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The Best of Memorial Day to All. This is a day off in a very busy schedule. I have been searching for a FrontPage website programmer to work with me, but all I find is legacy information about FrontPage. I KNOW I need to change platforms, but right now I need to use the platform I have. I am selling my columns nationally and need the website to back up the sales. When I have the resources, I will change things. Is there any way I can search for FrontPage Programming? Is there any group that I can find who...

Big news for developers out there: Google has just announced the release of a new, open sourced programming language called Go. The company says that Go is experimental, and that it combines the performance and security benefits associated with using a compiled language like C++ with the speed of a dynamic language like Python. GoÂ’s official mascot is Gordon the gopher, seen here. HereÂ’s how Google describes Go in its blog post: Go attempts to combine the development speed of working in a dynamic language like Python with the performance and safety of a compiled language like C or C++....

I read that it used to cost about $70 on average for a computer geek to walk from cubicle to cubicle to install the needed software on individual PCs at different work stations. Now, IBM has 200 people in Toronto running a software installation factory for clients worldwide. Packages are delivered over the Internet to machines at 20 cents per PC. Whoa! Big difference! Giants in the PC market don't have the luxury of making gradual changes in the way they do things anymore. Indian companies have rewritten the rules of competition - because Indians can do it cheaper and...

An engineer by any other name Legislature to decide if computer programmers can legally use the title By R.G. RATCLIFFE Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau AUSTIN -- One of the oddest battles of the 78th Legislature is pitting Texas' licensed professional engineers against the high-tech industry's software dudes. At issue is just who in Texas can call himself an engineer. "It's one of the silliest issues we're having to deal with this session, but it's also one of the most important," said Steven Kester, legislative director of the American Electronics Association, an organization of computer companies. Texas has one...

My eight-year-old son is interested in computer programming. We went to Barnes & Noble yesterday, looking for some book (perhaps including CD or disk) written at his level, maybe a Basic book and compiler, something like that. And there really was nothing. We came home with a large book that shows how to create Lego robots with Mindstorm, but it really doesn't fill the bill. What he needs is just some introduction to writing code, seeing how it works, line by line, getting some quick results. Any ideas or resources? Thanks.