Here in South Africa copper wire has been a country wide problem, some areas being hit time and again 1 week after the lines have been restored.
I definitely agree that fiber is the way to go, especially once you've replaced the same line more than 6 times....

Problem is that they go after the electricity cables too, and those can't be replaced with fiber.
Occasionally they end up self fried, but it doesn't seem to be a long term deterrent.

Well ... in the investment banking world, BSD has a very different meaning to what we're used to over here in technology.

AFAIK Confluence is open source but not free, I recall Atlassian providing source code with their enterprise licences. I'm completely unfamiliar with Plone, but I've investigated a fair number of Wiki's and CMS's. From what I learned a while ago when looking into this, there is a distinction between a wiki and CMS, with CMS being a bit more complex. One of the basic CMS requirements was workflow publishing, i.e. content is changed but not made available for public consumption until the necessary parties had reviewed and authorised it. I was very impressed with XWiki and Alfresco

As a professional programmer, I naturally have a keen affinity for various computer models including those that we put in our pockets.
However as a father of two, I firmly believe that computerised or televised entertainment is harmful to childrens development, and must be restricted as much as possible during formative years.
Its much too easy leave it to barney the baby-sitter to entertain the children.
I have seen how children get mesmerised my the screens and stop interacting with the rest of their under-developed senses.
So for now let him copy your behavior with preferably a wooden non-toxic imitation.
Let him develop the skills and senses that you can now take for granted.
At 18 months he's barely mastered the tactile sense, and should be experimenting with surfaces of different textures, especially with his mouth.
In years to come when the basic skills and senses are developed, he can start attaining specialised computer skills if so desired.
Baby-hacker might be a cute idea, but seeing as so many adult hackers have imbalanced development, typically below average in either social or physical development, try to lead the kid towards a balanced development.

@jellomizer, As a good developer, the braces in your sig should be correctly balanced DoItFaster(DoWhatIWant() ... DoItFaster(DoWhatIWant()) Could that be indicative of why developers shouldn't have production access?

I think its a variation of asshat.

I would say that the future popularity of the JVM is pretty secure with groovy, jruby, scala and the myriad of other languages that are now available on the JVM, see wikipedia List_of_JVM_languages.

There is a huge advantage to java programmers by staying within the familiar JVM world when changing a language rather than jumping to a completely new and foreign environment - familiar stacktraces, reusable libraries etc.

The "primary" language on the JVM - java will inevitably evolve slower (JCP = design by committee) and will therefore struggle to remain at the cutting edge.

So Mrs. Frog did the earth move for you ....