Wading into the chatterstream in hip boots, we wield the Axiom of Choice with gleeful abandon.
What’s Hot
Top-Ten lists are passé—ours goes to 11. These are the top titles that folks are interested in currently, along with their rank from last month. This is based solely on direct sales from our online store.
| 1^ | NEW | SQL Antipatterns |
| 2^ | 3 | Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition |
| 3^ | 6 | Language Implementation Patterns |
| 4^ | 5 | The RSpec Book |
| 5^ | 9 | iPhone SDK Development |
| 6^ | NEW | Hello, Android |
| 7v | 1 | ExpressionEngine 2.0 |
| 8^ | NEW | Metaprogramming Ruby |
| 9v | 8 | Programming Ruby 1.9 |
| 10v | 7 | Security on Rails |
| 11v | 2 | Web Design for Developers |
Opinions Vary on Apple’s iPad
[iPad] is Apple’s way of asserting that they’re taking over the penthouse suite as the strongest and best company in the whole ones-and-zeroes racket. — John Gruber
[T]he iPad with a 1024x768 screen resolution works great for a full VDI XenDesktop. Windows applications run unmodified and securely in the data center, and even multiple applications at once. — Chris Fleck
This thing, the iPad, is a dog. — Dave Winer
Following Hill and Bill
Tuning into Hillary speech on Internet Freedom. For all this hype, she better introduce a tablet. — Steven Levy
We stand for a single Internet where all of humanity has equal access to knowledge and ideas. — Hillary Clinton
Wow: Bill Gates started using Twitter earlier today, and already has almost 18,000 followers. — Harry McCracken
Many people are asking how they can help in Haiti - the foundation has posted a page wth some helpful links. — Bill Gates
Is It Even Worth Saying if You Can’t Fit It in a Tweet?
So @obie tweets about UJS, @dhh responds with a call to action, and a bunch of people jump on IRC to sort it out. Twitter at its best. — Chris Parsons
There is no debate on Twitter. Only intertwined streams of mutual interruption. — Chris Ammerman
The Future, if Any, of Newspapers
Expert who gets quoted in newspapers says Michael Kinsley is wrong and newspapers should quote experts. — Jay Rosen
When a newspaper says it’s putting a paywall up a year, it’s just floating trial balloons. #NYT could put a paywall up tomorrow. — Cory Doctorow
Leave in the first "yeee-HAW" in NASCAR fan interviews, omit the rest unless necessary in context. — Fake AP Stylebook
Further Observations
Just used copypasta *and* cargo cult programming to do power-law fitting in #mathematica —fogive me Lord for I have sinned. — Adrian Kuhn
I’m done: Star Wars opening crawl, using only HTML & CSS. — Guillermo Esteves
Little experiment shows that labels on a blogger blog post can make a HUGE difference in posts being found in Google search results. — Ben Simo
Manual: "The Zeo does not alter your sleep in any way." Me: "Except for when the factory default is to set the alarm for 1:10am." — David E. Weekly