Michi Henning

Position:

Managing Director, Triodia Technologies

Software Engineer, Canonical

Address:

Triodia Technologies Pty Ltd (ABN 31 082 773 448)

150 Sapphire St

Holland Park 4121

Brisbane, Australia

Contact:

Phone: +61 4 1118 2700

Email: michi@triodia.com

• API design
• Middleware, C++, C#, Java
• UNIX kernel, compilers, debuggers

• Distributed Programming with Ice

  Having worked on CORBA for quite a number of years, I decided in 2002 that I wanted to explore more advanced and elegant ways of developing distributed applications. The result is Ice (Internet Communications Engine), a new middleware that is more powerful and easier to use than CORBA. Distributed Programming with Ice is a tutorial and reference for this new middleware.

• A New Approach to Object-Oriented Middleware

  This article was published in Jan 2004 in IEEE Internet Computing; it describes Ice in a few pages and is a quick way to get acquainted with some of its features before delving into the documentation.

• Massively Multiplayer Middleware

  This article was published in Feb 2004 in ACM Queue Magazine; it describes how a massively multiplayer online game called Wish uses Ice for its communication needs, and how the scalability requirements of the game influenced the design of Ice.

• The Rise and Fall of CORBA

  This article was published in June 2006 in ACM Queue Magazine; it discusses some of the reasons why CORBA ultimately turned out to be a failure.

• API Design Matters

  This article was published in June 2007 in ACM Queue Magazine; it describes the current sad state of API design, suggests how to do better, and outlines cultural changes we need to make in order to get over the API malaise.

• Advanced CORBA Programming with C++

  

  Steve Vinoski and I have written a CORBA book called Advanced CORBA Programming with C++, published by Addison Wesley Longman.

  Reviews:

  A number of people were kind enough to publish reviews of the book. Please let us know if you come across a review that is not listed here.

  • Review by Cedric Beust, 2 April 1999
  • Review by Angelika Langer and Klaus Kreft, 22 June 1999 (C++ Zone)
  • Review by Rich Wellner, 12 July 1999 (Slashdot)
  • Review by Ira Pohl, 1 September 1999 (fatbrain.com)
  • Review by Steve Cornish, September 1999 (ACCU in C Vu 11-6)

  Sample Chapters:

  You can download chapter 6, which explains the basic C++ mapping, as well as chapter 17, which explains the DynAny mapping.

  Source Code:

  The source code for the book is available as a tar archive or a as a zip archive for download.

  Errata:

  An errata page for the book is available. Please check this list before you submit a bug report; it will save us a lot of needless double-checking.

  Acknowledgments:

  A number of our readers have provided us with feedback, comments, and constructive criticism. We have put together an acknowledgment page that lists everyone who contributed. Thank you for helping us to make this a better book!

  Easter Eggs:

  The book contains two Easter eggs. In April 1999, we held a competition, asking people to hunt for the eggs. Here are the results of the Easter Egg Hunt.

• Bibliography

  This bibliography includes a few other bits and pieces I have written over the years.

• African drumming, reading, cycling, cooking, sushi, wine

Frequently, people ask me how to pronounce my name. Quite a lot of speculation has been circulating around this topic, including musings about the relative "gutturalness" of the Scottish "ch" (as in "Loch") versus the Bavarian "ch" (as in "Kochtopf" ;-) To settle the argument once and for all, I decided to put up a wave file with myself speaking my name. I figured that this would be the definitive answer to how to pronounce my name, seeing (or, more accurately, hearing) that this is how I pronounce it myself.