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lesscode.org: "The Web thrives not because it uses a strict architectural style and a coherent technology stack. It thrives because so many sites pay little attention to REST and choose to focus on their users instead. It thrives because malformed HTML pages include GIFs and PNGs and Flash and badly written JavaScript that just works. It thrives because people go on the Web to send e-mail, IM, do VoIP and trade BitTorrent files."

lesscode.org: "email, contact list, calendaring, meeting scheduling, blogging, idea management, note taking, project management, personal task list, IM, VOIP, search"

webservices.xml.com: Second Generation Web Services: "Summary: Any business problem can be thought of as a data resource manipulation problem and HTTP is a data resource manipulation protocol."

You'd better have your fun before it moves along..:

"... two many things ... "

Sztywny Blog - Stiff asks, great programmers answer: "Dave Thomas:
The next big thing in computer programming will be eclipsed by the next�next big thing in programming, and so on, and so on. I�m kinda tired of the endless search for the big things, because while doing it people tend to forget about the real issues: getting the fundamentals right. We need to get a whole lot better at talking with our customers, focussing on delivering value, and taking pride in what we do. A developer who can do these things can deliver great software with any tool set, and won�t need to worry about tracking the fads and fashions."

Sztywny Blog - Stiff asks, great programmers answer: "Tim Bray:
Ability to prefer evidence to intuition."

Most important skills for a programmer:

David Heinemeier Hansson:
A strong sense of value. The ability to ask yourself the question: Is it worth doing what I'm doing right now? So many programmers seem to waste oceans of time on stuff that just doesn�t matter. And not enough on the stuff that does.