Software Development has published their annual salary survey. Essentially, slow growth. The most interesting graphic to me is the one that shows trends to the question “If you're seeking a new job, what is the reason?” which shows a marked shift from passionate reasons (join a startup, new challenges) to …

My latest column for SD Times discusses Borland's recently announced initiatives...

My latest on programming the TabletPC is up on DevX. This one talks about putting ink on the World Wide Web.

DevX is paying me to write a couple of articles about “Pynk”: my Python interactive environment with ink-editing. That means I can spend time on it during the week in a guilt-free manner. Excellent!

Helping numb the sting of having predicted at this time last year that “Whidbey” would ship by the last day of 2004, the C# team today announced that C# will support “Edit & Continue” in Visual Studio 2005. Not having been a major VB guy, I can't say that I've missed …

Clearly, Bush's “hump“ is not placed specifically for the debate:

Compare and contrast:

I'm hosting a Wiki for IronPython, probably until something more official happens.

About an hour ago I was sitting at my dining room table, working on a piece of fiction and the setting sun got in my eyes. And I realized that I was sitting in my house in Hawaii, writing fiction, and watching the sun set over the Pacific. Which is …

My most recent SD Times column, Dynamic Do-Over, is now online. I argue that what makes “dynamic” languages compelling is not implicit vs. explicit typing, but an interactive console. I also drop some quotes from my talk with Microsoft's Jim Hugunin on the future of IronPython.

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Pondering this question was the great intellectual challenge of my youth. I …