Report: Certifications pay finally succumbs to IT economy: “Database and enterprise application skills continue to pay well above the average for all certs surveyed,” he said. “But it's rapid application development and extreme programming skills that have paid the handsomest every quarter for the past two years.” [Glad to hear it, without being able to… Continue reading Report: Certifications pay finally succumbs to IT economy

Turning Information Into Action. Cory Doctorow has a sterling Op-Ed piece in the Boston Globe, on the evolving relationship between political activism and the Internet. Information is power, but it's not enough. Modern emperors have learned the knack of spinning revelations of wrongdoing and bouncing back. Thus far, the Internet has lacked the follow-through necessary… Continue reading Turning Information Into Action

Choosing a Shopping Cart by Paul Whitham; re: Dreamweaver. [Macromedia – Designer Developer Center]

Dynamic languages and virtual machines. What about robustness? In a world where computation lived within a single VM, strong type-checking and bytecode verification may have been reasons to prefer languages such as C# and Java. But we don't live in that world any more. Computation is distributed; interfaces are language neutral and document oriented; cross-domain… Continue reading Dynamic languages and virtual machines

More Windows Insecurity Links. A few more useful resources on the whole Windows security question. [DennisKennedy.blog]

RSS Reader Reviews; New FeedDemon Beta. From Extremetech.com, rating the RSS readers. Note that a new beta version of the highest-rated reader on this list, FeedDemon, has just been released, offering, in my opinion, some nice improvements to a program I already like and use. [DennisKennedy.blog]

Lifespan of CD-RWs Critically Short. cdfreaks.com reports on a study by the Dutch magazine, PC-Active, involving tests on 30 separate brands of recordable CDs to… [beSpacific]

Tim Bray wonders if he should let his kid go into IT? It's all supply and demand. Personally, I'm trying to get my son to learn Chinese. Why? Because China is going to be more and more of a world power and very few Americans learn to speak Chinese and those that do will have… Continue reading if he should let his kid go into IT

Berkshire Hathaway. “How is picking the right index fund any easier that picking a good stock?” [The Motley Fool]

Dell's Hollow Buybacks. As Zeke Ashton explains, buybacks don't always serve shareholders. [The Motley Fool]