philosophy

1. Start a content driven site. Slashdot, Ars Technica, and PlanetSourceCode are all great examples of sites that do not explicitly sell products or services, but make money anyway.

At the heart of every language is a core set of ideals that give the language its direction and purpose. If you really want to understand the choices that language designers make--why they choose one feature over another or one way of expressing a feature over another--the best place to start is with the reasoning behind the choices.