What are the motion sensors in Macbooks Pro for ?
You may not know, but all MacBook Pro have a motion sensor that is used to save your hard drive in case of a fall. It seems that it can be used also :
- To switch screens in a virtual Desktop (watch the video, it looks almost like playing a pinball)
- A carpenter's Level.
- A security device (motion sensor).
EJB 3.0 vs EJB 2.1
The EJB 3.0 specification really simplifies the development of entity persistence. Rahul and Ed are detailing the differences in this article. Annotations are really simplifying the developer's job, while still allowing customization. The same holds true for JAX-WS 2.0.
And all of that, open sourced in Glassfish, with performance improvements above the previous Application Server benchmarks ... look at the results posted by Scott Oak.
Excellent ... 167% improvement above previously posted results ...
Offshoring and the impact on IT sourcing
It seems that the trend of IT offshoring policies is starting to impact the availability of US trained IT professionals. It's no surprise. Not only students are not willing to face the fate of having their job moved to a low cost location, but now, engineers are starting to move out of the job, mainly into Marketing, it seems (I would be interested to know how many seasoned developers are attending MBA schools these days ...).
Robert Mitchell seems to disagree that students contemplating an IT job should be put off by offshoring. In an article, he says :
globalization is an opportunity ... placing key human resources closer to customers in each market.
I don't really think that this is the reason why jobs are offshored in the first place ...
How to be a better blogger ...
Computer world has a nice article on how to be a better blogger ... and still keep your day job ... David Strom says :
For me, blogging is not about promoting my employer's technology. Even though I think that our technology is really cool. It's one of the reasons why my blog is not on the corporate site. I would like to make sure that I'm perceived as objective, and provide a forum that is transcending a specific employer, and will evolve with me, not attached to a specific job.
- Tell the truth
- find your voice, and stick to it
- be professional at all times
- craft your own blogging policy now
- understand the mechanic, and know your tools