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Comment: Re:Frameworks (Score 1) 623

by DefConOne on Sunday March 07 2010, @12:41PM (#31390914) Attached to: Whatever Happened To Programming?

Frameworks can be your friend, but there are a number of situations in which you'll need to become "more than friends". It seems like there is a point in every project in which one of the programmers ends up digging into framework code to figure out a problem -- usually a performance problem -- which to some degree defeats the "time-savings" justification for using a framework in the first place.

'Cybot' Development For Network Defense 51

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday February 21 2009, @01:02AM
from the paging-bill-adama-to-oak-ridge dept.

lwbrown writes with this excerpt from Government Computer News about a concept being explored at Oak Ridge National Laboratory: "UNTAME is the product of a long-term program by the division's Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Group to develop futuristic security functionality for increasingly large, complex environments. The cybots differ from traditional software agents in that they form a collective and are aware of the condition and activities of other cybots in the collective. 'You give it a mission and tools to work with, such as mobility and intrusion sensors, and it uses those tools and cooperates with other cybots to accomplish the mission," said Lawrence MacIntyre, one of the project's developers.'"