links for 2009-03-25

by grant on March 25, 2009

How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary

To be a good programmer is difficult and noble. The hardest part of making real a collective vision of a software project is dealing with one's coworkers and customers. Writing computer programs is important and takes great intelligence and skill. But it is really child's play compared to everything else that a good programmer must do to make a software system that succeeds…

(tags: software development programming)
Top 10 Tips for WordPress Plugin Developers

For all WordPress plugin developers out there, from newbies to professionals, here are the top 10 tips to make your job easier.

(tags: wordpress plugin development)
Dead Simple Guide to Beating Procrastination | Zen Habits

For those of you who want to beat procrastination, here are 10 simple steps.

(tags: productivity motivation work lifehacks)

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- Tiny apartment shows the value of a good fit
  "I tend to like things in their place."
- Radical Opacity
  Christopher Poole created 4chan, an online community where people are free to be wrong. Now big investors want a piece of his ideas.
- Arithmetic and Butter
  Perhaps all scientists hope for accidental discoveries. I seem to be the first to use a research strategy that relies on accidental discoveries.
- SWFTOOLS
  SWFTools is a collection of utilities for working with Adobe Flash files (SWF files). The tool collection includes programs for reading SWF files, combining them, and creating them from other content (like images, sound files, videos or sourcecode). SWFTools is released under the GPL.
- Getting in (and Out of) Line - NYTimes.com
  As with lines over scrums, markets have much to offer over lines. They are more efficient. They work well for those fortunate enough to have more disposable money than free time. They mop up much of the daily agony of waiting.