The Windows and .NET watch column, February 1, was Python: arbitrarily interesting . For certain classes of "interesting" problems, where interesting is defined arbitrarily, Python is an easy way to tackle those interesting problems.

It picks out a few specific areas of IronPython application, which is good and bad. Good because …

Check out Binstock's January 15th column in Software Development Times, Integration Watch: The End of PERL?

Very compelling case, generally free of the kind of subjective rants that often characterize analysis of PERL's viability. I tell people to drop PERL all the time, but I don't often have as clear …

Thing 1 -- My son's album is out today. You can visit the Siva Noir site. You can buy from their site or iTunes. Samples are available on their MySpace page.

Thing 2 -- More updates on Python 3.0. The story is not on the SD Times web site yet, but …

Here's the article, "The New Focus Group: The Collective ".

The point is that simplistic Return on Investment misses the point. The point is that marketing models aren't simple linear relationships between promotional dollars and sales.

I was all excited about the value of innovation and the source of innovation .

The …

See PC World, "Top 50 Tech Visionaries ."

I spent some quality time reading RFC's once upon a time. It was the mid '90's and a client had a desktop application that depended on embedded FTP client that submitted batch jobs to a mainframe.

[Note. It was the 90's. Desktop computing …