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5 Free E-Books on Haskell
There's been a lot of love lately for Clojure (which Heroku now supports), Scala (used at Twitter among other places) and Erlang (used by Facebook among other places). But if you're interested in functional programming, don't forget about Haskell.
R Programming Wikibook Project Seeks Contributors
The R Programming book on Wikibooks is seeking contributors.
If you're an R programmer looking for a way to give back to the community, this could be a good project for you.
Jimmy Wales Joins Open Textbook Organization
Wikipedia and Wikia co-founder Jimmy Wales has just joined the advisory board of CK-12 Foundation - a nonprofit organization that provides standards-aligned online textbooks to kindergarten to grade 12 students. One key element of the organization includes offering "FlexBooks" - a product that allows educators and students to create and edit their own open-content teaching materials. Users can add chapters to existing texts or create completely new material using the Flexr tool.
Marshall Kirkpatrick Joins RWW as VP Content Development
I'm very pleased to announce that Marshall Kirkpatrick has joined ReadWriteWeb in a full-time capacity, as our new Vice President of Content Development. The grand title reflects Marshall's senior position within ReadWriteWeb, where he will be responsible for driving a lot of our upcoming content developments. These include premium content, publishing system enhancements, and more magic things. Marshall will also continue to be ReadWriteWeb's Lead Writer, so don't worry his writing isn't taking a backseat at all. He will be going full-time at RWW sometime over the next couple of weeks.
AOL Tells Angry Blogger Staff: Everything is Fantastic
AOL Senior VP of Programming Marty Moe held a conference call for all the bloggers in the Weblogs Inc. network this afternoon, a week after cutbacks and work slowdowns across the network put staff into a panic and shed a negative light on the business of blogging in general. Moe told staff that in fact, Weblogs Inc. is growing fast, seeing record traffic and consistent revenue growth.
Immediate staff reactions though have been anything but positive. While Moe tells a story of aggressive growth, we're hearing that the bloggers who made the business are feeling manipulated and let down.
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