Charles points out that Norm Green of Gemstone will be presenting 64 bit Gemstone/S at the NYC STUG on February 1st. Check out their Wiki for details. MacBU on stage at MacWorld Check out these Smalltalk vidoes. Steve Eichert bigs up Ruby on Rails. Scary U.S. employment stats
  • By 2008 the number of young adult workers, from 25 to 40 year olds, will DECLINE by 1.7 million. That's 1.7 million less workers to replace the nearly 77 million baby boomers who will be eligible for retirement. Simply put, there will be fewer people available for the top management slots and high-performance executive jobs. Over the next 15 years, there will be a 15 percent decline in the number of 35 to 44 year-olds.
  • By 2010 we will have 167,754,000 skilled jobs to fill in the United States, but only 157,721,000 people in the workforce to fill those jobs. (Do the math!)
  • Assuming that 5% of the workforce holds two jobs, we still will have approximately 2.2 million jobs unfilled.
A neat trick for embedding manifests (1=exe, 2=dll):
  • mt.exe -outputresource:output.exe;1 -manifest output.exe.manifest
  • mt.exe -outputresource:output.dll;2 -manifest output.dll.manifest
If you do a lot of demos, sample projects, or just things that you tinker with, you may find that your Recent Projects list on the Visual Studio 2005 start page gets pretty full and cluttered. If so, you may have wondered if you can clear it. Well, the bad news is that there isn't a hook into this from the GUI, but you can pretty easily clear the list (or individual items) by going to the registry key where they're stored, which is: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ProjectMRUList London Geek Girl Dinner event description from Sarah Blow: "This is basically a networking event to get women in technology mixing and discussing technical issues and hopefully solving a few of each others technical problems. I would really appreciate it if you could spread the word about the event. They happen once every 3 months and we try to get technical females from all areas to mix."

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