Because of Facebook, I just learned about Intentional Software and monkeys programming from a Near Infinity blog, a company run a by a friend on FB
It's always interesting to find out what you find as you connect with old colleagues.
For example, I reconnected with Chris D'Agostino, CEO of near infinity, on Facebook and revisited his company website and was happy to see that his company is doing well. I also found Scott Leberknight's blog and came across the Thinking Matters post where he talks about programmers, programming and thinking. Below is an extract: 
Aside from the fact that Oracle's Java Problem contains all kinds of factual and other errors (see the comments on the post) this sentence caught my eye in particular when referring to Java being "quite hard to work with" - "Then, as now, you needed to be a highly trained programmer to make heads or tails of the language."Thinking Matters - Blogs at Near Infinity
Scott also refers to Intentional Software (which is essentially language software to design DomainSpecificLanguages). While at Martin Fowler's site, I also learned LayProgrammers (if you do any work with on spreadsheets, especially with formulas, then yes, you are a LayProgrammer) and the UnforgivenContract (which is essentially a NDA with strong penalties).
So what's my point? My point is that it is sometimes it is beneficial to delve deeper when you are social networking. You'll never know what you discover.
BTW, I also learned about programming monkeys that cost 69 cents an hour. If you hire one, let me know so that I can get a referral fee. :)
Tags: monkeyprogramming, unforgivencontract, intentional software, layprogrammers, near infinity, scott leberknight
