My recent Java and Python coding projects gave me real life insights to the relative value of these two languages. Is it possible to code twice as fast in Python as it is in Java?

Some blog responses to Daniel Cazzulino's All about Schematron

Validate XHTML+CSS saves a site $$ millions. Plus a laywer questions whether open source licenses of IP can be renigged.

Document Complexity Metric. Web Proper Names. A new approach to Datatypes.

A new mailing list for practical conversations about syndication of audio and video. A place for publishers and consumers to coordinate. RSS 2.0 enclosures are central. RSS and Atom are directly relevant. Playlists may be relevant.

"The following are individual pages with information about various technologies relevant to improving bootup time for Linux. Some of these describe local patches available on this site. Others point off to projects or patches maintained elsewhere."

Related link: http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/xml/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnxml/html/sc… Dare Obasanjo has compiled a short introduction to Schematron (1.5) for the MicroSoft Developer Network. This is the first time (that I am aware of) that MS has had material promoting Schematron. Great! I think it springs from Daniel Cazzulino's work with Schematron.NET. Maybe people are finally not seeing Schematron as a threat to their favourite grammar,...

Related link: http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/sightings/S01.html Talking to Groovy's John Wilson last week, he mentioned that his mini-XML parser had been used to make a toaster that toasts the day's weather map onto your bread! I missed this originally: but it perhaps this is the new medium. Quick: someone should patent personalized fast food! Perhaps (bogglingly experimental Spanish restaurant) El Bulli will toast...

OS X Server has been out for a few years. Why are there so few technical books available for it?

I've been looking for a product like ACT or Goldmine, but if you want multiple people using it collaboratively, you're suddenly an "enterprise" customer, which means thousands of dollars. Also, they just got a couple million from DFJ, who's betting on the open source aspect - which has never been applied to CRM. Way cool.