Archive for February, 2009

Notes on O’Reilly Radar’s State of the Computer Book Market
Friday, February 27th, 2009

For the past several years one of my favorite places to track programming language trends has been the “State of the Computer Book Market” series on O’Reilly Radar. O’Reilly’s Mike Hendrickson dives deep again this year into the statistics and details of the computer book market in a 5-part series: State of the Computer Book [...]

A Survey of Rel Values on the Web
Monday, February 16th, 2009

One of the interesting things about sharing an office with Jyri is that our free-association stream-of-consciousness conversations often lead to places worth exploring further. On Friday Jyri and I started wondering about the link rel values documented in the XFN 1.1 profile, which include not only the relatively commonplace me and friend values, but also [...]