JPL video comparing frameworks that compete with J2EE: Rails, Zope(Plone), TurboGears and Django.

[ Very cool. I have used and am using TurboGears, but may try out Zope again on some of my small one-offs because it looks fast enough. -Dan ]

JPL's better-web-app.mov (video/quicktime Object)

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Let me just note, I fucking hate the Rational Tools. I find them to be either minimally functional or so full of "features" that they're obtuse and are universally ultra-unfriendly. I'm 90% sure that's purposeful so that they can sell you expensive training / consulting.

I'm starting a new job next month that apparently extensively uses Rational Rose. I haven't used it before, and that wasn't the great appeal of the job itself... but hopefully it won't be too bad. It is a SCRUM shop with my project manager being someone who teaches software engineering methodology at CMU as a side thing, so if anything it will be a great contrast to the grad-school research programming I've been doing most recently.

DevShop got very nice reviews on TechCrunch.

RE: Uncommon Sense (for Software)

McNealy it seems to me, is ultimately a product of California Uber Alles thinking, one of the cadre of executives that evidently believe the rest of the world will fall into line with the US West Coast. The only real innovation happens in the USA. The only real innovation happens at Stanford... But the global economy is not a clone of California, Starbucks notwithstanding.

When the boat nearly sunk, Europe bailed it out. Why replace Sun products partly for fashion reasons? Europeans are far less likely to throw out IT infrastructures because of what the chatterati are saying. That is what the aggressive conservatives at the major financial institutions on the US Eastern seaboard do...

James Governor's MonkChips: A Change at Sun: From Exclude to Include. On Jonathan Schwartz as CEO

Will Stephens (a reader) pointed me to this story which says that Crazy made it to #1 in the UK charts without ever being released in physical form. Downloads alone made it #1. That's never happened before. But it will again, and again, and again.

A VC: Gnarls Barkley

Hitachi Maxell has announced development of a small 10W class hydrogen fuel cell that runs on a reaction of water and aluminum. They claim to have made improvements in fuel cell technology by developing an aluminum conversion process that requires less aluminum. The company hopes to use reclaimed aluminum in the future to make the technology even more enviro-friendly.

Maxell Announces Fuel Cell :: Street Tech :: hardware beyond the hype

I've been arguing for some time that companies underestimate how they are already de facto media companies and broadcasters, whether in real-world locations or via their websites. Firms just can't get their heads around seeing themselves that way.

Everyone but Wal-Mart, that is

Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed: Wal-mart: We Are the Media

Recently I wrote a series of posts about Microcontent Design, using BBC Backstage as the main case study. As a segue from that theme, one of the product types I've been looking at recently is Microcontent Aggregators. I define a Microcontent Aggregator as a service that aggregates microcontent about a person (usually via RSS) and displays it on a new page/site for users to view in aggregate. Usually such services also have external RSS feeds, so that users may subscribe to an aggregate feed for a person.

Read/WriteWeb: Microcontent Aggregators - 43Things

How you place your squigglies won’t affect users in the slightest. But attention to internal code layout details implies that you’re equally attentive to the external details.

Uncommon Sense (for Software)

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In "The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett and George Soros," its author outlines their 23 "winning" investment habits - tactics and strategies that he believes other investors can learn from. Many of these "habits" seem to fly in the face of conventional Wall Street wisdom

The Big Picture: Soros & Buffett Investment Rules