To be smart is not enough these days. Our perception is limited to supplied information and its accuracy. And software project success raise and fails with accuracy and level of problem/domain specification.  Whenever I am faced with some task, I am asking myself: “Is it S.M.A.R.T.?”.  It does not matter whether I am describing task to someone else or I received this task from someone else.

If do not know Erlang already, you should take a look at it. It is very interesting programming language and it is very addictive from my point of view .  I started to play with Erlang about two years ago. Later I bought Joe’s great book. To be short. My journey with Erlang started with shock from all this functional stuff, but after some time I realized, that I started to love it (and missing it while writing an imperative code). OK enough…

O'Reilly Radar wrote about the 3-year programming language market share trend based on computer book sales. It shows some slow decline of Java and C/C++, and the continuing rise in market share of C# (especialy after .NET 2.0). You can see how Ruby's sharp ascent follows the introduction of Rails, and that PHP's fortunes reversed before book sales showed that web developers in search of rapid development languages moved over to ROR (and Microsoft's ASP.Net suite of technologies).