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Prolific On Ruby blogger Pat Eyler has teamed up with software development books publisher Apress to sponsor a Ruby/Ruby on Rails blogging contest...

I remain behind the curve when it comes from the latest from Redmond, specifically Vista and the ".NET Framework 3.0" (the latter being a choice of name I'm still not sure I understand). I have not even seen Vista in person yet, and I'm only just now having some real fun with "old fashioned" Windows Forms coding in C# 2005, and Windows XP works pretty damn well, so...

All of our best thoughts go out to Gerald Weinberg, who recently underwent emergency surgery. As we understand it, Jerry is recovering well, and taking it easy at home. Unfortunately this means we'll miss him at next week's AYE Conference, but luckily AYE has a whole group of excellent organizers and hosts to take care of things. Jerry posted some information to his blog today about the surgery, as well as some good news about his book Weinberg on Writing.

I just came across something cool, Scott Rosenberg's Code Reads project, in which Scott presents a series of "core" reading material in the software field. Each suggested reading has a companion discussion (open to all to participate) to go with it.

On his popular blog, The Mindset, Lidor Wyssocky has written some worthwhile posts recently that riff on the intersection of two current hot topics in blogland, one relating to methodology, the other to software team composition--both of which have an underlying theme of "What is the best way to enable success in building software?"

Pat Eyler has posted an interview with developer.* Books author Robert L. Glass, author of Software Conflict 2.0 and the forthcoming Software Creativity 2.0, and 25 or so other books.

I'm writing a BLOG about coding, well, nothing new then, but I'm trying to make it not boring and at same time helpfull. Would be glad to receive your visit and comments: http://spaghetti-monster.blogspot.com/

If you don't have Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror blog on your radar, it's a good one for daily reading. Today, Jeff ponders some aspects of software programming history, recent and otherwise...

Via a reference today from the AYE blog, I came across a very interesting page on the AYE Wiki called "Musings on Women in IT," including many excellent comments that follow Johanna Rothman's original post...

In relation to Terry Cornwell's question of whether to "DDA or not to DDA," this story seems like one to watch.

This looks like it should be fun:
http://www.anappaday.com/. "I plan on writing 30 applications in 30 days."

I very much enjoyed this thoughtful and well written post by blogger Ravi Mohan, " But Martin, Enterprise Software IS Boring." Ravi responds to a recent post by Martin Fowler regarding "customer affinity" and "enterprise developers," and ends up doing a great job exploring an area I've thought a lot about myself (with little to show for it): what accounts for the apparent differences between business-oriented developers from their counterparts who are more interested in "things like compilers and hardware hacks and 'tough' algorithmic problems" (Ravi's phrasing)?

developer.* watchers are no doubt aware that our first two books (Software Conflict 2.0 and the forthcoming Software Creativity 2.0) were written by Robert L. Glass, author or editor of more than 25 software books and a member of the profession for more than 50 years.

I recently found out about a new blog by Pete McBreen, author of two books I enjoyed a lot, Software Craftsmanship and Questioning Extreme Programming. The blog is called "Improving Wetware"

Some links and commentary related to the imminent release of IE 7 and related ripple effects.