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I have a brand new challenge and am excited to announce that my wife and I have relocated to Las Vegas, NV, where I have taken on a new role as a Senior Enterprise Architect for Caesars Entertainment.  The sheer scope of the concept of "enterprise" at Caesars Entertainment, which employs over 70,000 people on four continents,  takes me to a whole new level of architecture.  I will be integrating many technologies from very old, simple, and low-level to very new, complex, and highest-level.  My new position also requires that I learn a very interesting new enterprise-level messaging tool chain, the TIBCO products, particularly Enterprise Messaging Services (EMS), Rendezvous, BusinessEvents and BusinessWorks.  So, I will have my hands full getting used to real enterprise architecture and integration and will happily share this experience with you, the faithful readers of this weblog!

I'm excited about Scala (see Scaling the Cliffs to Scala ), one of the new Object-Fuctional languages that have emerged recently.  So, what excites me?  Let's list a few cool features.

I recently discovered, the hard way, that Microsoft Vista still has a limit of a maximum 260 characters for the Path.   You can enter all the characters you probably want in [Control Panel | System | Advanced System Settings | Environment Variables | Path] but when you subsequently execute "Path" in a Windows Command Processor Console, you will see your result gets truncated at 260. 

My wife and I have formed a new company, Tobwiz Technologies, providing products and services for software development, media development, idea development, and International communications.  In particular, we would love to help you add a touch of magic to your software projects by offering the following services:

The legendary Castle of Scalability, wherein is reputedly housed the Holy Grail of Website Performability, awaits you!  Will you accept the challenge?  Will you take up this noble Quest? 

Today, I had reason to update an old article of mine, Resume Dream Catchers, and figured I should remind my readers of this resource.  Please feel free to offer your additions,corrections, and thoughts as comments, either to the article directly, or to this post.  I will be happy to update the article with better information!  This started out as just a quick post, back in 2004, but some people seem to like it!

The most exciting new programming language I have seen in quite some time is the new Fan language. I recommend reading Why Fan and taking the Tour to have get a quick grasp of what Fan offers.  Then Download Fan and StartHere!

 After a rather long ... lull ..., I'm hearing much more noise again from the (almost mythological) realm of Pearl 6.  Seems like some sort of Parrot has been squawking loudly, lately.  In fact, it may have even squawked loudly enough to get me to join in the fun!