Abstracting Architecture

Finally, getting down to business. Software development has always been about raising the level of abstraction.

Wires and components made way for assemblers and linkers, which were replaced by languages with rich syntax and semantics, and now it's time to think about architecture as reusable and pluggable bits.

Folklore has consensus that it's a lot easier to represent business ideas in logical artifacts removed and unaffected by the subterranean implementation.

This is exactly what we seek to achieve by compiling a Platform Independent Model (PIM) into a Platform Specific Model (PSM) using a model compiler.

Jungle Trek

That's the title of the current daily story featuring the Phantom. This is a totally different story from offerings in recent times... we see again a focus on the family side of the Phantom.

Comicdom's first masked superhero was human long before Marvel's legendary sensitization of long-underwear folks!

Tony DePaul's scripting and Paul Ryan's artwork prove that a superhero story is not just about bashing up the bad guys.

And this is where the Phantom traditionally differs from most other wide-screen carnage oriented superhero stories... we can actually take something valuable from the story!

Reading Lists... in Pictures

The fashionable books of the moment notwithstanding, jejune reading's the rage all over again. Fantasy? Probably. Escapist? Most definitely.

So what's my prescription for a must read? The Singh Brotherhood, the storyline created by Lee Falk and Ray Moore, and heralding the advent of the family superhero (in all senses of the word), The Phantom.

To know more about this wonderful fictional character, just pop over to The Phantom's Home on the Internet by Bryan Shedden.