Links for December 9th from 17:34 to 23:19: The Emacs Code Browser « Software bits and pieces – This is a very nice little guide to getting a nice code browser set up in emacs. It's cake, and it's cute. It does mean a few more shortcuts to remember, though… Stevey's Blog Rants: Code's Worst Enemy – "I happen to hold a hard-won minority opinion about code bases. In particular I believe, quite staunchly I might add, that the worst thing that can happen to a code base is size."

Links for December 9th from 16:09 to 16:09: Things You Should Never Do, Part I – Joel on Software – On code-rewriting: "It's important to remember that when you start from scratch there is absolutely no reason to believe that you are going to do a better job than you did the first time." Except, you know, hubris.

Links for December 3rd from 14:55 to 14:55: Yak Shaving – "You see, yak shaving is what you are doing when you're doing some stupid, fiddly little task that bears no obvious relationship to what you're supposed to be working on, but yet a chain of twelve causal relations links what you're doing to the original meta-task."

Links for December 2nd from 15:42 to 15:42: A List Apart: Articles: Flexible Fuel: Educating the Client on IA – This is certainly a different take on how to document a project than I'm used to in my day-to-day job. But, oh, wait. Documentation is for losers, evidently…

Links for December 1st from 09:54 to 09:54: Shaper_pmp comments on "If you're a web designer working alongside print designers with little to no web design/dev knowledge, how is your experience?" – "Teeth-grindingly annoying." Great comment, and it backs up my experience with designers of that sort perfectly.