we also describe how we came to know them.
First – my apologies to all the regular visitors of my blog. Last two weeks have been very hectic. I made a promise to myself that I would upload at least two articles every week. Promises are like spoilt children – as soon as you make a promise – somehow, it brings along situations with [...]
A mentor must wait for the right time to strike. It always presents itself one way or the other. In the course of the three years, three such incidents happened, which over a period of years guided much of my practice in developing good systems on time.
This is a short article on the Community Created Content and the problems associated with the ownership and modeling of such content.
In the real world, children survive their parents – but, in computing, everything is conter-intuitive. Parents are supposed to outlive their “children” in computer science (remember all those tree data structures, and forking unix processes, orphaned processes and so on). This is the problem when it comes to the content. How do we deal with “orphaned” content – meaning, if the software (problem-two), or the user (in the problem-one) who created some data+content no longer exists, what happens to that content? I think this is an important content management challenge that we have to solve quickly in the coming years.
Language interfaces is not at all un-common in software systems. In fact, the power of the digital computer is its interface – a programming language. Because of language is the primary interface to the machine, we are able to build successive layers of abstraction on top of the primitive computing elements of the machine and offer very rich modeling power and configurability. In this paper, we examine some architectural techniques to design embeddable little languages as primary interfaces of large distributed systems.
First in the series of articles on Semantics of Software Architecture. We describe Architecture as a problem solving process and the chief problem is to find a transformation to convert a domain problem into a computing problem. In these series of articles, I try and describe a technique to represent such body of knowledge – not as a methodology, but as an interpretative metaphor of problem solving.
A mentor must wait for the right time to strike. It always presents itself one way or the other. In the course of the three years, three such incidents happened, which over a period of years guided much of my practice in developing good systems on time.
Most of the computing science and the consequent business models are the creations of enlightened hippies. They were the only people capable of such subtlety of thought and action. They even managed to get vast amounts of funding from the very same people that they resolved to dethrone them from their seats of power!! Understanding this is the key to how service oriented computing works and why object oriented technologies are so difficult to master. This article is a look into the shaman culture in computing and its contribution to object technologies and many programming paradigms.
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