The Simple-Talk newsletter is
a monthly e-zine that the folks over at Red Gate Software (makers of some pretty cool
toys, including their ANTS Profiler, and recent inheritors of the Reflector utility
legacy) produce, usually to good effect.

But this month carried
with it an interesting editorial piece, which I reproduce in its entirety here:

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While playing around with a recent research-oriented project for myself (more on that
later), I discovered something that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere in the Scala
universe before. (OK, not really--as you'll see towards the end of this piece, it
really is documented, but allow me my brief delusions of grandeur as I write this.
They'll get deflated quickly enough.)

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An interesting
blog post was forwarded to me by another of my fellow ThoughtWorkers, which suggests
a new software stack for building an enterprise system, acronymized as “JOSH”:

The Book Of JOSH

Through a marvelous, even devious, set of circumstances, I'm presented with the opportunity
to address my little problem without proscribed constraints, a true green field opportunity.


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This crossed my Inbox:

I read your article entitled: The Polyglot Programmer. How about the thought that
rather than becoming a polyglot-software engineer; pick a polyglot-language. For example,
C# is borrowing techniques from functional and dynamic languages. Let the compiler
designer worry about mixing features and software engineers worry about keep up with
the mixture. Is this a good approach? [From Phil, at http://greensoftwareengineer.spaces.live.com/]

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This email crossed my Inbox last week while I was on the road:

Due to the current economic situation, TechWeb has made the difficult decision to
discontinue the Software Development events, including SD West, SD Best Practices
and Architecture & Design World. We are grateful for your support during SD's
twenty-four year history and are disappointed to see the events end.

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Just got this email from Chris Sells:

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Matt
Podwysocki makes it all clear:

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Last year I had the opportunity to return to the land of my roots, Poland, and speak
at Java Developer Days (JDD). Just today, the organizers from JDD sent me a link with a
nice little photo montage from the conference. (I did notice a few photos from
the after-party were selectively left out of the montage, however, which is probably
a good thing because that was the first time I'd ever met a Polish Mad Dog, and boy
did they all go down easy...)

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From Scott
Hanselman's blog:

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Chris Sells, an acquaintance (and perhaps friend, when he's not picking on me for
my Java leanings) of mine from my DevelopMentor days, has a habit of putting on a
"DevCon" whenever a technology seems to have reached a certain maturity level. He
did it with XML a few years ago, and ATL before that, both of which were pretty amazing
events, filled with the sharpest guys in the subject, gathered into a single room
to share ideas and shoot each others' pet theories full of holes.

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