Archive for November, 2006

Objects and Databases: State of the Union in 2006

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

Object Database Podcast has audio recordings of the panel “Objects and Databases: State of the Union in 2006″ at OOPSLA2006

Pannel members include:

  • William R. Cook (Moderator), University of Texas at Austin
  • Robert Greene, Versant
  • Patrick Linskey, BEA
  • Erik Meijer, Microsoft
  • Ken Rugg, Progress Software
  • Craig Russell, Sun Microsystems
  • Bob Walker, GemStone Systems
  • Christof Wittig, DB4objects

This is a wonderful discussion of object databases and object relational management layers.

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DivaScheme

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

My master thesis was written in Scheme, so I’ve spend a long of time with PLT Scheme in the last year. DrScheme is cool for teaching others scheme especially in classroom settings. The editor key bindings however are atrocious. Enter DivaScheme to the rescue.

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