http://contekst.org/blog Everything depends on your context. Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:19:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bungle Air is the latest to take unusual steps to tackle rising operating costs and the recession. Bungle Air has rolled out it's new Air Use Fee which charges passengers for breathing on the aircraft. Passengers will be charged one cent per breath. A company spokesperson did clarify that the ... http://contekst.org/blog/?p=57 Twenty20 cricket is not really cricket, I propose renaming the sport Tricket. There are plenty of advantages to be had. Tricket is easier on the tongue than Twenty20 or even T20. Tricket fans will not have to join the staid and boring ranks of cricket fans. Fans of ... http://contekst.org/blog/?p=72 Erlang is a functional language, something that worries a long time OO programmer, especially when said programmer is starting a new project in it. My background is predominantly in OO languages that Alan Kay did not have in mind when he coined the phrase OO. I have used Smalltalk in ... http://contekst.org/blog/?p=55 Writing blog posts seems to require a certain emotional threshold to be crossed. No wonder micro-blogging is really popular, no real thresholds to cross there, visiting the restroom constitutes a post. Rank amateur bloggers like me have to expend quite a bit of effort in writing a post (even with ... http://contekst.org/blog/?p=52 Software reuse is one of the most fascinating topics there is. A source of many myths and the basis of many project management blunders. I came across this brilliant article by Peter Naur. The article touches on so many points near and dear to my heart. From the industrial era ... http://contekst.org/blog/?p=48 The first challenge - build a web site that can handle the load. http://contekst.org/blog/?p=47 I got a really creepy piece of mail today. What looks like a newspaper clipping arrives in a white envelope, my address hand written with a blue ball point pen. There is no return address on the envelope and is postmarked with a Research Triangle Region post office stamp. The ... http://contekst.org/blog/?p=45 Time sure flies fast, my blog is now a year old. It has been an interesting experience. Blogging can be easy one day and really hard on another day. I am still not sure what I should or shouldn't blog about. Take today for instance, I can either blog about ... http://contekst.org/blog/?p=44 Patrick's post on AppJet and my comment on their ability to make money made me dig up this old draft. Every software project you work on, whether it is in a startup or in a big company will eventually get asked the question - how will this make money ? ... http://contekst.org/blog/?p=29 I came across Nick Carr's offer to get an advance copy of his forthcoming book The Big Switch on his blog. The premise of the book is a very interesting topic for me, I work on enterprise software and there are big changes coming in this space. To get an ... http://contekst.org/blog/?p=41