How to uninstall Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant from Firefox
Once upon a time I would have argued passionately about something or other, now I look at this and all just think it's sad they're all going down...
'Microsoft: keep your evil grubby hands off of our flickr' flickr pool
"If Microsoft does mandate conversions of Yahoo products to Windows technology, the other side of the equation is worth pondering as well: How many Yahoo developers would rather quit than re-implement their products using some flavor of Dot Net?" (waxy)
Ooh, Sun bought MySQL. And they manage to get web 2.0 in to the article. Carry on.
"What nine of the world’s largest websites are running on"
(oldie but) How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot in Any Programming Language Perl: You shoot yourself in the foot, but nobody can understand how you did it. Six months later, neither can you.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, has a blog. And it uses .Net. Which might not be a surprise if you consider Microsoft part of the axis of evil. But given that the alternative - PHP - has origins in Israel and you realize he had to make a difficult choice. ;)
Joel Spolsky's series on 'Great Design'
Why Rails? "The thrill of not having to write basic functionality over and over again has given way to more select pleasures. Writing in Ruby itself is a rewarding experience, as its idioms become plainer over time."
Only searches .net and .com (at the moment?), but this instant domain name searcher is sweet.
IBM article: Mono brings .NET apps to Linux
