Technology News¶

Feb 19, 2009: Python and .NET News

Larry O’Brien’s Windows and .NET watch (in the SD Times) focuses on Python. Not sure if it’s a good thing or a bad thing.

Feb 02, 2009: Python and Perl compare/contrast

Thoughtful stuff.

Jan 14, 2009: News – Music, Python 3.0 and more music

A News Roundup: just some random stories.

Jan 13, 2009: ROI - Buzzword Bingo

I was sent a link to a Business Week article on “Return on Insight” a kind of pun on “Return on Investment”. The article isn’t too helpful, but it does have some clever quotes.

Nov 08, 2008: Python 3.0

Saw an entry in SD Times announcing the Python 3.0 change. Time to start alerting my management to our upgrade plans.

Oct 25, 2008: Classic / Ancient Bit of Marketing

I just uncovered my copy of the Apple 32 Developer’s Handbook. Yours free for the asking.

Aug 20, 2008: What is Perception? What is Reality? It seems to depend on your sponsors.

Vista’s failure is often characterized as “negative perception of the Windows Vista operating system is growing”. Isn’t that just failure reworded to not include “FAIL”? Why sugar-coat it?

Jun 06, 2008: Tech Visionaries

Christopher Null lists top 50 tech visionaries in a PC World article. My personal hero makes the cut.

Mar 12, 2008: Censorship - who wins?

GoDaddy shuts a site down because – uhh – well – it’s hard to say. GoDaddy loses the revenue, so does the site that was shut down. Who’s the winner here? The content could be viewed as politically challenging, but it sure looked like citizen oversight of government operations.

Mar 11, 2008: Al Gore’s Internet? Wait – What?

Someone mentioned Al Gore’s Internet the other day. Ooooh that irritates me. Especially when I consider the alternative to a government-funded open source Internet.

Aug 03, 2007: Dynamic Languages In The News

News slowly trickling in: Dynamic Languages are Growing. This feels like fark.com with a label of [Obvious].

May 03, 2007: The Web Mart Design Pattern.

See the Communications of the ACM , Volume 50, Issue 4 (April 2007), pages 55 - 61, “Designing data-intensive web applications for content accessibility using web marts ”. It is a very, very cool design pattern for web content presentation. It applies directly to structuring complex content in Django.

Aug 29, 2006: Dynamic Languages and Corporate IT’s Objections

eWeek has a nice article, “Race Is On to Woo Next-Gen Developer ”, where Darryl K. Taft covers the current trends on dynamic programming nicely. In particular it provides some support for a couple of potential corporate IT direction-changes.

Aug 23, 2006: Deprecating Dynamic Languages (or Scripting Systems)

See Allen Holub’s Java Watch column in the SD Times , The Next Big Thing . Java’s been around a decade; long enough to be widely used, standardized and obsolete. So what’s next?