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Likelihood a user of one of these languages will be interested in Clojure
Ada and Scala developers appear to be seven times more likely than C# developers to be interested in Clojure. While the small sample size and overall selection bias makes the Clojure survey not entirely authoritative, I found the process of compiling the ratio to be interesting.
Sources:
Survey of 487 Clojurians
TIOBE programming index for August 2010
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What’s on your Enterprise 2.0 bookshelf?
This was originally posted on the excellent private forums at the 2.0 Adoption Council (see red bubble on the sidebar, join today! –>) but I liked the idea so much I wanted to share it publicly:
I know we all have tons of favorite blogs in this space but I’ve also read a few books that [read more...]
Book Review: Wikinomics – How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
No book has had more of an impact on this blog than Wikinomics, so here’s the final verdict up front: Read this book!
The 2008 expanded edtion of the book’s got 11 chapters, and each of them hits a major concept that Tapscott and Williams want to either define or elaborate on. Here are a few [read more...]
Collaboration: The Key To World Class Supply Chains
Last night’s “Leaders, Followers, and Laggards” presentation left me confident that this blog is moving in the right direction. Presenter Chuck Poirier profiled the supply chain efforts of companies around the globe. They’re pushing the envelope on collaboration internally and externally. They’re as responsive as possible to customers, vendors, and employees. Enterprises that focus on [read more...]
Book Review: Building a Knowledge-Driven Organization
Elevator pitch
Robert Buckman is the CEO emeritus of Memphis, TN chemical vendor Buckman Laboratories. I discovered his 2004 book Building a Knowledge-Driven Organization during a hopeful search on “knowledge management” at a Memphis Library kiosk. This was my first real offline research in the collaboration field and I was pleased to find such [read more...]
