The Cave

New museum in Kentucky. Sigh. But at least one good thing came of it – this post: Oh, faith can be a wonderful thing. As long as people don’t make a religion out of it…

Lots of tips here especially in the comments.

No matter how ‘urgent it may be…

Sigh. Maybe JSF2 will fix matters.

“It’s like a cat with its head in NYC and its tail in SF. Stroke its bum in SF and it purrs on Broadway. Except there’s no cat”

Dear god: The other big change is a complete rework of character set handling; only Emacs would come with a news item reading “The Emacs character set is now a superset of Unicode. (It has about four times the code space, which should be plenty).”

Library of various C++ classes (MD5, iconv, dlopen, CGI, more).

Another update, mostly bugfixs. Still the king at what it does. Highly recommended.

C++ library for BSD-style socket programming.

Cute. Alas, Unix only.

Cringely still stands by his 150,000 pink slip estimate: IBM’s mysterious LEAN program, which the company says I mischaracterize but then won’t explain specifically what I got wrong, is global. LEAN involves the restructuring of IBM’s global workforce to achieve certain unstated goals, most likely centered on profitability, with the goal of regaining that 37 [...]

So Microsoft just dialed back the hype-o-meter for Viridian, their virtualization offering next year. It’s now looking like a strong competitor for VMware – 1.0. No dynamic hardware changes. No live migration. So what was the point of the 6 month delay? Oh. Right. Vaporware isn’t announced in a day. But let others sum it [...]

ARS Technica’s ‘Hot Rod’ (midrange) box, as of March’2007. I’ve got a sweet monitor; also cut keyboard and mouse and it’s only $1,200 for a seriously loaded box. I’m tempted…

DDJ reviews AJAX frameworks: Dojo 0.3.1, Prototype and Scriptaculous 1.4, Direct Web Reporting 1.0, Yahoo! User Interface Library 0.11.1 and Google Web Toolkit 1.0. The Slashdot article has interesting posts, at least as informative as TFA. For instance, DDJ missed one worth mentioning: jQuery.

Interesting little utility. Hotkeys and more. Check out the site for a better description. Just started to play with it, but looks handy.

Sounds like the Ruby runtime has, all in all, serious issues. Personally, I’ve never seen such issues with Python. Say what you will, by at least CPython has had a pretty seriously stable and reliable runtime over the years. Which is a good thing. I’ve lived in less-than-reliable worlds before, unable to truly trust the [...]

IBM’s laying off 150,000 people (half IBM Global Services) by year-end. Also cutting unprofitable projects (boy, are those customers going to love getting that Dear John letter. Great opportunity for HP, Sun and others… – doubtless not all will feel all Happy Happy Joy Joy about IBM after the ‘Just Friends’ treatment). And it doesn’t [...]

Snicker.