Links for 2006-08-09

08/09/2006

• I note there’s a new edition of Agile Web Development with Rails coming out sometime in the next couple of months… Unfortunately I can’t find it on Amazon. Am I missing something? Does anyone know the precise date that it’s going to be published? And more to the point – has anyone looked at the alpha PDF and what that’s like?
• I notice that Chris Messina survived a vote for deletion on Wikipedia Particularly liked the discussion of whether to merge him with Bar Camp and the line, “Tara Hunt should also be considered for merging”.
• Mint Digital has explored in some research sessions how British teenagers are using MySpace Interesting responses – I wonder if they’re representative…
• The use of gay issues as a wedge in the south of the US is causing gay people to move away No doubt the Bible belt are delighted. But they shouldn’t be – there’s some evidence that a region’s prosperity correlates well with the presence of gay communities. We’re like canaries down mines in the North of England…
• Simon’s put together a Python Development Centre for the Yahoo! Developer Network You go on holiday for a couple of weeks and he decides to get all productive. I should go on holiday more often.