• Understanding understanding source code with FMRI: how does the brain understands source code? What areas are involved? Thanks to this research, now we know:

I wonder how does this fit with another partially-related publication, The Experience of Mathematical Beauty and its Neural Correlates: could well-structured, clean code with idioms and patterns produce the same neural experience of beauty?

• Visual Programming Languages: quick glance over dozens of VPLs.
• Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation: the first computer book to be awarded an Oscar! And open-source!
• Node.js is the biggest innovation in web development in years: this comparison with Java gives a little insight on its performance improvements.
• Common types of trading algorithms: a list of trading algorithms, with source code and some benchmarking. The Quantopian community is growing fast!