Its in my head!!!

[NickFitz]

ASN.1 and CORBA: those that don't know them are doomed to re-implement them, badly.

Implement CORBA badly!?

Yes, even Sun managed that with the first couple of goes at RMI. Then they discovered the one true protocol: IIOP.

I think the point was that CORBA sucked so hard in the first place that even something that implemented it badly couldn't be any worse than CORBA was to start with.

I remember printing off the original document defining CORBA, more than ten years ago. As I read it I kept thinking "WTF?" but assuming that the people who wrote it were smarter than me, so it must be fail on my end that made it seem like a useless mess.

Now I know better: CORBA was a useless mess then, and it's a useless mess now.

Those who don't understand REST are doomed to re-implement it badly. All CORBA ever was, was a particularly well-defined demonstration of that fact.

EDIT: another good example of a heavily-over-specced technology that totally missed the point was SOAP (and all the associated nonsense) on which so much time and money was wasted. I assume there are people supporting this garbage even now, who maybe don't even realise that there was no need for any of it.

[OrangeHopper]

Hey Pogle, please educate.

What is "reverse pivoting"?

[Pogle]

Hey Pogle, please educate.

What is "reverse pivoting"?

Pivot is converting columns to rows
Reverse pivoting is converting rows to columns



Not sure if link will work -

https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/displa...everse%20Pivot

[Pogle]

I liked Soap. It was a good programme. It had Billy Crystal in it.

I used to like it too, but saw some repeats recently and felt it was best left as a memory

[OrangeHopper]

Thanks Pogle.

I'm just too old school. I just do things. Now you find that academics have invented terms to describe everything. A serious problem when it comes to interviews!

Which suite of BI tools do you specialise in?

[Pogle]

Thanks Pogle.

I'm just too old school. I just do things. Now you find that academics have invented terms to describe everything. A serious problem when it comes to interviews!

Which suite of BI tools do you specialise in?

Business Objects, have also done SSIS and a bit of Cognos, but exclusivly BOBJ these days.

[bobhope]

I think the point was that CORBA sucked so hard in the first place that even something that implemented it badly couldn't be any worse than CORBA was to start with.

I remember printing off the original document defining CORBA, more than ten years ago. As I read it I kept thinking "WTF?" but assuming that the people who wrote it were smarter than me, so it must be fail on my end that made it seem like a useless mess.

Now I know better: CORBA was a useless mess then, and it's a useless mess now.

Those who don't understand REST are doomed to re-implement it badly. All CORBA ever was, was a particularly well-defined demonstration of that fact.

EDIT: another good example of a heavily-over-specced technology that totally missed the point was SOAP (and all the associated nonsense) on which so much time and money was wasted. I assume there are people supporting this garbage even now, who maybe don't even realise that there was no need for any of it.

I remember being forced to use Orbix at work back in 96/97. I gave up when hello world took an hour to compile.

[Scary]

You're never going to sell something called "SOAP" to programmers

[DimPrawn]

anyone ever met women programmers who knew what they were doing ?

Beyond sticking the kettle on you mean?

[alreadypacked]

Beyond sticking the kettle on you mean?

You know you want it



CM will be along later