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Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Who is the Best Registrar? (take 3)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: It has been many, many moons since a good registrar debate has been on the frontpage.

My wife has finally gotten into the 21st century, and wants me to grab a domain & set up a website for our personal use. Back in the day, squatters were a huge problem, godaddy would snipe your searches and grab the domain name you wanted before you could get to it and try to extort it from you, etc etc.

SO, how's the registrar field looking nowadays? Are the Great Old Ones (like, for instance, NETSOL) still worth the extra money for better tools/UI/service/etc? Or are we better off just going with the cheapest?
Programming

The State of Scripting Languages 415

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the coming-along-nicely dept.
Esther Schindler writes to tell us that Lynn Greiner has another look at the state of the scripting universe as a follow on to the same topic three years ago. Greiner talks to major players from each of the main scripting languages (PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby, and Javascript) to find out the current status and where they are headed in the future. "The biggest change since 2005 has been the growth of richer Web applications that perform more of their computations in the browser using JavaScript. The demand for these applications has forced developers to learn and use JavaScript much more than before. There's also been a lot of interest in Ruby, another dynamic language, spurred by the release and growth of Ruby on Rails. As a result of these changes, many developers are becoming more comfortable with dynamic languages."

Comment I never thought that I would see this story on /. (Score 1) 619

by Paul Bain (#22709068) Attached to: IT Labor Shortage Is Just a Myth

buzzardsbay writes "For the past few years, we've heard a number of analysts and high-profile IT industry executives, Bill Gates and Craig Barrett among them, promoting the idea that there's an ever-present shortage of skilled IT workers to fill the industry's demand. But now there's growing evidence suggesting the "shortage" is simply a self-serving myth. "It seems like every three years you've got one group or another saying, the world is going to come to an end there is going to be a shortage and so on," says Vivek Wadhwa, a professor for Duke University's Master of Engineering Management Program and a former technology CEO himself. "This whole concept of shortages is bogus, it shows a lack of understanding of the labor pool in the USA.""

Honestly, I thought that I would never see Slashdot post such a story, and I never thought that Rob "Commander Taco" Malda himself would post it. Amazing. Perhaps liberals are capable of change, after all.

For more information on the specious "labor shortage," google on terms such as these:

  1. Ron Hira, economics (?) professor
  2. Norm Matloff, Univ. of California CS professor
  3. Kim Berry
  4. Programmers' Guild
  5. Zazona
  6. TORAW, which is now probably defunct (IIRC).
Networking

Submission + - XO backbone problems today (internetpulse.net)

Submitted by
Network guy
Network guy writes: "This morning I came in to tons of complaints about VPN's not working and websites being unavailable. Some tracerouting showed it wasn't our provider's issue. It appeared packets were dying any time they tried to cross the XO backbone. Sure enough, a half hour later Internet Health Report started showing major packet loss and latency issues on all XO connections to other backbone providers. Has this made your day more interesting?"
Windows

Submission + - Windows admin resources for seasoned Linux admins

Submitted by Psiren
Psiren writes: In six months or so my colleague is planning to leave and I will take over responsibility for the Windows servers. I have been a Linux/Unix sysadmin for many years, and have of course managed Windows machines in that time, but never to any great depth. I have worked closely with my colleague over the last few years to integrate our Windows and Linux systems as much as possible, so I am familiar with the basics, but am also well aware of the significant differences between the two. I am interested in finding resources that will be useful to help me in this transition. Recommendations for decent admin books for Windows Server 2003 would be a good start, especially those written from the more technical standpoint. Useful websites are generally a google away, but if you have any favourites I'd appreciate some links. Any other advice (other than "Don't do it!") is welcome.
Slashdot.org

Submission + - How to moderate an underlying story

Submitted by
cprael
cprael writes: "So, it's rather obvious how to moderate comments that are good or bad, crap or interesting. But how does one do same to the underlying article? I'm not suggesting on a regular basis, but every once in a while, some of the top-level story stuff that gets posted just cries out to be moderated. Man bites dog journalism, slow news day... it's still crap. And deserves to mod'd accordingly."
Programming

Submission + - Caching is king for Ruby on Rails apps

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: For some, Rails is hyper productive and for others Ruby is a toy. Rails also has a reputation as unproven with limited scalability. Unlike the C and Java languages, Ruby is interpreted, with all of the inherent performance handicaps. This article explores the Ruby caching strategies such as caching static content, model caching, page caching, action caching, and others that can really speed things up. In many circumstances. there are caching techniques available to increase Ruby on Rails application performance.

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