Art in Programming

Really, just a bunch of interesting tid-bits in the Pragmatic Programmer's style.

Troubleshooting Internet Explorer

I've always said, Windows is non-deterministic. That is, for any two identical pieces of hardware running identically installed Windows software, the two machines will behave differently. This phenomenon increases over time--the longer a particular installation of Windows has been in existence, the more its behavior will diverge from its original baseline.

Internet Explorer is no exception

WHY FEATURES DON'T MATTER ANYMORE: THE NEW LAWS OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

Some good comments about why more features is bad. This article itself covers a lot of ground--why simple stylistic tools like iPod succeed--why simple features define your product. I like #5 and #6 especially when it comes to design of a complex feature set in a product. These are rules to design by.

Also see every time you add something you take something away

How to you spell extortion? N-T-P is a good start.

It's sad that the patent system works like this. A system designed to protect the innovator and the "little guy" is turned into a tool of extortionists like NTP as RIM agrees to pay $600M.