Jess Harvell is my new hero and I want Santa to give him ten billion dollars for Christmas.

I own a Nikon D80 with a 50mm f/1.4. In the next two days, I'm going to make another lens purchase: a wide-angle zoom. To coalesce some of the discourse on a recent movement back towards fixed lenses in favor of quality optics over the compositional freedom of a (usually f/2.8 at best) zoom, here are links to four trenchant blog posts.

In-depth article by Jono DiCarlo about the pitfalls and peaks of community-based software engineering.