Since everyone and their brother must be blogging about this week’s broadcast TV switch to digital – or the lack thereof – what’s one more. Officially, the cutover date is now June 12th.  In addition to the stations that had planned to cutover early, 491 stations are cutting over February 17th anyway.  So instead of [...]

The JavaRanch Journal about the forum migration is out. Since I was involved in the details of the project, I wrote quite a bit.  It contains: My overview of why we did it, what technologies we used, the timeline and process Pauline’s interview with Ulf, Ernest, Bear, Amit and myself My article on the data [...]

Reading  Bjarne Stroustrup on Educating Software Developers really got me thinking – about questions I see from students at JavaRanch/reading, how my own education fits in and what I would like to see from new college graduates. Yet while Stroustrup agrees that Java has been used to dumb down CS programs, ultimately, “the problem is [...]