In case you missed it #29

For Writing Software, a Buddy System , an article in the New York Times about pair programming at Hashrocket.
Learning advanced Javascript by John Resig, a great tutorial on functions, objects, prototypes, closures and more in Javascript.
FLOSS Weekly this time with Kent Beck XP where pair programming, TDD and modular software design are discussed.
Ruby and Hadoop Quickstart, where they take you through the process of setting up Hadoop on EC2 using Cloudera.
Learnivore is a Ruby screencast aggregator.
Ruby and RFID tags is a really interesting post on reading RFID tags from Ruby, using the libnfc library along with the Ruby bindings written by the author and distributed as a gem.
Which open source license is best?, a debate around the GPL, EPL, and BSD licenses with some FLOSS heavyweights. An informative and entertaining watch - after the 13 minute intro.

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