One thing I’m curious about is Scala. I’ve been working with a research group lately on a project using Intelligent Agents, and through that was introduced to the idea of Functional Programming. Somehow I missed seeing this in my undergraduate days, though I remember my peers complaining about Scheme in one of the senior-level computer science courses.

Some of the talks on Groovy and Grails seem interesting, too. The Ruby on Rails movement has certainly sparked some innovation in the Web Development community, and I like seeing those ideas cross-ported into the technologies I have more of an affinity for, such as Java and ColdFusion. Having recently built a somewhat painful full-scale Java application, there may be something useful here.

Details are at sitemaps.org.

The nice thing about using a content managment system is that it will be child’s play to generate this for our college Web site.

http://www.projecthoneypot.org

It’s a project to fight email address harvesting by spammers. I think this is the first project I’ve seen where legal recourse is actually a component of the strategy.

“Information wants to be anthropomorphized.”

Here’s some related reading…