Do not struggle with grassroots buzz until you’ve learnt traditional buzz generation. Edward Jay Epstein achieves great insight into how products are created and marketed. Go read:

Hollywoood buzz
Diamond buzz

Ian Bicking blogs that orthoganality is overrated, and gives points to PHP for helping users to get things done, in contrast to frameworks which try hard to separate presentation from logic.
I believe Ian’s remarks are very similar to what Dan Bricklin said in an IT Conversations podcast. VisiCalc was powerful because it imposes minimal constraints, [...]

“The Method - A Writer’s Handbook“, Lowell Tarling. ISBN 1 877029 22 X.
I highly recommend this for anyone writing a blog. Lowell demonstrates the application his method from page one, where he announces:
“You’ve got to grab hold of your audience quickly because they’ve got plenty of things to do instead of reading your stuff. [...]

Paul Graham’s take on Lisp without the nail clippings is RTML, the templating language which powers Yahoo Store.

My-Name ()
TITLE "My Name Is"
BODY
TEXT "Hello, my name is "
LINEBREAK
IMAGE source RENDER text @name
[...]

Another evidence of the Attention Economy at play. ComputerWorld reports Oracle buys SleepyCat software.
The moves by software vendors to snap up open-source companies are seen partly as a way to attract additional developers, in the hope that those developers will upgrade to paid-for products for wide application deployments.
Who says I.T. is not a mature market?

Zope’s database connections are like onions. Take out the outer layer, and you find another onion. Take out another layer, and you find,… another onion.
For example, ZODBCDA - a Zope product used to enable ODBC access - has 3 classes all representing database connections. A schematic would help:

class Connection(Shared.DC.ZRDB.Connection.Connection) [ZODBCDA/DA.py]
|
+— isinstance(self._v_database_connection, Products.ZODBCDA.db.DB)
[...]

VMWare’s web site boasts of a case study where AXA saved $550k in hardware through virtualization. With savings like that, one cannot ignore virtualization, especially given that VMWare Server Beta (download) is now free, as in beer. VMWare Player is still free, and this review aims to cover the differences between the Player and VMWare Server.

Dan Creswell’s suggestion: that businesses use open source because it is free, does not adequately describe the open source ecosystem.
Ultimately, businesses are driven by cost. Open source in itself is not free of costs. In some cases, they can end up being more expensive than their shrinked wrapped counterpart.
I would group open source consumers [...]

Dear colleague, and you intend to develop in a language that has lukewarm company support: don’t do it.
It’s hard enough debugging someone else’s code, and it is even harder debugging unfamiliar code written in someone else’s language, with an unfamiliar tool (like emacs) that I haven’t even installed on my workstation, with unfamiliar semantics (e.g. [...]

Peter Coffee makes a case for LISP in E-Week (via Phil Windley’s Technometria), arguing that Lisp trades memory/CPU usage for expressiveness, so that one can deliver applications quicker.
While I agree that Lisp is more expressive than, say Java, it’s not necessarily the platform to chose to develop web applications with.

Forget about using Common [...]