This is a new blog on the first day of the year starting a new decade. The world has changed in the last 10 years and the software development we did in 1999 is much different than the software development we did in 2009. In the same spirit, the next 10 years will see dramatic changes in the way we write software and the platforms that software runs on. Moving from compilers that targeted operating systems to targeting virtual machine platforms as mainstream software engineering was a dramatic change, ......