There's an interesting legal interpretation coming out of the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) around the Megaupload case, and the EFF has said this:

"The government maintains that Mr. Goodwin lost his property rights in his data by storing it on a cloud computing service. Specifically, the government argues that both the contract between Megaupload and Mr.

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I received an email from Dimitar Teykiyski a few days ago, asking if he could translate the "Vietnam of Computer Science" essay into Bulgarian, and no sooner had I replied in the affirmative than he sent me the link to it. If you're Bulgarian, enjoy. I'll try to make a few moments to put the link to the translation directly on the original blog post itself, but it'll take a little bit--I have a few other things higher up in the priority queue.

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There aren't many times that I cancel out of a conference (fortunately), so when I do I often feel a touch of guilt, even if I have to cancel for the best of reasons. (I'd like to think that if I have to cancel my appearance at a conference, it's only for the best of reasons, but obviously there may be others who disagree--I won't get into that.)

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As the calendar year comes to a close, it's time (it's well past time, in fact) that
I comment publicly on my obvious absence from the No Fluff, Just Stuff tour.

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Remember the SAT test and their ridiculous analogy questions? “Apple : Banana as Steak : ???”, where you have to figure out the relationship between the first pair in order to guess what the relationship in the second pair should be? (Of course, the SAT guys give you a multiple-choice answer, whereas I’m leaving it open to your interpretation.)

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Two things conspire to bring you this blog post.

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This
CNET report tells us what we’ve probably known for a few years now: in the hacker/securist
cyberwar, the hackers are winning. Or at the very least, making it pretty apparent
that the cybersecurity companies aren’t making much headway.

Notable quotes from the article:

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Eric Evans, a number of years ago, wrote a book on “Domain Driven Design”.

Around the same time, Martin Fowler coined the “Rich Domain Model” pattern.

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As discriminatory as this is going to sound, this one is for the old-timers. If you started programming after the turn of the milennium, I don’t know if you’re going to be able to follow the trend of this post—not out of any serious deficiency on your part, hardly that. But I think this is something only the old-timers are going to identify with. (And thus, do I alienate probably 80% of my readership, but so be it.)

Is it me, or is programming just less interesting today than it was two decades ago?

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Well, friends, another year has come and gone, and it's time for me to put my crystal ball into place and see what the upcoming year has for us. But, of course, in the long-standing tradition of these predictions, I also need to put my spectacles on (I did turn 40 last year, after all) and have a look at how well I did in this same activity twelve months ago.>

Let's see what unbelievable gobs of hooey I slung last year came even remotely to pass. For 2011, I said....

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Many of you have undoubtedly noticed that my blogging has dropped off precipitously
over the last half-year. The reason for that is multifold, ranging from the usual
“I just don’t seem to have the time for it” rationale, up through the realization
that I have a couple of regular (paid) columns (one with CoDe Magazine, one with MSDN)
that consume a lot of my ideas that would otherwise go into the blog.

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As so many of you know by now, Dennis Ritchie passed away yesterday. For so many of
you, he needs no introduction or explanation. But sometimes my family reads this blog,
and it is a fact that while they know who Steve Jobs was, they have no idea who Dennis
Ritchie was or why so many geeks mourn his passing.

And that is sad to me.

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Recently I got an email from Bohdan Zograf, who offered:

Hi!

I'm willing to translate publication located at http://blogs.tedneward.com/2006/06/26/The+Vietnam+Of+Computer+Science.aspx to
the Belorussian language (my mother tongue). What I'm asking for is your written permission,
so you don't mind after I'll post the translation to my blog.

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Back in June of last year, at TechEd 2010, the guys at DeepFriedBytes were
kind enough to offer me a podcasting stage from which to explain exactly what “multiparadigmatic”
meant, why I’d felt the need to turn it into a full-day tutorial at TechEd, and more
importantly, why .NET developers needed to know not only what it meant but how it
influences software design.

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Long-time readers of this blog know what’s coming next: it’s time for Ted to prognosticate
on what the coming year of tech will bring us. But I believe strongly in accountability,
even in my offered-up-for-free predictions, so one of the traditions of this space
is to go back and revisit my predictions from this time last year.

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