Stochastic Geometry

Hmmm. One of the fun things when a client specifies W3C html compliance as a requirement is that you can spend a surprising amount of time picking just what W3C standard they want you to comply with in the first place. And now it seems that there’ll be another one to choose from. HTML 5 has just been revived as a standard in development, as a reaction to CSS and XHTML. Which means that at some point in the future, you’re going to have CSS 3, XHTML 2.0 and HTML 5 out there.

Daniel has a good summary of the whys and what’s involved. Some of the new features look downright spiffy – DOM support improved (right about the time that PHP is pushing away from DOM to get to SimpleXML – doh…), improved support for Forms (native data validation and better native input controls look like good timesavers to me), and more content tags (article, dialog, video, canvas and progress were listed).… Read the rest

Spotted over on SysAdmin’s Diary, a reference to an article in Network World Asia entitled 12 IT skills that employers can’t say no to.
It’s an… interesting list:

• Machine learning
• Mobilizing applications
• Wireless networking
• Human-computer interface
• Project management
• General networking skills
• Network convergence technicians
• Open-source programming
• Business intelligence systems
• Embedded security
• Digital home technology integration
• .Net, C #, C ++, Java — with an edge

Good grief.
Sometimes you have to despair. Let’s take a slightly less naive gullible buzzword-friendly analysis-free look at that, shall we?

Machine learning

Not machine learning, the AI field with years of development and reseach, but how to construct SQL statements to extract data efficiently from large databases.

Mobilizing applications

WAP. And HTML for small screens. And common sense about how to do UI on small screens.