Careers: Writing code, one could argue, is an art form. But at least one inventor, Gordon Morrison, wants to change that and actually take the art out of it with a fatal injection of engineering. Morrison, in fact, has created a rules-based software development architecture to eliminate the need for conventional computer languages. “Now, I’m no troglodyte,” Nick Corcodilos responds in I, programmer. “I’m all for advancing the state of the art. But I see catastrophe brewing behind the growing attitude that technology can support itself.” Columnist’s corner: What with all the anger The Wall Street Journal stirred by printing its now notorious “Ten Things Your IT Department Won’t Tell You” article and, subsequently, issuing a latent apology in the form of a follow-up piece titled “Helping the IT Department Help You,” David Margulius says its time to put it all behind us. “I think the Journal blew it on this one. Their first article was at least a gutsy, well-researched piece that provided useful, if disconcerting, information to employees as well as IT managers,” he asserts in Kiss and make up with IT? Margulius raises the bigger question, though: “Does the mainstream media have an anti-IT bias? It wouldn’t surprise me…” From the Test Center: In this exclusive look at the new Clearswift MIMEsweeper Web Appliance ENW10, a mouthful indeed, James Borck found that the inline filtering device, in tests, “did a reliable job of trapping spyware, viruses, and keywords and phrases thrown at it.” That includes viruses nestled inside Microsoft Office attachments, PDFs, compressed archives, and executables, as well as a variety of multimedia files. Indeed, what it aims to achieve, it accomplishes well. “On the downside, unlike competing solutions from Secure Computing and Blue Coat Systems, this unit cannot scan HTTPS content streams. SSL-encrypted content and Web sites will pass through MIMEsweeper unexamined.” Read the full review. The news beat: A Burton group report says that Google Apps are no match for Microsoft Office and goes on to suggest that deploying them could be a career-limiting move. London police arrest a man for stealing Wi-Fi as he sat on a garden fence with laptop open and connected via an unsecure Wi-Fi network. Skype says that paying users will get a free week of service as a goodwill gesture due to last week’s outage. And Sony figures out a way to run the Walkman on a bio battery that produces electricity by breaking down sugar. Technology Industry