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Absolutely I "honestly think a business is going to allow its private correspondence to be handled over the Internet ...?"

Only it's not "one of these programs" but a whole cornucopia of online office 'sweets' that are otherwise known Software as a Service or SaaS for short.

And they're doing it in huge ways, just look at the dominance SalesForce has in the area of CRM applications, or the online offerings by 37 Signals."

Fact is, the cross-platform, concurrent collaboration qualities of these SaaS based office tools are also making huge gains in moving the corporate world away from the office space and into the web space.

Case in point, everyone who doesn't have a gmail account, please raise your hand? Yeah, I didn't think so.

For tips on church websites, go here: Heal Your Church Web Site "Teaching, rebuking, correcting & training in righteous web design".

I think the problem with MovableTYpe isn't that they're charging $$, but rather their pricing architecture is too restrictive to the 3rd party programmers that made it happen ... ... and too much based upon the success of TypePad ...

More on this at:
What we can learn from MovableType's new pricing schedule ...

• Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist" plug-in;
• Simon Willison's Blacklisting Comment Spam;
• Scripty-goddess' Anti-Comment Spam Tactics;
• BurningBird's Comment Spam Quick Fix;
• Kalsey Consulting's ideas on dealing with Comment spam; or
• even my own observations and suggestions on the topic

The CNN article makes an intersting point good point
In the 1990s, it seemed all one had to do to buy a ticket to Easy Street was learn a programming language or how to manage corporate computer networks.

Okay, so I've learned a dozen ways to shoot my foot clean off -- and now this article asserts that my skills are just as easily found abroad as here locally.

But is that really what is happening. When I read the above quote, I wonder, how many QUALITY programmers are losing their jobs to concerns overseas?

Similarly, if this is the case, okay, so now what? The computers didn't disappear, nor is the need for software going to go away.

Do we work for less? Do we (dare I say it) unionize? Pass laws? Comments, please.

I always thought Sun made a mistake by not working with Microsoft when it came to Java -- especially with regards to Sun's . Some of the weaknesses I read in the article are exactly what Microsoft aimed at with their .NET architecture.

On a lighter note, "Mean Dean's Semi-Definitive Guide to Selecting a Programming Language" describes the process of shooting yourself in the foot with Java as "The gun fires just fine, but your foot can't figure out what the bullets are and ignores them."

Man, I'm barely done with Douglas Dunn's
Java Rules and now I gotta read this?

Actually, I'm glad to see more book son coding effectively as opposed to the dummy approach which is a sure way to Shoot yourself in the foot when the maintenance phase rolls around.

That said, one thing copiously missing from the review is whether or not the book covers J2EE at all -- which by and far requires some guidance in the developing the most effective Java applications.

Anyone else have a dog-eared 1st EDITION K&R C out there?

Liberal Arts? Really? Hmmm. I've got one of them valuable degrees. Had to go back and get a Master's in Computer Science it was so useful.

Perhaps I need to re-read an interview with Brian Kernighan

BTW, let's remember that Brian Kernighan is not a "high creator" of C. All he did was write the book with DMR. Here's an exact quote from the aforementioned interview:
"I can't comment on the 'worse', but remember, C is entirely the work of Dennis Ritchie"

Still, liberal arts? I guess so. I remember several times thinking "crap, this could be automated" ... That said will, as the TIMES article states, students doing "... projects like making their own Web pages and writing a few simple programs ..." give them anything more memorable than music appreciation gave business students twenty years ago?

Personally, I think K would do everyone a favor is he actually did send the artsy ones into the inner regions of the macines. Computers are likely to be an every day tool in their careers - but just that - a tool. The students will need to learn how to remain creative and original in spite of the conveniences of a computer automating the drudgery of composing notes, sentences, graphics, etc ...

Just the same way we need to keep teaching elemenatary school kids their times tables - in spite of the fact that they are now equipped with solar powered calculators.

On a lighter note, in a paper by by Dennis Ritchie detailing the history of Unix we get this juicy quote about K's wit ...it was not well into 1970 that Brian Kernighan suggested the name 'Unix,' in a somewhat treacherous pun on 'Multics'...

Of course, I can't let this go by without asking the all important question "What Would Bjarne Do?"

I've helped more than one Blogger move to MovableType. The trick is, moving the darned files and directories around so its useful.

Here's my supplement to the installation guide that anyone handy with SSH can use no sweat.

Sometimes I walk into ReadMeDoc.Com and ask - did a tree really have to die for that subject? Not to disparage the writer, but I have to categorize this one under the "DUH" section along with "MacIntosh for Dummies."

Blogging can be learned two ways. Visiting blogs. Its easy, there are tech blogs, there are pundit blogs, there are blogs for dogs and blogs4God. There are even nichy topical blogs, such as how to fix your church's web page.

Then there are a variety of free or next-to-nothing tools to get the job done. For the absolute newbie, there is Blogger.com. Once you've figured it out a bit, you can graduate to MovableType. And if you're really afraid of HTML, you can spend $49 and do it brain dead with Radio Userland. There are also a gazillion of choices inbetween.

The point is, blogging is simple. Its not more difficult than back in 1995 when we all posted our first kitty-kat pictures using notepad or VI. Writing good content for blogs is the hard part.

• Parsing RSS Files with XML::RSS
• Does SOAP Suck?

1. What are the compelling reasons to use Fortran in 2002?
   
2. Do they differ much from the use of Fortran in the past?
   
3. Is it the same language as the Fortran of prior decades?
   
4. Can someone summarize without the tech-eze the future of Fortran - especially in light of the aforementioned Fortran 2000 Committee Draft?
   

I was reading an intersting angle on Google's new toy over at HealYourChurchWebSite.com where the blogger suggests poking a stick in the eye of old-media by combining tools such as the Google API & SOAP::Lite with the Blogger API & some XML-RPC library.

Of course, my thought is considering the lengths Google goes to to thwart scrapes and scripts, I doubt such a tool is possible.