Redundancy. So we know some languages (*cough*java*cough*) thrive on verbosity and have a lot of redundancy. And we know redundancy interfers with your frontal debugging cortex. But how do you measure the amount of redundancy? Compress the source code! Eric did just that. Scientific? Maybe. But definitely a cool party trick.
Type casted. If marriage was strongly typed.
Pop! goes the bubble.
The software lifecycle. Kevin Barnes’s cynical and funny look at agile.
Put the simple in data. Dethe Elza and David Mertz apply the “simplest thing that works” principle when choosing data formats:
- JSON for data
- XML for documents (favoring XHTML unless there is a reason not to)
- Wrap it in Atom for syndication (and to support the APP)
Chipping the web – sluggers — Chip’s Quips