Keith Pleas Blog
Keith's palimpsest
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The Future
I just read a Reason magazine interview of Bruce Sterling (mentioned on SlashDot) that really got me thinking. The pessimistic chord in me rang to Sterling saying “Socially, policy makers have made a series of choices very similar to what preceded the collapse into World War I.”. And the optimist in me (in this week of hype over the CES) vibrated when he said “I think the real revolution is in industrial production. It’s about manipulating factory processes, it’s about mass customization, it’s about a revolution in industry that gets the toxins out of the air and is more efficient by, say, a factor of four than what we had. When that happens we’ll have a genuinely new world. Playing movies off handhelds, that’s not really that big of a deal.”
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The "Five Eights" of J2EE Availability
Woah! I thought that the J2EE guys knew how to build enterprise applications, but apparently that's just a myth. Check out the “Five Eights” expose by Rick Ross, founder of JavaLobby.
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"We Have Met The Enemy...
...And He Is Us“ (Walt Kelly, 1970 Earth Day poster)
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Real Programmers...
In one of the coments to my post about the future of VB, Leon Bambrick wrote
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Future of VB (Argh!)
FTP Online just posted a full version of a recent interview with Chris Dias titled “VB.NET Branches Out”.
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INETA Speakers band at PDC
Kirk Allen took this picture of the INETA Speakers band playing at the Expo hall during “Ask The Experts” at PDC last week.
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Longhorn needs a "Go Live License"
The “Go Live License“ for ASP.NET was a great thing. Here's a post from an old blog by Scott Guthrie as well as a mention in an interview with Eric Rudder.
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SQL Server Profiling
I went to a SQL Server user group meeting last night. http://www.pnwsql.org/, which is actually an MSN groups page with a broken graphic link, but - hey - they're data guys, not web developers.<g>
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My brother thought I might be institutionalized...
He's living near the Vatican (don't ask...it's a long story) and I hadn't returned his email, so he googled me, found my blog, and saw that I hadn't written anything in more than a month. Then my friend Fernando, a SQL guru, asks if I have another blog somewhere else. <sigh>
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Party Tommorow (Saturday, Sept 6)
I hadn't even thought about blogging this until Robert asked me if it was OK for him to mention it...
