I’d like to hear more on this, but according to Lockergnome, “Sun’s own engineers find developing common software applications in Java impractical…”

Interesting quote from DM Review Magazine: “The industrial age has been replaced by the knowledge age, with transformational effects on the economy and the workplace…”

I spent a few minutes today runing throught the product tour of Macromedia’s new light-wieght CMS application Contribute and I have to say that for $99 it seems to be very powerful… I need to test out a demo before I believe the hype, but it certainly has peeked my interest.

This isn’t released yet, but … “Taxomita is a web-based authoring application that lets you create distributed, hierarchical, faceted metadata, and use it to index any page on the web.”

Finally … “The World Wide Web Consortium today released the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification as a W3C Recommendation.”

Dean Allen of Textism writes, “Textpattern is a publishing system designed for those who want to write for the web. Its bells and whistles are many, but it is above all very simple to
use. Little knowledge of internet technology is required to install and use it;
the production of href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.textism.com/">valid,
standards-compliant web pages is basic to its operation.”

From Scripting News: “I’m going to get a new job with a new title, and it’s going to be quite different from being the CEO of a commercial software company.”

Good luck Dave! Hope you have better luck than most these days!

Ok, this sounds very cool … Sonicblue’s new DVD player will be able to access content on PCs, such as photos, music and videos, via an Ethernet and wireless network connection. Sweet!

Good article about Groove GWS by Jon Udell of InfoWorld writes: “Enterprises are held together by scripting, in ways that we sometimes don’t like to admit. But there’s no shame in it. Wear your duct tape proudly. It’s getting more useful all the time.” Very true! (via ScriptingNews)

Brian Kernighan (Unix, C, Bell Labs fame) has set “to demystify computing for a classroom full of liberal arts undergraduates at Princeton.” Damn … that would be a cool course to take for anyone!