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A set of essays on software development and architecting practices.

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Just like the description says. Good URLs are really important (yes, vanderwal.net will get there one day) and this is a how to get there.

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Teaching computer science without computers so kids can understand

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Explaination and illustration of the difference between collaboration and collective social interaction.

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I am really impressed with this Paul Graham essay on development teams in large business. I have seen great developers lose their edge in large firms. I am intrigued by Paul's comment about flat development culture and market approach.

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A good list for reviewing new web products

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An information visualization toolset for the web, built on Flash and Flex

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Google is making a smart step in the world of social software building upon an open framework

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A really good overview and explanation through visualization of Fitts Law

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A nicely explained and probably understandable explanation of version control - I am continually need something like this when talking about versioning.

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Applications from the Nokia Beta Labs

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Twitter folks explain how they scaled their system

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Web design inspiration portal

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A follow-up piece on from the Forrester blog regarding the user

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A rather solid CSS overlay viewer that works in browers.

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A nice free tool for web developers to test responsiveness of their sites

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A quick look at the proposed HTML5 as it compares to HTML4 from the perspective of the W3C.

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Yahoo Research Berkeley has this gem of a mapping application that surfaces photos from Flickr and places them on a map and annotates the map with the metadata (tags) that are in Flickr.

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xSort is a card sorting application for Mac OS X developed to streamline the workflow of user experience professionals and social scientists.

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