Via Bridging the gap between Interface and Implementation : A nice article explaining the importance of Bridge Pattern

The Timeless Way of Building The Timeless Way of Building is a 1979 book that ties life and architecture together, written by Christopher Alexander. It is considered by many to be one of the major, seminal texts of the twentieth century.[citation needed] It has had a huge influence on creative thinking, especially in the areas of architecture and software design. It could be classified as one of what the Estonian researcher of the Orient Linnart Mäll calls the humanistic base texts.

Thanks TP Via TP: What do I mean by good people? One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. Could you describe the person as an animal? It might be hard to translate that into another language, but I think everyone in the US knows what it means. It means someone who takes their work a little too seriously; someone who does what they do so well that they pass right through professional and cross over into obsessive.

Via : 7 Habits of Highly Innovative People

Via : Groupware Bad Narrow the focus. Your “use case” should be, there’s a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?