Most software developers have probably heard of and even had experiences with the object-relational impedance mismatch (often addressed with ORM tools), the object-XML impedance mismatch (often ...

Since the birth of Visual Basic and Access, Microsoft has burned through a series of data-access APIs. Until ADO.NET, none of these APIs was dominant for more than four years. But seven years after ...

I urge our readers to have a look at the “Vietnam of Computer Science” by Ted Neward, which compares the quagmire of the Vietnam War to the current quagmire that results from our attempts to blend ...