Slashdot/SDTimes: "Midori" Concepts Materialize In .NET (article [background on Midori])
“We’re seeing a gulf opening up right now between serial and parallel programming; only a small minority of rocket-scientist types can actually write code that works effectively in a parallel, multicore world” (Forrester Research principal analyst Jeffrey Hammond).
I’m tired of reading things that make it clear that all of my tech skills will all be obsolete within a few weeks. It seems that the half-life of information is getting shorter.
NoSQL, anyone? Before XML, there was pretty-much *only* SQL. I think I can still remember the difference between an inner and an outer join, and even clustered and default indexes. And I remember why the name C++ was considered humorous (hint: it really should have been ++C).
F#?
Update: Just to be clear, I’ve known what F# is for probably two years or more. I just thought I would never have to learn it and therefore it was fitting at the end of this post. I remember thinking it was funny when I overheard a college professor say that he had learned his last paradigm. Depending on how you count paradigms, that was probably five paradigms ago (common Web protocols, Java/C#, XML, Web Services, Parallelism, etc.). Now it’s not so funny anymore.
Mastering the Sitecore Fields collection
