I saw Martin Fowler speak on Thursday at the New England Java User Group. He seems to know a lot about a wide array of topics in the software world. Since he has a blog now I’ll probably get to reading it more frequently. I was also happy to hear he was a fan of my preferred IDE Eclipse. It’s pretty impressive that he’s considered expert in UML, Refactoring, Design Patterns, and Agile development methodologies.

You read so many articles with random facts and figures from this source or that. NationMaster.com has a pretty interesting site with a lot of different statistics gathered in one place, and provides tools for creating your own graphs and such. Very neat. Their sources are listed here.