How's that again?

Among the universal mysteries that I will never penetrate, headed by the inexplicable popularity of the Three Stooges, I must now add the baffling thinking behind Microsoft's young-programmer recruiting site Hey-Genius.

A sarcastic-sounding name, crude graphics, 1980s games, and a "Hey we're 'kewl'" style: who, exactly, is the target demographic, Butters Stotch? I don't even know how to make fun of it. It's just odd.

Speaking of kewl, my failure to follow Johnny Kewl's essays on Coherent Disintegration (or is it Coherent Diffusion?) is no mystery. Couple my limited Java skills with his fractured English, and there was no hope. Your takeaway may be greater.

Johnny's creation, a POJO Application server called Harbor that he says is "what the future of J2EE will look like" (see, this is Java-related) is now in Rev 4 beta.

Oh, and happy birthday, Butters. Microsoft has a website you should check out.

Posted by Mike Swaine at 07:11 PM  Permalink