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LuckyLefty01 writes “I’m 21, going to college, and working part time doing odd jobs like math tutoring. In the past nine months or so, I’ve discovered and taken to programming (so far mostly C/C++/Obj-C). I am now looking seriously at something in this area as an eventual full time job. Since I don’t have much scheduled this coming summer, it would be great to try to get a job of some sort at a tech-related company in order to get some practical experience in the field. Even if I don’t have the background to get a job involving actual programming, I think that the knowledge of how such a company works would be valuable. Fortunately, I live in the SF Bay Area, so there should be plenty of companies around. I’m flexible about what I’m going to be doing, and very willing to learn just about anything anybody cares to teach me. If there’s some (or even quite a bit of) boring grunt work involved, I can do that too. What type of job would benefit an aspiring but inexperienced programmer the most? What methods might I use to find such a job?”

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This is truly the age of the browser interface. Internet Web sites and Web applications increasingly offer rich, dynamic, browser-based user interfaces that deliver everything you expect from an installed desktop application. These applications deliver function and ease-of-use without requiring expensive desktop software installs.

alphadogg points out a story about 11-year-old Jon Penn, who took over control of a 60-computer school network in Alabama after the old administrator suddenly left. Penn provides technical support, selects software, and teaches his classmates about computers. From NetworkWorld: “The first thing Jon found as he leapt into the role of network manager was that he had to map out the network to find out what was on it. He bought some tools for this at CompUSA and realized there was an ungodly amount of computer viruses and spam, so he pressed the school to invest in filtering and antivirus protection. ‘These computers are so old they don’t support all antivirus programs,’ Penn says. The school took advantage of a Microsoft effort called Fresh Start that offers free software upgrades for schools with donated computers, switching from Windows 98 to Windows 2000.”

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simoniker writes “Over at Dr. Dobb’s, C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup has given an in-depth interview dealing with, among other things, the upcoming C++0x programming standard, as well as his views on the past and future of C++. He comments in particular on some of the difficulties in educating people on C++: ‘In the early days of C++, I worried a lot about “not being able to teach teachers fast enough.” I had reason to worry because much of the obvious poor use of C++ can be traced to fundamental misunderstandings among educators. I obviously failed to articulate my ideals and principles sufficiently.’ Stroustrup also notes, ‘Given that the problems are not restricted to C++, I’m not alone in that. As far as I can see, every large programming community suffers, so the problem is one of scale.’ We’ve discussed Stroustrup’s views on C++ in the past.”

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Last week I was attending the AJAXWorld East conference to speak about Apache MyFaces Trinidad and how to integrate it with some other open source projects, such as Facelets, Dojo or Yahoo! UI. I think the talk went very well and I uploaded the slides today. The demo is not downloadable (yet), but you can get the source (via SVN).

In the world of open source software Red Hat’s crossed over from exciting leader to respectable elder statesman. The action is among the new batch of up-and-coming open source software companies who are not yet venture backed but are developing interesting technologies and services. Here are some of the companies that may well be the new open source superstars.

This year’s AJAXWorld was a great success. Seemed like a lot of people there, the rooms were packed. Many sessions were standing room only if you could get in. The folks who were there seemed very keen and were lining up early to register and to get into the rooms.

Last week I was in New York City for AJAXWorld. I filled in for our CEO Hooman Radfar at a talk he was going to give on ‘The Social Aggregator - Widgets Reshape the Social Web.’ It went really well. We had the room filled with about 40 people. There was a lot of great discussion about how the Web is getting broken into pieces via widgets and about the current state of consumer-facing and enterprise tools that are bringing the pieces of the Web back together.

Just a quick update from the conference (which is now over). I gave my talk at AJAXWorld East 2008 and got some interesting reactions. Met a lot of cool folks, put some faces to names, got to sit on a panel with Douglas Crockford. Cool beans. More next week.

call-me-kenneth writes “Business Week covers the soaring demand for power and cooling capacity in data centers. Electricity consumption for US data centerers more than doubled between 2000 and 2006. Among the other stats: for every dollar spent on computing equipment in data centers, an additional half dollar is spent each year to power and cool them; and half the electricity used goes for cooling. Iceland, with its cool climate and abundant cheap power, is courting big users like Google and Microsoft as a future data center location. (Can’t help thinking they’re gonna need a bigger cable first, though.)”

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