I’ve become a zealot about using Rule-based engineering as an approach to creating highly agile applications. The guy that taught me most about rules-based programming is Andy Seidl, my co-founder at MyST Technology Partners.
Rule-based XSLT
Andy started us on the rules-based track about three years ago while we were trying to develop a new type of [...]

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If you’ve seen references to Network Address Translation (NAT) but never really dug into what it does and why we have it, this 411 installment is for you.
Old School IP
Once upon a time, 4.3 billion possible IP addresses was enough for everybody. Oh, those days were so simple, weren’t they? Now [...]

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I’m writing a series for Wired.com about neurotechnology and my son. Here’s an excerpt:
What if your computer missed your keystrokes whenever it was playing music? Or what if it couldn’t read from the hard drive when a picture was on the screen? Or maybe every time the CD tray opened, a random window would [...]

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