There is a long ongoing battle between GPL zealots and BSD fanatics, about which license type is the most free of the two. In fact, both license types have unacceptable obnoxious clauses (such as reproducing a huge disclaimer that is written in all caps) that severely restrain our freedoms. The WTFPL can solve this problem.

« I'm gradually coming to the conclusion that software engineering is an idea whose time has come and gone. Software development is and always will be somewhat experimental. The actual software construction isn't necessarily experimental, but its conception is. And this is where our focus ought to be. It's where our focus always ought to have been. » __ Tom DeMarco

Companion site for the "Ultimate CSS/HTML Reference" books. Comprehensive documentation.

XRAY is a bookmarklet for Internet Explorer 6+, and Webkit and Mozilla based browsers (including Safari, Firefox, Camino or Mozilla). Use it to see the box model for any element on any web page.

"Sonar enables to collect, analyze and report metrics on source code. Sonar not only offers consolidated reporting on and across projects throughout time, but it becomes the central place to manage code quality."

"Nietzsche would have been right at home on an ugly team: what does not kill the ugly team makes the ugly team stronger." "Real heroes are ugly. [...] In spite of their failings, they find ways to achieve, betting everything on passion, persistence, and imagination. [...] For these reasons, when things get tough, it's the ugly teams that win. People from ugly teams expect things to go wrong and show up anyway. They conquer self-doubt, make friendships under fire, and find magic in ideas that others abandon."

Abstract: In many environments, multi-threaded code is written in a language that was originally designed without thread support (e.g. C), to which a library of threading primitives was subsequently added. [...] We provide specific arguments that a pure library approach, in which the compiler is designed independently of threading issues, cannot guarantee correctness of the resulting code. [...]

Excerpt: "Data mining is the process of extracting hidden patterns from data. As more data is gathered data mining is becoming an increasingly important tool to transform this data into information. It is commonly used in a wide range of profiling practices, such as marketing, surveillance, fraud detection and scientific discovery."

"singletons are unnecessarily difficult to test and may make strong assumptions about the applications that will use them [...] I know where you live anti-pattern [...] Liskov Substitution Principle". "To decide whether a class is truly a singleton: * Will every application use this class exactly the same way? (exactly is the key word) * Will every application ever need only one instance of this class? (ever and one are the key words) * Should the clients of this class be unaware of the application they are part of?"

* Introduce a global state in the program, hide the dependencies. * Test-driven development: classes become tightly coupled with the singleton. Need to test the singleton along with the class to be tested initially.

Software Developer's Manuals: * Volume 1: Basic Architecture. * Volume 2A&B: Instruction Set Reference. * Volume 3A&B: System Programming Guide. * Optimization Reference Manual. * Memory Ordering White Paper. * Application Note: TLBs, Paging-Structure Caches, and Their Invalidation. * x2APIC Specification.

Describes all of the GoF patterns (Creational / Structural / Behavioral) using 2 UML diagrams: One presenting the pattern, one for an example. There's not a lot of verbal description though.