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One of my goals this year is to acquire new skills, so I've decided to start by learning JavaScript.

As was the case when I learned html and CSS, it's a tricky endeavor, because I'm not exactly a beginner, and most stuff is geared toward beginners, which can make learning so inefficient that I lose my motivation.

For those who can't make it to the first

O'Reilly Radar: "We all have to celebrate the career of Steve Jobs and thank him for the tremendous improvements he has brought to computer interfaces and hardware. "

Oregon Live: "Thousands of software developers will converge on Portland this week for the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, or OSCON.

The conference, one of the largest gatherings of its kind, runs Monday through Friday at the Oregon Convention Center."

O'Reilly Radar: "In the interview, Quinn shares insights about applying open source to data management and combining public data with experimental data."

We will live stream the Velocity Web Performance and Operat

O'Reilly Radar: "A live demonstration of the opensourced code for IT Dashboard is now online. The IT Dashboard code is available at SourceForge.net and is released under a GNU Public License (GPL).

A bug tracker and other resources are also online."

O'Reilly: "The economic news today was good: the U.S. unemployment rate is down to 8.9% and hiring is up in the private sector.

For those who are looking for an IT position right now there is one thing the improving economy won't help: the sad state of technical recruiting today."

A bunch of folks have been sending in the recent post by Jono Bacon over at O'Reilly Radar about how his band, Severed Fifth, is trying to "reinvent the music business" by taking lessons from the open source world.

It's an interesting article, but I was a bit disappointed in it, frankly. The plan he describes has been done already by a bunch of musicians, and yet Bacon presents it as if it's brand new and only they've thought of it.