Just found this sort of report written by Josh Ledgard, Microsoft employee who attended LinuxWorld. It’s fun to read, and it illustrates some problems I have with the “open source community”.
What’s the Deal with J2EE 1.4?
“Finally someone said it!” he exclaims. “I couldn’t agree more. I’m an instructor specializing in taking ‘legacy’ programmers (which now includes PowerBuilder and Visual Basic) and retraining them in Java 2EE. The universal complaint is, why it is so difficult to accomplish even the most modest business tasks with Java? Java is getting more and more difficult to defend.”
David Zimmel agrees. “Try and build a simple fat client app in Java — NOT POSSIBLE. The complexities of JDBC, O-R mapping, AWT/Swing, etc, etc mean 1,000s of lines of code for even simple apps. It’s one step forward, two steps back.”
David Chappell writes about the economic value of Linux: “Who benefits from the rise of Linux? When I think of the Free Software Foundation-inspired work on the GNU libraries or of Linus Torvalds himself devoting his time to creating this new system, I doubt the goal was to increase the wealth of shareholders in large corporations. Yet this will be the biggest economic impact of the widespread adoption of Linux.”
Various
Tim’s Rants
Lambda the Ultimate
Sam Ruby
dive into mark
Glenn Vanderburg: Weblog: /Software/Languages
Jeremy Allaire’s Radio
StronglyTyped
iunknown.com - John Lam’s Software Development Weblog
Making it stick.
Jeffs Blog - daily musings, girl of the week, and more
wow . . . joseph’s weblog
Java
James Gosling: on the Java road…
.NET
Frans Bouma’s blog
Don Box’s Spoutlet
C# Stuff
.Net notes
Emitter
Sam Gentile’s Blog
Drew’s Blog
Sells Brothers — Chris’s Home on the Web
Brad Abrams
Rob Howard’s Blog
I wanted to put up a list of blogs I read so I exported my bookmarks from Mozilla. This exports them to HTML format with a lot of junk in the <a href=”…” lots of junk here> tags. I wanted to edit this out in EditPlus, but then I thought of the find command in Vim, so I started Vim. Moved to the ” afther the URL of one of the a href tags, typed df> and everything until the > was deleted, that saves some selecting time! (d = delete, f = find the following character, > ).
Ok this might not be of any use to you, who cares, it made me feel good about myself 
God, that’s breaking news. I had to post this:
I’ve learned three things from this performance:
