I must sent this to Mark, my sister's SO.
Also at Metal Mockery:
Killer Axes
Be a Metalhead
A new version of Duncan Grisby's CORBA ORB for C++ and Python, omniORB, has been released.
I saw Duncan speak at this year's Python UK conferance. He sold me on CORBA, I must say, but I haven't put it to use yet. I wouldn't be surprised if I used CORBA with Java first.
"VB is often the first language of the clueless". ;-)
Funny, but a bit harsh, I think. I know some good VB programmers.
Also, I agree with tk's post - I think that it's likely that good programmers want to get into open source, rather than that getting into open source will make you a good programmer.
Why? Because you are likely to be a good programmer if you are an enthusiast. And who gets into open source? Enthusiasts, that's who!
It's all bad, it all needs to stop.
A good introduction to Ant at O'Reilly onJava.
(Via Babu)
Java Tools For Extreme Programming finally turned up, after going to the wrong address at first. I'm not far into it yet - I'll write more when I am. Just going from the introduction, though, Ant looks wicked powerful. The source control (including VSS) and web application integration make it a must-learn.
Babu seems to share a lit of interests with me. I'll keep an eye on his blog in future.
Lots of good stuff on Python, programming, open source, computing, CSS, and even cricket!
Another blog of interest to Movable Type users is [the girlie matters] tips, tricks, and things to do to my site.
Anti-open source 'whitepaper' devastated (at The Register) blasts AdTI's Mocrosoft-funded anti-OSS paper.