Links

This is a nearly static list of highly recommended articles. I post new links to my del.icio.us account with some frequency. You can subscribe it if you wish to keep up with those.

• How to Report Bugs Effectively
• How to help someone use a computer
• How to fix Mom’s computer
• Personal Firewall Security FAQ
• “Personal Firewalls” are mostly snake-oil
• One Question Certification Tests for E-Mail Filter Authors
• Challenge-Response Anti-Spam Systems Considered Harmful (see also An anti-challenge-response Xmas linkfest)
• AntiVirus / Bounce Spam
• A (not so) Short Rant / FAQ on the Subject of Signed E-Mail and Public Key Infrastructure
• What’s Your Threat Model?
• Axioms of Web architecture
• The System of the World Wide Web: How the Web won
• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
• Survival guide to i18n
• What the heck is a string
• Characters vs. Bytes
• Charsets
• HOWTO Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML
• Replace Conditional With Polymorphism
• Singleton Considered Stupid
• Programming by Coincidence
• Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You
• A Tirade Against the Cult of Performance
• What makes code hard to modify
• Five Lessons You Should Learn from Extreme Programming
• Technical Debt
• What I Hate About Your Programming Language
• The CADT Model
• Things You Should Never Do, Part Ⅰ and Rub a dub dub
• Lessons in Packaging Linux Applications
• Barnraising your IT
• Myths Open Source Developers Tell Ourselves
• The Hacker FAQ and The Manager FAQ
• How do we tell truths that might hurt?
• How to Deconstruct Almost Anything
• The Crooked Timber Of Software Development
• Why specs matter
• “Enterprise software” is a social, not technical, phenomenon
• Dabblers and Blowhards
• Why should I care what color the bikeshed is?
• Yak Shaving
• Time Management: The Pickle Jar Theory
• Intellectual-Property Patents Are Evil
• Celebrating Independence By Making Part of it Illegal

Referenced in Delicious.