Last month, at eweek, an article appeared which I finally read the other day, "Toolmakers Respond to Boom in Scripting".
free kitchendrawToolmakers, recognizing the white-hot interest of system administrators and applications developers in putting scripts to work in more tasks, are responding with innovation and integration to create attractive script development alternatives.
Several tools are mentioned and linked.
If you have a feed reader, visit and bookmark the eweek Application Development Trends and News section.
On the same level as script and into web applications, John Musser, put together a brand new website ProgrammableWeb so he could organize his own finds and interests into one area. He also developed a very handy section, Web 2.0 API Reference. Says John, "This list tries to include all APIs that may be considered 'Web 2.0 APIs', but likely doesn't, so please feel free to recommend others." Keep the list growing.
Keeping on the topic of references, for those of you creating documents and sites for the web, a visit to Bernd Lutz's collection and creation at Essential Bookmarks - Links to great webdesign resources will have you poking through his dynamic category setup to find some favorites or spot new resources to visit or see. An interesting use of standards, css, and lists.
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMT) has started a new program... "New Mexico Tech Implements First-Year Computer Boot Camp"
... entering students at New Mexico Tech are being provided with the opportunity to build their own desktop personal computer (PC) from scratch for their educational use while attending the state-supported research university
A similar program has been offered to classrooms of grammar school age children, helping teachers and students to know how the computer works and relieving fears about working with computers. When students complete the boot camp, they will have a computer for their studies. An added positive note, these newer, updated computers are being built with discarded surplus computers. [piece spotted at O'Reilly Radar, Sept 7, 2005].
I have been doing computer work on home built boxes and local networks for over 10 years now, thanks to my own son who has been out of college for a few years now. It scared me when he opened the first computer we had, tinkering with parts/operating systems, changing hardware, and programming, but it lead to a degree for him in LAN networking administration, programming, digital music, and more, like teaching his mom a few technical things. Though, I still get to inform, share, and teach him a few tech and standards items, myself.
Posted by Holly at September 9, 2005 09:24 AM | TrackBack