This is an article about a group of developers who had a task to do but hadn't chosen what programming language to use. The alternatives they had to choose from were C, PHP, Perl, Java and Python; and the requirements where these:

"In an open letter to Sun, Eric S. Raymond, president of the Open Source Initiative, attacks Sun's tight control of Java, even though the firm has recently made positive comments on open source software."

This Kuro5hin user must really hate the C programming language, but he must also know it very well. He's written a really long article about why C is such a bad choice of a programming language. If he's found so many things that are bad, how come he didn't stop using it and moved on to something better like C++, Java or Python?

Yet another useful but impressive java applet. Their website is shit and my browser reminds me I need Japanese language support (which you actually don't need unless you can read Japanese).

From the django-users mailinglist which I'm becoming more and more helpful in:

 > Could you share approximately how big your project is? I know it's
 > hard to find a real measure for this, but how about number of database
 > tables?

 A project I worked on over the summer used a Database that was 130
 tables, and getting 1gb updates every 2 minutes. I was witting a new
 web app to do calculations on the data and the company wanted to use
 Java since thats what they knew best and had spend huge amounts of
 money (1 mil +) to support with Sun Servers, and such. But I knew
 python and django would be a better fit for this particular app, but
 the boss wouldnt listen. So we had 10 Developers working on the Java
 version (Including me) and over 3 months we got it about 85% done,
 though it had no unit tests. During the same three months, I worked on
 my own time after work and basically had no life for the whole time, I
 was able to get the web app 100% complete with unit tests. That
 convinced my boss that Django was a good fit.

 The site is an internal app that I cannot give access to (And I
 actually had to get permission to give what info I have), but I can
 say that Django is a suitable framework for what you are looking for.