According to the news link in this Slashdot thread, experienced SysAdmins can look optimistically towards the future.

I’d tell ya, but it would spoil the link.

Read it at Evolt.org.

Really? Can this be true (Slashdot)? Considering that I spend most of my time developing using Java, and these days Flash (yes you read that right…), this is great news to me 🙂

Update: Looks like this is very much up in the air….

Frontier’s kernel to be open sourced! (Scripting.com).

Movable Type gets a new license structure and terms.

The trend of some great webloggers migrating from Movable Type to other alternatives accelerates. It was already underway anyway. Whenever us tech geeks see something new and promising, we gotta try it. There is still plenty of room for competition in the weblog software space. Check out opensourceCMS.

Two webloggers I respect have made the transition from MovableType to WordPress.

First was Garret Vreeland and now Shelley Powers. She recently posted a some helpful info on her migration.

…Humans are failure machines. We’re not success machines. We’re failure machines. We fail all the time. And it’s only through processing the feedback of our failure that we learn how to correct for them and do better. That is why it is important to stick with the choices you make and understand how well they worked.

Read the rest of Becoming An Architect at artima.com.

Only by staying with a project thru multiple releases do you get the kind of experience that leads to becoming a domain expert and a system architect. A couple failures along the way are great opportunities to learn, so by constantly moving from new thing to new thing you loose the chance to apply those lessons in a consistent way to test them. It wrecks, long term, the software solutions you’ve built as well. If this sounds pessimistic – you are missing the point. It’s about “if at first you don’t succeed…” and taking the lessons learned with you. You can’t get more optimistic then that. Great article.

Microsoft released a toolset to build Windows installer packages at SourceForge. Predictably, Slashdot was full of paranoia. Alex nails the thread there.

What is Channel 9? Related Slashdot thread.

Ahh, Scripting News has more on Channel 9. Sounds like a great idea.

The Topix.net weblog has a nice bit on Google’s power. It illuminates an earlier post of mine: The Big Hard Drive In The Sky. More in this Slashdot thread.

There is just too much goodness to share in this essay at Daring Fireball (source rc3.org).

Some things are worth repeating:

Newsmap is a visual way to see the news gathered from news.google.com. It works pretty well and is now a regular visit for me.