A few selected sips from the Twitter stream.
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 | 1 | Agile Web Development with Rails |
| 2^ | NEW | HTML5 and CSS3 |
| 3^ | NEW | SQL Antipatterns |
| 4^ | 5 | The RSpec Book |
| 5v | 3 | iPad Programming |
| 6v | 4 | Hello, Android |
| 7v | 2 | The Agile Samurai |
| 8^ | NEW | Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC |
| 9v | 7 | Seven Languages in Seven Weeks |
| 10^ | NEW | iPhone SDK Development |
| 11v | 10 | Programming Ruby 1.9 |
The incomparable wisdom of the tweet.
Counting packets is the new counting cycles. — @mtnygard
One snapshot of a code base doesn't tell you much. Two snapshots and you have a vector. Three or more and you have trends. — @mfeathers
alligator cell tower: “all mouth no ears” rabbit cell tower “all ears no mouth” — @codinghorror
My next book will be ‘Wikipedia Brown,’ about a boy detective who solves crimes by getting his friends to do all the work. — @cshirky
Art critics can study brush strokes for 100s of years but only the artist knows how the smell of paint guided the work. — @WardCunningham
completed tdd screen casts two weeks ago, they came out yesterday, & prags cut my first royalty check today. are you listening pearson? — @KentBeck
Every time I get irritated with OpenOffice, it just makes me more impressed at how well it emulates MS Office. — @hardtaught
Who exactly promised us flying cars back in the day, and why is it the only thing we've managed to remember for more than 20 years? — @shelly
Sleepless in Seattle?
The sky over Portland is the color of television, tuned to a dead channel (in 1983). — @wilw
I just realized that it is all too obvious why cloud computing is at home in Seattle. — @jeffbarr
Post vuvuzela hell, the patter of heavy summer rain outside my window feels like thousands of angels massaging my eardrums. — @craigmod
Which is more annoying: The vuvuzela or discussion of them? — @petdance
Note: I did not invent the ASCII vuvuzela. I am merely a player. — @jkottke
Everybody’s summer vacation is different.
Now up, a v3-ized map of all the toilets in Australia, complete with clustering, tile layers, and simplified polys. #devfestau — @pamelafox
Got out of Powell's for $30. I'm extremely proud of my restraint, and commitment to keeping my suitcase under weight when I fly home. — @wilw
Incredible trip to Nigeria – determined & getting closer to eradicating polio. Government, partners & Nigerians are committed & inspiring — @BillGates
Safely made it to Bedford, IN. Let the good times roll! — @squarepegsys
Hiring advice from the AP Stylebook.
Illegal immigrant is the preferred term for someone who has entered the country illegally. Do not use an illegal. — @APStylebook
Best thing about coffeescript: You will not be shot on sight if you don't use CamelCase. — @burkelibbey
When “Anna Chapman” bought her untraceable cellphone on Saturday, she gave a false name, and the address “99 Fake Street.” #TooGoodToBeTrue — @maddow
As appropriate as it may seem, references to the game "Frogger" have no place in pedestrian death stories. — @FakeAPStylebook
Using a modified version of the kind of spectral imaging technology developed for the military and for monitoring agriculture, research scientists have reconstructed the long-lost first draft of K&R (&L).
Playing the game of Tetris that is my email inbox and losing. They're coming in faster than I can make them disappear! — @ginatrapani
It’s amazing how burpy you can get after a trip to the dentist. So much air swallowed! — @petdance
The C Programming Language, Brian W Kernighan & Dennis M Ritchie & HP Lovecraft http://bit.ly/7gy7Db — @alexey_r
This month we eavesdropped on the twitterflow of a whole bunch of folks—possibly including you—and gathered tweets from AP Stylebook, Jeff Atwood, Jeff Barr, Kent Beck, Shelly Brisbin, Ward Cunningham, Fake AP Stylebook, Michael Feathers, Pamela Fox, Bill Gates, Mike Hostetler, Jason Kottke, Andy Lester, Burke Libbey, Rachel Maddow, Craig Mod, Travis Nelson, Michael Nygard, Alexey Romanov, Clay Shirky, Gina Trapani, and Wil Wheaton.
Class is over. They finished in 3 tomatoes. They done good. — @squarepegsys
Yeah, we follow some odd tweeters, and you can follow us on twitter.