The software development group leader at Life Time Fitness shares their experience. via BillSaysThis.

Related: CNet asks Who wins in offshoring?

My new job has been a challenge – transitioning from a backend business systems developer to a customer applications developer is not as easy as I thought. New technologies, a different focus, a different work environment.

Software engineering is so much like guitar playing – it’s not even funny. When you are not practicing it daily – and facing new challenges regularly – your skill atrophies in the worst way. It’s great to be doing something new – I need to shake off my rust – and that is why my posts have slowed down recently.

Russell Beattie has been commenting recently on the effect his weblog had on his job search. I’ve had a similar experience, for those that have actually read my site and got to know me in advance thru it. For the most part however – I’d have to say it had little direct influence over their hiring decision.

Read all about it at her site.

For most of you webloggers out there, this is old news, but for my non-weblogging savy folks – here goes some interesting statistics on weblogging growth, maintenance, and so forth.

Jeff Javis has the info. Oh well. I’m sure that between Oliver Willis, Daily Kos and Atrios there is more then enough traffic to match. Daily Kos is moving to the more complex to maintain and install, but more feature rich platform – Scoop.

Great work on your movable type plugin that me and many others have installed to defeat the comment spammers.

Thank you and great job.

Talk Left shares the details on the bastard.

Apologies to anyone coming by mysite and finding links in my comments to what you would not expect.

Looks like I will be enabling comments far less here. It’s a damn shame. Bastards like this ruin the web.

Update: Same spammer hitting many other weblogs!

Other IP Addresses: 209.210.176.33 and 209.210.176.22

How can I say that if I didn’t attend? By browsing the weblogs of those who participated! Go to the site and check out postings today by those on the participants list.

They call it the Java Desktop System. Don’t let it’s name fool you. According to Chris Gulker in this Newsforge article, it is “the most polished and real-world user-ready Linux desktop in existence”. Wow!