http://zeroc.com/blogs/michi Michi Henning weblog Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:00:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have been in the middleware game for fifteen years now and, over these years, have had contact with many potential customers. A potential customer, having made the decision to use middleware, is faced with the question "which one?" In an attempt to exercise due diligence and protect their investment, ... http://zeroc.com/blogs/michi/2009/02/26/choosing-middleware/ It's been quite a while since my last post. The reason (as you might have guessed) is that we've been very busy with Ice Touch, which we released last week. If you haven't seen it yet, I suggest that you head over and take a look. Ice Touch really is quite ... http://zeroc.com/blogs/michi/2008/10/19/the-early-bird/ Jose and Mark have just written a second article on our chat demo. This installment shows you how to build GUI clients for the chat demo in C# and Java, as well as how to build web-based clients with PHP or Silverlight. The articles don't just explain how to build a chat ... http://zeroc.com/blogs/michi/2008/09/04/lets-chat-part-2/ Before I delve further into the merits and demerits of RPC, SOAP, REST, and so on, I want to take a look back at the history of distributed computing. Not because I'm a connoisseur of history, but because that history has shaped much of the technology we see today and, ... http://zeroc.com/blogs/michi/2008/07/31/the-rest-is-history/ Steve Vinoski has been busy trying to convince the world at large that RPC is "fundamentally flawed". I think it is interesting to take a look at RPC and see what those fundamental flaws are (and whether there are flaws, for that matter). Doing this will definitely take more than ... http://zeroc.com/blogs/michi/2008/07/22/a-matter-of-definition/ Update: I just checked the new iPhone OS 3.0 and, sadly, none of the problems have been addressed, despite having submitted defect reports to Apple. Very disappointing, indeed… I am one of the people who were lucky enough to get an Apple iPhone 3G on its release day. Prior to the iPhone, ... http://zeroc.com/blogs/michi/2008/07/21/the-apple-of-my-i/ A Note on Distributing Computing is among the most widely quoted papers on distributed computing. While I agree with much of what Jim Waldo et al. wrote, there is quite a bit I find myself disagreeing with, so here is "Another Note on Distributed Computing", to iron out a few ... http://zeroc.com/blogs/michi/2008/07/17/another-note-on-distributed-computing/ This post marks the end of one era, and the beginning of another. What is ending is our newsletter Connections. After some navel gazing, we decided that the newsletter format was too inflexible as an effective communication tool. Besides creating the content for the newsletter, quite a bit of work ... http://zeroc.com/blogs/michi/2008/07/14/like-to-chat/