We aren’t copy writers or social media experts; we’re programmers. We need to constantly foresee and prevent problems before they happen. Cultivating a healthy paranoia and a heavily pessimistic attitude is the path to becoming a better programmer. via Be a Paranoid Pessimistic Programmer | GrokCode.

L’Università di Berkley, in California, ha attivato il corso online “Software Engineering for Software as a Service”. Il corso fa parte di un’iniziativa che coinvolge diverse università americane e che intende portare gratuitamente sul Web gli insegnamenti accademici di diverse facoltà. via Programmazione.it :: Un corso online gratuito su Agile e SaaS.

    The short form of my post is that while patents (even software patents) are a good idea in principle, in practice they have turned into an unmitigated disaster and would be better scrapped. Cannot disagree… Thanks, Martin. via Martin Fowler on Software Patents | Agile Zone.

Quite simple. Introduction to CQRS – CodeProject.

Robert Morris, the cryptographer who helped create Unix, has died at the age of 78. Morris began his work on the groundbreaking OS back in 1970 at AT&Ts Bell Laboratories, where he played a major role in developing Unixs math library, password structure and encryption functions. via Robert Morris, man who helped develop Unix, dies [...]