The F# (pronounced “f sharp”) object-oriented functional programming language originated at Microsoft Research around 2004. It was designed by Don Syme, principal researcher at the company. The ...

One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not. Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a ...

Like it or not, data is an integral part of any application, even cool object-oriented ones. Everything stops at the persistence layer, where Java developers traditionally have had to write complex ...

When he's not talking about his company's hardware products for XML network processing, Eugene Kuznetsov, CTO at Cambridge, Mass.-based DataPower Technology Inc., is evangelizing for DOP. If you've ...

How about a "service oriented architecture" for data? Over at the Informatica Perspectives blogsite, I quoted from a presentation given by Madan Sheina, principal analyst within Ovum's Software ...

Because any database that does not support the SQL language is, by definition, a "NoSQL" database, some very different databases coexist under the NoSQL banner. Massively scalable data stores like ...

Two engine developers at Insomniac Games have left to join Unity to work on new projects relating to data-oriented programming. Mike Acton and Andreas Frederiksson, who were both working on ...