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I saw an interesting blog entry by Jimmy Nilsson this week and it made me stop and think.

The entry discusses a few current development topics and the buzz around each one, and I wondered how many people I knew would be familiar with each of the subjects. The people that I think would know are also the most effective and well-rounded developers I know.

How well-read are you? Are you staying up to date on the latest developments outside of your own silo of work? (There's a blog entry in the whole silo idea... if time permits I'll write that one up in the next week.) Are you slowly becoming a Technical Idiot Savant or are you staying current in your field?

Here's Jimmy's blog enty: Language innovations aren't unimportant after all?

Before you think I'm just pointing fingers, I hadn't heard of one of the topics either! :)

Enjoy!

Jared

btw, Will and I got a nice interview printed in the October edition of Software Development Magazine. It's a page within a nice article by Mike Reilly titled The Proof Is Out There. It's a portion of the podcast interview we did with Mike a month or two ago. Last month's editino had a very favorable review of the book as well! -jrr