The YUI team released version 2.5.1today. This is mostly a bug-fix release, but does contain improved support for Adobe AIR as well as a new YUI Dependency Configurator for getting only the specific YUI  components you need for your application.

Dr. Dobb’s has a post up on their Code Talk section from Christopher Diggins recommending which Programming Languages to learn in which order. The point is to learn languages with different sets of features so you can deepen your understanding of programming in the least amount of time possible. Christopher then recommends that if you only have time to learn one new language this year, that language should be Scala as it provides many of the best features from a wide variety of other programming languages.

Ivan Moscoso writes on the Agile Ajax blog today, his a reaction to O’Reilly’s State of the Computer Book Market - The Languages post. I think it is dangerous to speculate on the popularity of a programming language based on book sales, but it does make for some interesting conversation. It is hard to argue against the fact that dynamic languages such as Ruby, Groovy, Python, etc… are gaining in popularity.

Noah Gift writes on the O’Reilly OnLamp blog today about his experience at this years PyCon. He covers the talks he went to along with links to presentations. Good info about the conference, especially for those of us who couldn’t make it.