[Jakob Nielsen's latest AlertBox makes a point about Web publishing that may not be obvious: your influence has very little to do with your ranking in the overall media universe, your influence is based on how coherent your readership is within the niche you target. Game Developer, a magazine I …

InfoWorld is reporting a second year of wages essentially flat, with "Developer"s making a median of \$84,146. Software Development reports a huge post-2000 slowdown, with current compensation of \$78,000 compared to 2000's \$95K. (SD's survey goes to a much larger sample size than InfoWorld's, but I'm not …

["]{.698445520-15062003}IDEs are very powerful but..... (From Rahul Chaudhary's Weblog) [" via ]{.698445520-15062003}[Artima Weblogs]

[One of the more controversial things in The Book Formerly Known As Thinking In C# is my "strong recommendation" not to use an IDE (specifically, Visual Studio) until at least one has reached the chapters on …

["]{.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 …