William Cook's Fusings

I was on the review panel for 3 Day Startup , an entrepreneurial experience for students here at UT Austin. It is co-organized by one of my ...

Despite being jaded and feeling that you've seen it all before, its important to keep your sense of wonder at the possibility of seeing ...

I've been working with Jose Falcon, undergrad here at UT, for almost a year on this crazy idea for an approach to syntax that combines a...

I have participated in this thread about LINQ for Java . There are some very good comments. I don't think that LINQ is perfect, but it i...

I have been working with model-driven software development for many years, but I haven't published anything on it yet. At Allegis , we d...

I've been using Scheme recently, and have been complaining to everybody about the lack of any good visual debugger for the language. Dr...

I hunted around for a while and found out a good way to embed a news feed (RSS) in a web page. You use Google Reader to convert the feed int...

I just got back from the Middle Earth Programming Language seminar (MEPLS) in Abilene TX. Where I gave a talk on Strategic Programming by m...

Java Object Persistence: State of the Union PART II Published ODBMS.ORG, a vendor-independent non-profit group of high-profile software expe...

Influencing another researcher or company is about the best that can happen to a piece of academic research. The proposal in my paper on Saf...

The second Dynamic Languages Symposium at OOPSLA 2006 was a great success. There were 193 registered participants. To put this into context,...

The panel on Objects and Databases: State of the Union in 2006 went pretty well. There was a lot of talk about who owns the data. The O/R cr...

Well, OOPSLA was amazing this year! But I'm biased, since I was program chair. I had fun meeting everybody who came from around the worl...

My paper with Janel Barfield on Web Services versus Distributed Objects: A Case Study of Performance and Interface Design was selected as t...

OOPSLA 2006 will be held October 22-26 in historic Portland, Oregon (USA). You can learn all about OOPSLA at www.oopsla.org , and/or downloa...

I told my brother that Second Life is going to replace the current web in 10 to 15 years. There are many potential problems on the way, but ...

I just returned from ECOOP. It was great to reconnect with so many researchers from around the world. I saw Walter Olthoff for the first tim...

It really bugs me when people say " technology-X was not adopted because 1) there is a conspiracy against it, or 2) corporations are t...

I recently got into a little argument with Michi Henning about his article Rise and fall of CORBA . This is too bad, because we mostly agree...

I posted to a thread on Javalobby: Language Wars Redux - the imminent approach of LINQ (see page 4). Most people just don't seem to und...