- Ken Arnold — Style Is Substance
- Leon Bambrick — Award for the Silliest User Interface: Windows Search
- Michael Bean — The Pitfalls of Outsourcing Programmers
- Rory Blyth — Excel as a Database
- Adam Bosworth — ICSOC04 Talk
- danah boyd — Autistic Social Software
- Raymond Chen — Why Not Just Block the Apps That Rely on Undocumented Behavior?
- Kevin Cheng and Tom Chi — Kicking the Llama
- Cory Doctorow — Save Canada’s Internet from WIPO
ea_spouse — EA: The Human Story- Bruce Eckel — Strong Typing vs. Strong Testing
- Paul Ford — Processing Processing
- Paul Graham — Great Hackers
- John Gruber — The Location Field is the New Command Line
- Gregor Hohpe — Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit
- Ron Jeffries — Passion
- Eric Johnson — C++ — The Forgotten Trojan Horse
- Eric Lippert — How Many Microsoft Employees Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?
- Michael “Rands” Lopp — What to do when you’re screwed
- Larry Osterman — Larry’s Rules of Software Engineering #2: Measuring Testers by Test Metrics Doesn’t
- Mary Poppendieck — Team Compensation (PDF, 1.0 MB)
- Rick Schaut — Mac Word 6.0
- Clay Shirky — A Group is its Own Worst Enemy
- Clay Shirky — Group as User: Flaming and the Design of Social Software
- Eric Sink — Closing the Gap (Part 2)
- Eric Sink — Hazards of Hiring
- Aaron Swartz — PowerPoint Remix
- why the lucky stiff — A Quick (and Hopefully Painless) Ride Through Ruby (with Cartoon Foxes)
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- Kiran Jonnalagadda (jace) wrote,
Introduction to Best Software Writing I
Joel Spolsky’s new book. If you can’t buy it, read the individual pieces online: