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"With this post, based solely on my own opinion, I wanted to give those people the simple yes or no answer to their question, and here it is: "Is Silverlight dead 2012?" Yes, it is. IF and ONLY IF your target is Joe Blow playing FarmVille on his iPad while watching "[YourCountryHere] got talent"."

"Instead of waiting until the end of a project to ask 'what worked and what didn't, why not use regular retrospective analysis as part of the development process  to find out what is, and isn't, working, and learn from the conclusions there and then?"

"When a new IT solution is needed in an enterprise, maybe because the business is changing or maybe because an existing manual process should be automated, the people who are in charge of implementing the solution usually quickly get to the question: should we build the solution or should we buy a package?"

"[..] we're surprised that people don't generally feel motivated to improve quality because we vastly underrate the value of the familiar."

"Some of my favorite blog posts that I've read in the last several years focus on the subject of developer turnover, and I think that these provide an excellent backdrop for this subject. The oldest one that I'll list, by Bruce Webster, is called "The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea Effect," and it coins an excellent term for a phenomenon with which we're all probably vaguely aware on either a conscious or subconscious level. The "Dead Sea Effect" is a description of some organizations' tendency to be so focused on retention that they inadvertently retain mediocre talent while driving better talent away"

"Because frameworks are so good at making decisions for us, we get lazy. Instead of thinking hard about how to build a clean system with crisp abstractions, we think about what the framework would want us to do, regardless of whether the resulting code is clean."

"This article aims to describe why I think that DDD aids you tremendously in creating robust and flexible applications."

"The good news is there are many entrepreneurs and inventors that agree with me and they are currently building new and better ways for us to interact with computers."

A great TED talk about applying Agile principle outside the workplace.

"Lately I've been talking a lot about rich client applications written in HTML and JavaScript. These are frequently referred to as "SPAs" (Single Page Applications). I call them SPAs myself - it's cute and flows easily off the tongue. Unfortunately the phrase "single page application" badly misrepresents the true nature of this architectural style."

"When Eric Schmidt makes grand pronouncements about the industry, he's probably not just blowing smoke. You should listen to him. And when he repeated his claim, during an interview this week with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, that the tech world is ruled by just four giants-Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook-Schmidt was right on."