Archive for December, 2008
The Multitenant Architecture of Force.com
by Paul O'Rorke on Dec.18, 2008, under Meeting Notes
Todd McKinnon, Senior Vice President for Software Development, Salesforce.com gave a presentation on Force.com’s architecture at the PARC Forum in Palo Alto on December 18th, 2008: ”The Force.com Multitenant Architecture: Understanding The Design Of Salesforce.com’s Internet Application Development Platform.” Click here for an abstract and bio. PARC posts movies of PARC Forum presentations at the PARC Forum archive. In the following, I will summarize some of more salient parts of the talk concentrating mostly on Salesforce’s advantages and innovations.
Functional Programming on the Rise
by Paul O'Rorke on Dec.07, 2008, under Reviews
According to Michael Swain, Editor at Large of Dr. Dobb’s Journal, a paradigm shift is underway and functional programming is “on the verge of becoming a must-have skill.” In the cover story of the January, 2009 issue of Dr. Dobb’s Journal, “It’s Time to Get Good at Functional Programming” Swain argues that functional programming is better suited to parallel computation than procedural and object-oriented programming and will be needed to more fully exploit multi-core and multi-CPU computer systems.
