Long Bets

Long Bets eh?

Ok. I'll play.

HDF5

Scala

IDEs driven MetaProgramming (XML representations of ASTs, XQuery over source code, XML processing pipelines for source-to-source refactoring)

Second Life

Helium 3:-)

The rush of tools to the hand

"The degree to which information technology can truly help problem X is inversely proportional to the enthusiasm with which the average young software developer approaches the problem." -- The rush of tools to the hand

Rubby dubby?

Take a close look at this : http://cillwifa.blogspot.com/2007/07/my-last-two-posts-were-motivated-by.html

What is it?

The web equivalent of rubby dubby?

The message is the message

"As ever in this industry, words play an important role in our collective misunderstandings. In this case the culprit is the word 'message'." -- The message is the message

Alliterate your laptop

Run Linux on a Lenovo

Jython 2.2 rc3

Get it here. You know you want to.

Wake up and smell the roses all ye JVM users

Business case for supporting jython.