Distributed horsepower. What happens when you take the processing power and move it from the central unit to the edges? What happens when you distribute the workload across more units? You get a Mini Cooper that does 0-60 in 4.5 seconds, stops on a dime and can get 932 miles on one tank of gas.
Digging with Dabble. Amazing presentation of what DabbleDB can do. It reminds me of MS Access, except Access had a problem with slightly big databases, while DabbleDB can slurp the Web like nobody’s business.
Indeed? I found this link on DZone today. It’s an Indeed job trend chart indicating there’s clearly no interest in Ruby programmers. Java and C++ are far more popular (Java ahead of C++). Curiously, I tried searching for J2EE, .Net and Rails, and ended up with a quite different graph. Ruby apparently, is not nearly as popular as Rails, and nowhere near Perl. (Salaries, however, are dictated by demand and by supply, so they tell a different story)
The best programming language ever.
This just in. Half of IT managers admit to hating their users. The other half were in the pub. But that’s OK, because users don’t like IT managers either.