Global Financial Crisis

Former Australia Prime Minister Paul Keating offers smart commentary on the global financial crisis (02/2009).

Thoughtful, sobering commentary that I wanted to bring to your attention - in 3 parts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaiHknko6dM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJiOZIdJOeA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MixVLZeVz7c&feature=related

Data Preservation

In the 08/28/2009 issue of the Wall Street Journal, we read:

"Our ability to collect data now outstrips our ability to maintain it for the long run," says William Michener at the University of New Mexico, who leads a data-preservation network called DataONE. "We lose an awful lot of data that is collected with public funds."

Coding Sites

Check out these two free lance sites:

RentACoder @ http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/DotNet/default.aspx

and

TopCoder @ http://www.topcoder.com/

Free Visual Studio Add-On

Intel is offering a free add-on called Parallel Advisor to assist in finding the best places to add parallelism to your application. Find it @ http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-parallel-advisor-lite/

Camera Clicks

PowerShell 2.0 & WMI

"In anticipation of PowerShell 2.0, Mr. Roboto gives a few pointers on how to get the most out of it -- starting with Windows Management Instrumentation."

Famous American Actors

This is Maya:

http://www.wimp.com/menfilm/

On The Shortness of Life

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65) wrote:

"It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. Life is long enough and our allotted portion generous enough for our most ambitious projects if we invest it all carefully. But when it is squandered through luxury and indifference, and spent for no good end, we realize it has gone, under the pressure of the ultimate necessity, before we were aware it was going."

Free Agile Software Tool

http://pm.versionone.com/TeamEdition.html

IT @ Goldman-Sachs

From an article by Julian Delasantellis published at Asia Times on 08/04/2009:


"On July 4, US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents arrested one Serge Aleynikov, up until early June a well-paid Goldman Sachs vice president for equity strategy quantitative analysis, or "quant", who worked for the previous two years on, as his Linkedin page put it:

Lead development of a distributed real-time co-located high-frequency trading platform. The main objective was to engineer a very low latency (microseconds) event-driven market data processing, strategy, and order submission engine. The system was obtaining multicast market data from Nasdaq, Arca/NYSE, CME [Chicago Mercantile Exchange] and running trading algorithms with low latency requirements responsive to changes in market conditions."

ATL Update

Get detailed information and guidance for controls and components built with the ActiveTemplates Library @ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualc/ee309358.aspx and @ http://blogs.msdn.com/sdl/archive/2009/07/28/atl-ms09-035-and-the-sdl.aspx

Thrive for Developers

Microsoft has put together Thrive - a Web site for helping developers survive the recession and manage their careers. You can find training resources, discount product offers, career advice, and community connections @ http://www.microsoft.com/click/thrivedev/