03 January 2003

Friday Night Hoping that after all the Xmas parties and New Year that I will get a quiet weekend before the Birthday parties start :) 5:33:57 PM    comment []

.NET Skills This caught my eye in an article about what IT job skills are in demand at the moment. Significantly, .Net skills are appearing on the must-have list alongside Java and XML. Hull University is developing--with Microsoft--the first .Net Post Graduate Degree course for Computer Science in the UK, beginning in September 2003. As part of the Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance, universities create a "lending library" where students can legally access copies of the products for home use. Dr David Grey, a lecturer at Hull University said he believes that providing students with the inner workings of the .Net Framework will give them a significant edge in the skills and expertise needed to excel in the Web services area. Sounds like a great idea! 8:42:01 AM    comment []

99 Bottles of Beer - via John Dowdell How to write a 99 bottles of beer program in 487 languages. A few are weird ones, one in Common Lisp and one in CLOS, so one in Common Lisp and then one in Common Lisp with the Object System....but its still the same language...Lisp.....:) 8:35:23 AM    comment []