I moved to a different project couple of months ago. We just delivered the first version of our product. Here is an overview, here is the link to it, and here you will find what service tags are about.

I keep in touch with some of the developers on the Sun grid team, here are some features recently delivered by this team (in case someone actually reads this blog and did not see them somewhere else and since it is still called 'The Grid'!):

• International Access
• The application Catalog
• and something which was heavily requested at SC'06: The API to access Sun Grid without using the Web interface

More information at network.com

I have been looking recently for resources to start teaching my son who is in middle school some introduction to computer programming.

I am not too sure where to start? Should I look into some intro to computer architecture first, some Operating Systems concept...

My current thinking is to focus on programs, what is a computer program and how to write one while introducing the above concepts in parallel. I will probably use Java as I think it is much easier to learn than C for example (Yes, I know of all these programmers who said how hard it is to switch to Java and OO concepts!).

Here are some web sites I found and plan to use:

• The CS101 Project
• The BlueJ project
• The Netbeans IDE BlueJ Edition