["]{.863094020-15062003}Dumbing down the language by not providing more powerfulexpressions is a way of promoting to a wider audience. However, is it the only way of[ ]{.863094020-15062003}supporting[ ]{.863094020-15062003}communites?["]{.863094020-15062003} (From Carlos Perez's Weblog) [via ]{.863094020-15062003}[Artima Weblogs]

[Carlos is talking about Java, and a comment by Gilad Bracha …

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Getting ASP.NET to work in Radio Userland-generated pages.

http://radio.userland.com/stories/storyReader\$8979 tells you how to change the file extension to .aspx

The problem is that Radio Userland generates pages on the client-side, which are then FTP'ed up to the site, but you can't configure Radio …

"He asked me what I had learned [in a five-month initial experience with Agile Programming]. Wow, so many things. I learned...

• that without a full-time Coach experienced in ATG, TDD was destined for failure.
• that architects need to be in the trenches on Agile projects.
• that pair programming and open …

["]{.192425217-10062003}The software titan says it is joining a venture to help develop standards for radio frequency tags intended for use in tracking retail goods.["]{.192425217-10062003}[ via ]{.192425217-10062003}[CNET News.com]

[Point-of-sale stuff is only one small application of RFID or, for that matter, any technology having to do with …

Polyblogging doesn't scale at all. Last week, I was heavily involved with the wedding of two friends and so passed on attending TechEd (and SD Times balked at paying my freight anyway). But, with a Microsoft & .NET Watch due next week (my latest, on Bayesian spam filters, is up), I …

~~Attempting to restore files now... Please continue ignoring the CSS madness.~~ Okay, it looks like I managed to move stuff over from one machine to the Tablet. Design sense aside (I know that it's pretty ugly), is my layout (three columns plus header and footer) on the homepage rendering properly …

My 18-month old Siemens Speedstream SS2623 WAP stopped working over the course of a few days. I was preparing to officiate at some friends' wedding, and actually delayed doing something techie for doing something social -- who says old dogs can't learn new tricks? Anyway, the wedding went great: I didn't …

By physically heating a chip and causing random bit-flipping, a Princeton University student managed to get his attack code to run 70% of the time. Apparently, this would be a legitimate assault against smartcards and other "untamperable" computing apparati.

In response to this post, Matthew Adams wrote:

I think we should look at the problem the other way around. OO was a great paradigm for in-process, in-memory software development, but it really doesn't map well to an enterprise (viz orchestrated, out-of-process, distributed) application....I think we should be looking …