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Monday Apr 28, 2003

Those poor hapless VB programmers.

Techies and Modelers, Ted Neward: And on the flip side, we have your average Visual Basic programmer, who probably couldn't even tell you how many bytes one of their objects/classes/whatever consumed, and probably didn't care much, either. Their job was to come in, write a program, and leave, and they did--over and over again (many times, reweriting the same application because "nobody ever thought of that particular feature, it'll be easier to do it over again")
Mike Devlin, General Manager IBM Rational: "How do you help a VB [Visual Basic]-type developer or somebody that's just developing HTML Web pages or who thinks of themselves more as a creative artist?" Devlin asked. "How do you help them contribute in a software project? [...] One of the problems with these VB-type solutions is you can quickly produce a bunch of spaghetti code that's unmaintainable and hard to evolve if you're not careful"
What can be done to help these poor folks? Sounds like Ted and IBM may agree: turn them into modelers.
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An interesting one to watch.

eWeek published an interesting series of articles today on the ongoing integration of Rational Software Corp. into IBM. Rational Digs Up Gems describes how Rational's Grady Booch is working to identify IBM Research projects to be productized, such as hyperdimensional programming (AOP). Rational's Devlin Eyes Tight IBM Ties discusses bringing Model Driven Architecture to the Visual Basic-type programmers of the world. Rational, IBM Model a New World analyzes the merger's impact on the enterprise software and dev-tools markets.

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FoneBlog demo server.

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Check out the Roller-based Foneblogs at DemoTelco.com, a site created by Newbay to demonstrate the potential of their FoneBlog software. Apparently, you can blog by sending and MMS to an email address, sending an SMS to a phone-number, or by logging into the Roller Editor UI.

UPDATE: Doh! Russell has blogged about Newbay a couple of times before and I missed it. See his posts:Wow! I'm in the News and Camera Phone Blogs.

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    embedding works for me, @mistersugar. Perhaps your blog software is stripping out some of the JavaScript or HTML code?

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    Title: The meaning on the Facebook like button

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    t @gigaom article on rethinking AdMeter solutions.. How social media is making polling obsolete http://t.co/cNXp5OsR via @zite

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    and: Trick question: 'Are all Google employees stupid?' >> http://t.co/zxRrYY5m

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    pixies!

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    w Chrome joins the party with some "Harmony": let, collections, weak maps, proxies, and more http://t.co/GDkl8b06

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    thrilled about a couple of cool new projects that we just kicked off at #Wayin

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    RT @spericas: The JAX-RS 2.0 draft specification has been updated and it's under review until 3/10. Change log appendix in doc. http://t ...

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    hy I'm Feeling So Hard-Nosed Over the Contraception Affair http://t.co/m5AG7MfN v @AdamSerwer @Kdrum

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    ery cool use of collapsing cooling tower footage http://t.co/HF9DOyva good marketing here

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    we need to act more like a start-up | http://t.co/Lz0tqHIi

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    RT @sogrady: in case anyone missed them yesterday, the @redmonk feb programming language rankings: http://t.co/qOYDKoBh

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    Title: HTML5 Microdata and Schema.org

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    Every time I see pics of Amsterdam, I miss it so hard. This one is via @reddit: http://t.co/akTwHPqc

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    RT @hodgman: Prop 8 served no purpose, and had no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity..." http://t.co/UWtuqMEa #fb

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    RT @ronallo: My article on #microdata and #schemaorg now in the #code4lib Journal. HTML5 Microdata and Schema.org: http://t.co/YcFcprNu

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    Wayin on your favorite Super Bowl ads in the live event | http://t.co/gij20U1J

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    watching the Super Bowl and watching the servers

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    far as I can tell, clicking the Facebook "Like" button means "please spam me endlessly"

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    Scoble says open web is done... stick a fork in it | http://t.co/Hgjf8lR4

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    one of the great joys of parenting is relearning basic math and algebra… NOT

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