Oracle to buy Sun.  Everybody Panic!


Oracle is turning into Computer Associates -- a holding company that feels like a kind of technology graveyard.  I don't see how this is good for Java or MySQL.


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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.


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Python and Perl compare/contrast


Thoughtful stuff.


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News -- Music, Python 3.0 and more music


A News Roundup: just some random stories.


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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.


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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.


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Classic / Ancient Bit of Marketing


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


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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?


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Tech Visionaries


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


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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.  


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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.


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Dynamic Languages In The News


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


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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.

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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.

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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?

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Apple and Flexibility


See e-Week this week for Lisa Vaas' thoughts, Is There Hope for Apple in the Enterprise? She's got a good point, but missed something important.

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Lessig's Powerpoint-Fu


More references to Lessig's Powerpoint style.

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Chat Bots, Poker Rooms, Who's really Human?


Here's the problem with AI: the intelligent software now has a personality -- and its irritating.

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