Pain and Glory from the Trenches of the IT World

Chris Diggins has written a great article about the power that visual programming languages might hold. One specific example he mentions is Scratch. Another is Logo. Perhaps we will see a much greater use of such languages in the future. But I am hesistant to think that such will be the case. Part of the reason is the impact that modelling lanuages like UML, and the tools built around such modelling languages, have had on today’s developers.

Earlier this month I wrote about how the Ubuntu release names can get rather confusing. An interesting reply of sorts was made to that posting.

GNOME 2.18 was released recently, and this release was reported on Slashdot. In the discussion for that topic, one user made a particularly interesting post concerning the state of today’s desktop environments. That user asks the question: So, when are we going to see smart and innovative desktops that dramatically improve user friendliness?