Links

Monday, Feb 11 2008, 19:02 EST

Link log

The following sections are pretty static lists of all-time greatest must-read articles. For a continuous feed of things I’ve found keep- or share-worthy, even if it didn’t make its way in here, take a look at my del.icio.us link log (which you can subscribe).

Readworthy people

Bruce Schneier
Jamie Zawinsky
Joel Spolsky
Karsten M. Self
Kevin Barnes
Mark Jason Dominus
Mark Pilgrim
Paul Graham
Peter Norvig
Steve Yegge (weblog)

Readworthy articles

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 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

Web related stuff:

When and how to use internet image formats
Mandatory Java/Javascript Considered Harmful
CSS Positioning
Slash Forward (Some URLs are Better Than Others)
Five Mistakes Band & Label Sites Make

Plasma storms

Since it’s really hard to Google for plasmasturm or plasma storm without getting tons of stupid Star Trek related hits or fishing through a sea of silly lamp merchandise, I’ll be jotting down some good links about the topic here. If you want to have a look for yourself, you should probably try a query like sun plasma storm -lamp -ball -trek in order to filter at least most of the noise.

UCLA – IGPP Space Physics Tutorial/ Magnetospshere
NASA – Science: Watching the Angry Sun
Calm before the storm? – www.smh.com.au
NASA – Goddard Space Flight Center: Earth’s space storm shield offers protection at a price