Whoever came up with the idea of using "f-bomb" to avoid using "fuck" needs to be shot

I develop RIAs for a living, and I'll use whatever technology the customer wants. Once in a while somebody mentions Silverlight or HTML5, but 99% of the time they want Flash. Independently of any technical merits, Flash is all that they have heard of usually.

Something else that is worth watching is Flash. They have an export to iphone app planned for CS5, even if I'm kind of sceptical about it. And even if Flash dev still sucks, it beats developping with DHTML.

Hi, it won't necessarily do the project bit, but for organizing lists of tasks I find freemind a great tool. http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Hi, Silex is a CMS that works nicely with touchscreens. It does multilingual pretty well, which I think you're going to need. It's Flash based, so it will work with Flash Media Server smoothly. It's open source so it should go with your Linux ethos. Now you just need some hardware that can take the abuse. take a look! http://silex-ria.org/ drop me a line if you want to talk about it (disclaimer, I'm a contributor) Ariel

I think there are a lot of things being mixed up here. My job in IT sucked. So I left and am now a freelancer doing web related stuff, and working as a teacher, also on IT related subjects. My point: it's having a boss that sucks, not the actual IT. When I come in from the outside and I'm being paid big bucks for it, I get respect that I wouldn't if I were a wage slave. The reason they treat salespeople better is that they know how to market themselves, whereas there is this persistent image of IT people as Rainman types who you can kick around. Unions would help, but just leaving works too. In France we call this "voting with your feet".