Chris Quenelle is a tools developer at Oracle Corp. He's worked on performance and debugging tools at Sun and Oracle for over 15 years. He reads comic books and science fiction, and has more tivos than he can keep track of.

 

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Twitter needs to be commoditized.

Twitter needs to be commoditized. What do I mean by that? I mean that the Twitter message streams need to interoperate with all my other message streams. Twitter is just a bunch of logical message streams from different people. I don’t really care if my messages are coming via twitter or RSS or IM.  Why?  I’ll [...]

Can one programming language work for everything?

There are all kinds of programming languages, and they all have their strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes you want fast prototyping, sometimes you want massive scalability, sometimes you want easy availability of a large library of preexisting code, or access to a specific framework.  Strong typing is useful, duck typing is useful, running on a virtual machine [...]