We recently launched a new website, Wajapi, which allows users to discover books through people.

It allows users to

• Discover new books
• Follow what their friends are reading
• Show books on blogs

Wajapi is used to populate the booklist in the sidebar of this blog. The idea is that pasting such a booklist into any blog should be as easy as possible.

Wajapi also has an API interface so anyone who can code can write applications that interface with Wajapi.

Give it a go and tell us what you think: Go to Wajapi!

When the Linux kernel developers no longer had free access to BitKeeper, a proprietary version control system, Linus Torvalds couldn’t find a free replacement that met his needs. So he created his own: Git.

Slowly but surely, Git is conquering the world.

Today, a “social network for developers” based on the coolness of Git launched: GitHub.

One of the most impressing features of GitHub is their network visualiser. The visualiser shows open source software development in a whole new light. Very nice.

Once the book on Pragmatic Version Control With Git is out, I’ll have no excuse left not to convert to Git. All the cool kids seem to be using it. Git is in. Git is the new black.