General

References

• Programming Language Reference Sheets
• Cheat-Sheets.org

Presentations

• 97 things every programmer should know - JAZOON 2010 keynote

Articles

• An Introduction to Software Factories
• 89 Ways for You to Become the Greatest Developer in the World
• The Maintainable Software Mindset
  The Four Pillars:
  1. KISS - KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID
  2. YAGNI - YOU AREN'T GOING TO NEED IT
  3. DRY - DON'T REPEAT YOURSELF
  4. STAY ORGANIZED
• Eliminate Architecture
  "The best way to deal with architecture is to eliminate it."
• Modularity by Example
• Lean Architecture: approach to architectural improvements
• The Three C’s of architecture
• 6 Practices For Successful Software Development Project
• NoSQL Ecosystem
• 8 Must-see UX Diagrams

Methodology

Agile

• Creating an Agile Environment
• Agile Ruined My Life
• Top 100 Agile Books (Edition 2011)

Scrum

• Introduction to Scrum---An Agile Process

Unified Process

• OpenUP -The Best of Two Worlds

Software Configuration Management

• The Importance of Branching Models in SCM

People

• When Good Developers Go Bad
• The 5 types of programmers

Software Architecture

General

• The Evolution of Systems Integration
• The 2nd Law of Software Development
• Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering
• 10 Must-Know Topics For Software Architects In 2009
• When Good Architecture Goes Bad - Talks about software erosion
• IaaS, PaaS and SaaS Terms Clearly Explained and Defined

Books

• The Architecture of Open Source Applications

Architecture Style

REST

• Common REST Design Pattern
• Why understanding REST is hard and what we should do about it – systematization, models and terminology for REST
• Devoxx 2010 LAB: ReST in Java

Software Design

Design Pattern

• Design Patterns
• Real world Java examples of GoF design patterns

Data, Context, and Interaction (DCI)

• Data, Context, and Interaction (Wikipedia)
• The DCI Architecture: A New Vision of Object-Oriented Programming - original article by the inventor of DCI (Trygve Reenskaug).
• DCI Cheat Sheet - see also http://www.maxant.co.uk/whitepapers.jsp
• Qi4j - Java framework for DCI
• Not Your Grandfather’s OO: Data Context Interaction
• DCI (Data, Context and Interaction), Traits, Roles - collection of articles on DCI
• The DCI Architecture - presentation by the contributor of DCI (James O. Coplien)

UML Modeling

Articles

• UML Overview (2002)

User Interface Design

• Diving Into The User Interface With Fundamental Questions