Great article and videos. "passion has a funny way of trumping logic".Wonderful line

I think this would be very useful to people who are new to a particular subject and do not have other means of guidance. One way of building the database would be to request users for inputs if there is no data for the topic user is searching for.

I've had a chance to attend one of his guest talks and talk to him for a few minutes after it. He came across as a very modest and smart guy. He has graduated from Wharton, had previously launched a detergent product Dropps which was very successful. I am not surprised that he is doing something nice.

You don't have to be sorry. I work at eBay and use their web service framework. I understand what you mean.

I have found the Gil Fronsdal lectures mentioned elsewhere in the thread extremely good and helpful. I recommend meditation to people I think would benefit from it, but have difficulty in convincing them to do it, especially when their perception of meditating is "doing nothing".

Maybe its just but I couldn't get any connection between flying planes and coding from the article. But I do have learning to fly planes on my to-do list

Try a discovery flight. It's a cheap, no-commitment way to see what flying small planes is like.

After you're back on the ground you'll probably find yourself bumping up the priority of flying lessons on your todo.

I am getting a 404 page..cached page :http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:05qcOps...

Sigh. this article made me a little sad. I keep wondering why the corporates who have all the money and resources keep using a technology that is just so old and has so many issues, when they have the better alternatives. My entire week was spent in just trying to get the configuration and a hello world service up and running.

Work on a product with another dev at office and hope it takes me closer to being self employed. Fill the gaps in my CS skills due to a lack of formal CS background

At work, I've used the Java Play framework and absolutely loved it. Been recommending it to only java guys ever since. Learnt python and django this year and was blown away.