Administrative Debris —
“I hold that simplicity is the most important attribute of design,” I say. To which Tufte would reply, “No, you don’t.”
tomayko.com
13:13
What Mongrel Isn't (Or, Write Your Own Damn Web Server) —
“All you have to do is change the internal processing, add 200 more methods to the HTTP parser, serve Bittorrent over Ethernet, and have it save Korean orphans while eating a Mango in the back seat of an El Camino driven by twenty midget clowns.”
mongrel.rubyforge.org
09:08
Software Development: Simplicity tops the agenda [infoworld.com] —
We won on my birthday :)
infoworld.com
16:27
KISS (or why MS CS students have a bad time in interviews ...) —
“Yet for some strange reason, the MScCS students seem to value fancy algorithms over working algorithms.”
iosn.net
00:42
discuss.joelonsoftware.com
08:04
Generics Considered Harmful —
Ouch! It would have been so much cooler if Java would have just dropped static typing completely.. :)
weblogs.java.net
23:28
Radical Simplification —
Everything I ever wanted to say about the current state of software development in ~50 slides. Thanks, Sam.
intertwingly.net
08:00
Abstractions vs Patterns —
Sam Ruby trying to put a definition to the word “simple”. Seriously, it’s not as easy to define as you think.
intertwingly.net
02:12