Less than a week after releasing version 1.5.2, the Groovy team has announced 1.5.3. Apparently, 1.5.2 contained some regression bugs that have since been worked out. This is a minor bug-fix only release.

In other Groovy news, The Server Side has an interview with Dierk König regarding Canoo and testing with Groovy.

Google and Facebook are competing for the years top Computer Science graduates and are apparently offering kids $95,000 a year to come work for them. This seems a bit extreme to me, especially considering the pool of experienced talent being laid off from Yahoo! recently. Then again, a rockstar programmer with lots of energy can really help a team out. I won’t mention what my first job out of college paid

Smashing Magazine presents the ten principles of effective web design today. Good advice that will come in handy during the foojam redesign coming up in the next few days.

Wake Up Later has an interesting blog post regarding eight design mistakes programmers often make. FooJam.com is an example of what this article is trying to prevent As a developer myself, I often struggle with design and user interfaces. This article provides some good advice.