"A recent study...found only four female CIOs at the 200 largest public companies headquartered in California."

On Java performance tuning, complexity causing problems, GlassFish, the NetBeans Profiler, and more.

"The BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database (CMDB) 2.0 is the first update of the software since January 2005... Pricing varies for Atrium CMDB 2.0. Enterprise Manager is priced at $100,000, plus $10 per managed desktop."

TV as babysitter. Not having kids (yet), I'm not one to think poorly or "goodly" of anything related to this. Does the web, or a sub-set thereof, offer such babysitter succor?

Ship date: July 23rd, 2006. Pricing: from $69-$316.

All about Intel's Core line.

Less technical (and, thus, more understandable for me ;> ) overview of Intel's Core architecture. "A dual-core processor is something like 1.5 to 1.7 times faster than an equivalently clocked single-core chip."

The volatile keyword, double-check locking, and more low-level, Java threading talk than you should read before lunch.

Sarah's podcast. Stay tuned for more episodes.

"The companies jointly stated Tuesday that Canonical's Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support) will run on Sun's T1000 and T2000 servers, which use the UltraSparc T1 processor formerly known as Niagara."

You, dear readers, know that I'm obsessed with clip-art, esp. corporate clip-art. This post is gold!

These guys look good, and they have CarMax style pricing...

Here's a good example of what I call the "we're better" sales pitch...ugh...

Meta-search engine for free to use stock photography.

Another meta-search for free to use stock photos.

I like the notion behind the phrase "Accenture of Bermuda." Right. Also, "Indian subsidiaries of multinational companies, including service providers, now account for about 75 percent of India's offshore call center and BPO business."

"As it opens up more of its software, the focus of the company would then shift to services [, support, and training] around its software, as CollabNet has done with Subversion, which it now offers as a hosted service."

"Mashups could replace on-premises software, with AppExchange as the platform, Benioff said. In place of iTunes’ $1 a song, customers would purchase a business application for $25 per user, per month."

This could be interesting... What happens when cellphone software is open sourced?

"When physical resources are involved, error handling becomes much more difficult because certain operations are not reversible. In those situations, you do the best you can in software and at a certain point, you have to involve people."

Our long, tragic nightmare continues...

Interesting summary (?) of dev practices usd in VS. I'm cautiously thinking this is MSFTs embrace and extend of Agile, but I'm hoping to stand corrected post-TechEd. What do ya'll think?

"[T]he problem is that we don't do aspect-oriented organizations very well. Anything that has a cross-cutting concern tends to get bogged down in politics and negotiation over who owns it."

Hmmm, now I need to figure out what to do with this thingy before the trial runs out. Can I run reports?

Perhaps I can get myself in somehow... ;)

Wherein I give an opinion on T1+Ubuntu...

"Proprietary technology relegates you either to a niche or to the ditch," said Schwartz.

Getting linux working on a T1, in Feb. 2006.

"Linus pulled in all of the Niagara porting work this morning, it's all in there."

HP gets all up in the T1's grill...

API to take advantag of GPUs, the graphic card chips that can do mega-vector magic.

Scrum in Visual Studio.