In Windows it's possible through something called the COM (Common Object Model?) and ActiveX to have programs that you write control other programs. For example, I can write a Java application that can open, modify, and save a Word document in Word (it starts up an instance of Word and then tells it what to do on my behalf ( Read more... )

I was at the Northern Virginia Software Symposium this weekend. Holy crap was it awesome. If Groovy can deliver on the things that were hinted at over the weekend... wow. But that's not what this post is about. This post it about a simple observation that I made while at the conference ( Read more... )