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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.

Michael Silver brings us an article today entitled “The Theory of One (or how to get work done)“. It is easy to get overwhelmed at times and have so much to do that you mentally shut down and spend the day farting around on the internet instead. Michael’s theory is that if you can force yourself to do one, small, achievable task a day (such as writing a single line of code), it makes it that much easier to continue and get even more work done.

So I now present to you my “one blog post a day”.

Bruce Perens issued a “State of Open Source” message today. It’s a good article outlining how far we’ve come in the last ten years and what still needs to be done.

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

Celebrating 10 years since the Netscape Communicator source code was freed. Blog post here. Original Netscape  press release here.

An answer by Jack Ganssle can be found here.