Reading materials
Articles that have influenced my learnings.
Big Ball of Mud
A must-read essay by Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder for every programmer, if he/she wishes to understand where The Daily WTF types of code come from and how to avoid them.
Visit: http://www.laputan.org/mud/
Good designers copy, great designers steal
How to ask questions the smart way
In the world of hackers, the kind of answers you get to your technical questions depends as much on the way you ask the questions as on the difficulty of developing the answer. This guide will teach you how to ask questions in a way more likely to get you a satisfactory answer.
Visit: Eric S. Raymond, Rick Moen
How to Grok web standards
Think like a writer. Think like an engineer. Think like a designer.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Eric Raymond's classic essay on the open source software development paradigm.
The Law of Leaky Abstractions
Joel Spolsky's law: "All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky." or the danger that lurks behind the layers of abstraction that have been created for programmers to make our lives easier. Point 'n' click programming is really bad!
What business can learn from open source
...the three big lessons open source and blogging have to teach business: (1) that people work harder on stuff they like, (2) that the standard office environment is very unproductive, and (3) that bottom-up often works better than top-down.
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