Mike:

• http://www.jroller.com/RickHigh/entry/thanks_zed_btw_syntax_matters
• http://www.infoq.com/articles/coming-from-ruby

Asif:

• http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/12.html
• http://ola-bini.blogspot.com/2008/01/viability-of-java-and-stable-layer.html

Travis:

• http://blogs.payscale.com/ask_dr_salary/2008/01/software-develo.html
• (The following two go together, read the faq first):
  http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/faq.php
  http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all

Pravesh:

• Developers Shift to Dynamic Programming Languages - http://portal.computer.org/portal/cms_docs_computer/computer/homepage/Feb07/COM_012-015.pdf
• Groovy or JRuby -
  http://martinfowler.com/bliki/GroovyOrJRuby.html

Ben:

• http://blogs.activestate.com/activestate/2008/02/ready-set-go-pe.html
• http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/080205/0357646.html

Brian:

• http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/05/ruby-threading-futures
• http://antoniocangiano.com/2007/12/03/the-great-ruby-shootout/

Temphy:

• http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/18/technology/kirkpatrick_deals.fortune/index.htm
• http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/02/05/microsoft.yahoo.ap/index.html
  

Vasudha:

• http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CheaperTalentHypothesis.html
• http://andersnoras.com/blogs/anoras/archive/2008/02/03/a-jerk-in-the-land-of-a-hundred-languages.aspx
  

Ranga:

• http://wordaligned.org/articles/pitching-python-in-three-syllables
• http://www.dekorte.com/blog/blog.cgi?do=item&id=2735

Debbie:

• http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/02/07/lisp_arc_challenge/
• http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/09/25/ruby_rails_scripting_project_failure_2_0/

Kurt:

• http://www.infoq.com/articles/From-Java-to-Ruby--Risk
• http://www.infoq.com/articles/changing-the-present-case-stud
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/02/grails-1.0-released

Jason:

• http://blogs.tedneward.com/2008/02/02/Diving+Into+The+GrailsvsRails+Wars+Or+Here+We+Go+Again.aspx
• http://relevancellc.com/2008/1/18/i-like-turtles

Katie:

• http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/SortingResumes.html
• http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/CrossTalk/2008/01/0801DewarSchonberg.html

Chris:

• http://www.infoq.com/interviews/mccarthy-elephant-2000
• http://www.infoq.com/articles/internal-dsls-java

Safiya
Manish
Jon
Narisi

Manish:

• http://fredbrunel.com/journal/2007/04/5-mistakes-you-should-know-when-using-ruby-on-rails-in-your-company/
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-rubyonrails/

Safiya:

• http://bill.burkecentral.com/2008/02/04/dynamic-languages-rationalizations-and-myths/
• http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/2008/02/05/static-languages-rationalizations-and-myths/

Jon:

• http://ajaxian.com/archives/yui-25-released-layout-manager-file-uploader-and-graphical-javascript-profiler-and-that-is-just-the-start
• http://www.hanselman.com/blog/KnowingWhenToAskForHelpMicrosoftSharedView.aspx
• http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23037164/

Narisi:

• http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-03/mf_signals
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/02/waves-ruby-framework

Mike:

• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/blogs/showblog.tss?id=GroovyReview
• http://java.dzone.com/news/groovy-will-replace-java-langu
• http://www.pcmech.com/article/creating-a-poi-database-using-google-earth-and-kml2csv

Travis:

• http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516178/
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/07/grails-misconceptions
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/01/grails-enterprise

Asif:

• http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/01/boost-java-test
• http://ruby.dzone.com/news/farewell-j-jvm
• http://vladimirvivien.com/blogs/ot/2008/03/using-groovys-factorybuildersupport-to.html

Ben

• http://damienkatz.net/2008/03/what_sucks_abou.html
• http://www.hostexpress.com.au/drupal/?q=lisp

Pravesh

• http://www.cio.com/article/191000/You_Used_Ruby_to_Write_WHAT_/1

Ranga:

• http://www.news.com/8301-10787_3-9903704-60.html?tag=nefd.pop
• http://flexblog.faratasystems.com/?p=273

Vasudha:

• http://www.cio.com/article/193750/You_Used_THAT_Programming_Language_to_Write_What_
• http://ajaxian.com/archives/nitobi-survey-results-on-ajax-development

Temphy:

• http://www.forbes.com/technology/forbes/2008/0310/052.html
• http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/03/26/census.problems.ap/index.html

Debbie:

• http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/03/14/java_platform_scripting_languages/
• http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/03/13/web_development_needs_method/

Jason:

• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html
• http://articles.tlug.jp/Windows_Is_Free

Katie:

• http://casperfabricius.com/blog/2008/04/01/ruby-fools-dave-thomas-keynote/
• http://www.infoq.com/articles/From-Java-to-Ruby--Risk

Chris:

• "MS buys SpringSource" http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/04/microsoft-springsource-purchase
• "Cyclomatic Complexity" http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/03/cyclomaticcomplexity
• http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-as-an-applescript-replacement-811.html

Kurt:

• http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/03/jdl_shootout
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RubyCocoa

Safiya:

• http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/07/google-jumps-head-first-into-web-services-with-google-app-engine/
• http://www.railsjedi.com/posts/27-Best-of-Railscasts

Jon:

• http://www.gmjjavadesigns.com/gmjd/entry/netbeans_6_1_beta_so
• http://www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=22298
• http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080408-analysis-google-app-engine-alluring-will-be-hard-to-escape.html
• http://ejohn.org/blog/ruby-vm-in-javascript/

Manish:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQbuyKUaKFo&feature=related
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1NVfDlU6yQ