People

1. Damian Conway, Perl
2. Robert Lang, Origamic Mathematician
3. Danny O'Brien, Social Commentary
4. Larry Wall, Creator of Perl
5. Dick Hardt, Identity 2.0, www.sxip.com
6. Saul Grifith, Squid labs, Howtoons
7. Drew Endy, Analysis, Design, and Synthesis of Biological Systems
8. Weather in Portland

Technologies

1. ActionStep UI Components for Flash, Osflash.org
2. Ruby
3. Sitemesh (An aggregator for web page design similar to portals)
4. Derby (Apache database)
5. Subversion (Next stage of CVS)

Significant Languages

1. Ruby
2. Python
3. Groovy

Open source databases

1. PostgreSQL
2. Mysql
3. Apache Derby

Other Interesting Technologies

1. xul and mozilla, and app development
2. sqlite
3. snort
4. PostgreSQL
5. ajax
6. mono
7. Sitemesh
8. Jetty
9. Blojsom
10. Tapestry
11. Make
12. Codezoo
13. Google labs
14. pmd
15. checkstyle
16. jalopy
17. jcoverage
18. jdepend
19. Sprog
20. Firefox
21. Webdav
22. Quotient Server
23. RSS and Atom