Elliotte Rusty Harold: Why REST Failed
This is the clearest and most concise explanation of REST that I have yet encountered, including why it’s not all there yet. (In spite of the title it’s not really hostile… Read more »
Category: Software Development
Microsoft Privacy Guidelines
This contains Microsoft’s official guidelines for protecting user privacy in desktop and web applications. They cover mostly user-interface issues rather than Windows-specific technical details. If you are a software developer… Read more »
5 Principles For Programming
Simple but deep: Empathy Box :: 5 Principles For Programming
How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot in Any Programming Language
fullduplex.org How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot in Any Programming Language
Links to essays in Best Software Writing I
brevity.org — Links to essays in Best Software Writing I
Good Agile, Bad Agile
Steve Yegge has a long post on Agile development methods. (via Joel Spolsky): Stevey’s Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Actually this is mostly about how Google develops software. Never… Read more »
Calling COM from ASP.NET
If you want to call old-style COM components from an ASP.NET page, or worse, from an ASP.NET web service, be sure to read this article carefully first: Wicked Code: Running… Read more »
The Problem with FeedBurner
A lot of weblogs and similar sites use feedburner.com to generate custom RSS feeds. This gives a lot of flexibility, but it has a hidden disadvantage: your feeds will not… Read more »
Security Engineering book
Security Engineering – A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems by Ross Anderson is now available on-line.
Contract-First Web Service Development
I just gave a talk on Contract-First web service development using .NET tools. The slides are available here.