If you can't understand the spec for a new technology, don't worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won't be that important.

That's another flaw with performance-based rewards: They are easy for one of your competitors to top.

Nothing works better than just improving your product.

If your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site.

A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.

I've been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system - it simply has no redeeming merits to overcome the compatibility headaches it causes.

Last week I was listening to a podcast on Hanselminutes, with Robert Martin talking about the SOLID principles... They all sounded to me like extremely bureaucratic programming that came from the mind of somebody that has not written a lot of code, frankly.