It's always nice to see well written, controlled anger. Hacknot's demolition of Ruby and similar cults is worth sitting down with a cup of coffee or two, and reading to the end ....

I've read a few times (and can recommend) Bruce Tate's Beyond Java (though that doesn't have a lot about UIs in it) and I'm always interested to hear views on where UI programming is going.

User-level configuration of custom software has always been a pain to implement. Traditionally, as a database specialist, I've used databases for this: but there are drawbacks and although I've tried XML, it doesn't seem to solve them.

I've finally got the Offspin site onto a content management system (CMS).