Dare Obasanjo wrote a nice blog entry summarizing some key ideas from Marc Andreessen and Clayton Christensen. In his entry entitled Stupid Things Big Companies Do, he had a great exerpt that confirmed that companies need to diversify their business models, offered up a key irony, and ended by providing a possible solution: Continue reading "New Ideas -- For The Market Place, not the..." »
Saturday, October 6. 2007
New Ideas -- For The Market Place, not the Existing Business Model
Web 2.0 Site Development with Wt -- Dead Easy
I've written an earlier article about installing the Wt C++ Web Toolkit. I think it took longer to get all the bits and pieces properly arranged than it did me to cook up an example to check that it did what I thought it could do. Continue reading "Web 2.0 Site Development with Wt -- Dead Easy" »
Flash File Systems for Embedded Systems, and Otherwise
On Kernel Trap, I see they are discussing the use and maintenance of flash file systems. It seems there are lots of interesting gotchas when using flash file systems intensively. I'm wondering if that might be why the Seagate 32G flash drive is taking a while to get going in the market place. Continue reading "Flash File Systems for Embedded Systems, and..." »
Open Source Site of the Day -- OSSWAD: Open Source Savvy Web Application Developer
An OSSWAD, almost sounds like a forbidden word. Based upon Bob Zurek's column, there are Osswads, and then there are OSSWADs. Many developers of web sites 'out there' already use Open Source tools to get the job done. Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Perl, and PHP are commonly used tools by Osswads. Continue reading "Open Source Site of the Day -- OSSWAD: Open..." »
libpqxx: A PosgreSQL C++ Wrapper Library
I've looked at the C library for PostgreSQL and then wanted to see if there were any C++ wrappers for it. The most current appears to be libpqxx. On first blush, it looks very good. It if functional and robust. But... it has one draw back. The library insists on converting all binary stuff into text for passing back to the caller. For some applications, that can be a reasonable library simplifier.
But in this day and age of Templates and polymorphism, it seems to be a copout. Yes, if I had time, I'd probably try my hand at implementing some sort of 'variant' implementation to handle the various types of data that come back. Continue reading "libpqxx: A PosgreSQL C++ Wrapper Library" »