Digital Sanctum

Joel Spolsky has just written a great post about what top developers want from an employer. Joel goes through several topics that make for a more efficient and symbiotic relationship.

While the promising new build server and version 6 of their IntelliJ IDEA IDE is in beta, the folks over at JetBrains have decided to launch a new contest with total prizes valued at $25,000.

In this NY Times article by John Markoff, the frantic cry from Microsoft to over a million beta testers to give the new Vista operating system “an urgent shakedown” is evident and quite disturbing keeping in mind that MS still holds 97% of the desktop market share. But after 5 years without a new operating system, MS is apparently trying to prove analysts wrong about slipping further from their November goal of making Vista available to corporate customers.

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“popular urls to the latest web buzz”

a concise aggregation of the latest popular links from social bookmarking sites, news and media sites including digg.com, reddit.com, news.google.com, tailrank and more. Presented in a clean format you can go here when you’re stumbling around on the web and looking for something new and interesting to read about.

Rod Coffin over at Devx.com has just published an article which is focused on helping you choose between Spring and EJB 3.0. I didn’t know that decision was necessarily mutally exclusive and the author calls attention to this, but read for yourself.