Amazon CloudFront is a pay-as-you-go global content delivery network (or CDN) that provides high availability and high performance serving of static assets. Basically, it means users have to wait less time to view your web app regardless of their location on the globe.

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With my most recent blog post, some of you were a little less than impressed with
the idea of using types, One reader, in particular, suggested that:

Your encapsulating type aliases don't... encapsulate :|

Actually, it kinda does. But not in the way you described.

using X = qualified.type;

merely introduces an alias, and will consequently (a) not prevent assignment of

a FirstName to a LastName (b) not even be detectible as such from CLI metadata

(i.e. using reflection).

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Recently, having been teaching C# for a bit at Bellevue College, I’ve been thinking
more and more about the way in which we approach building object-oriented programs,
and particularly the debates around types and type systems.

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There have been numerous Java-related blog posts in recent days and I reference and summarize four of them here.

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My second article in IBM developerWorks’ series Mobile for the Masses is out! This article covers how to go about designing a mobile interface from the standpoint of usability via gestures. In essence, eschew buttons and prefer the swipe!

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