‘Tis the season for brown leaves, pumpkin pie and conferences. The Linker barely saw his office at all last week. Nothing quite like a bad sandwich in a box, endless vendor talks and free pens to keep the spirits up.

Everything that’s wrong with Java in a single class…

The A/B testing life cycle…

Free online MongoDB training from 10gen…

A return to the Linux workstation…

jQuery 1.8.2 released…

Shake: Every program can be a Clojure function.

Comparing Go and Erlang…

Today’s random Wikipedia entry: Gunpowder