Shanti’s Dispatches

Tim O’Reilly hacks book sales data to glean information about various platforms’ popularity:

There were no books about Ruby on Rails in the first quarter of last year, so there was a choice of representing the growth as either infinite, or zero.

Given that one book about Ruby on Rails is delivering nearly the same unit sales as the 20 books that make up the JSP category, nearly one-fifth of the sales of the 61 books in the ASP category, and one-sixth of the 52 books in the PHP category, one would have to conclude that RoR is hot. And of course, there are many more books on the way.

Pretty impressive stuff. And don’t give me any of that “well MY language is so easy we don’t even need to buy books” crap! I have a whole stack of PHP, ASP, and RoR books sitting on my shelf.

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