Book sales by and large provide a fair picture of what’s buzzing in
technology and what might be the technology to watch out for in the
near future. There’s certainly an assumption in this that all
books are well written and well marketed and they are being bought
based solely on reader interest in the technology.
Tim
O’Reilly in a recent
post has noted which books and technologies are hitting
the mark for O’Reilly. Here are some of the highlights –
“A lot of people have missed just how
much Flash is on a roll. Ajax
books have slowed down considerably, while books on Macromedia’s
Adobe’s web technologies are really moving.”
“I noted that the AJAX meme seems to
be waning, but that doesn’t mean
that the underlying technologies of AJAX are suffering. Javascript: The
Definitive Guide continues to be one of our all time bestsellers. “
“C# continues to gain significantly
on Java in terms of book
sales…”
“What’s notably missing from the
bestseller lists: books on programming
languages (besides Javascript). The top programming language books in
last week’s bookscan report were Learning Python, followed closely by
the just-released Head First C#. Books on Java, Perl, PHP, and yes,
even Ruby, are well down the list. Books on Linux, MySQL, and security
ditto. In the professional computer area, networking, software
engineering, and database books that weren’t specific to any particular
database product were the overall winners.”
Do you think these facts depict a true picture of what’s happening in technology? Which technologies do you think are hot and buzzing?
Reference – A Year in O’Reilly Books (2007)
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Written by Content Team on January 10, 2008
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