Cloud
Why You Should Use Cloud Services
Code
7 Villains You Have To Crush When Learning to Code
The Carrying-Cost of Code: Taking Lean Seriously
Boldly refactoring complex code
Merge Headache — Don’t Re-Purposes a class, create a new one - Excellent tip from CodeBetter.com!
Battery
Batteriser is a $2.50 gadget that extends disposable battery life by 800 percent
Better battery life for your laptop - Google Chrome Blog
Bug
These 8 characters crash Skype, and once they’re in your chat history, the app can’t start
Building
How to build resilient Scrum teams ?
Choosing a JavaScript Framework [Infographic] - Between AngularJS, Backbone.js and Ember
TDD
Getting Started with Test-Driven Development - My Left Hand
Does TDD really lead to good design?
Quality
Why the way we look at technical debt is wrong
“A reminder, here, though — technical debt is not buggy code or systems that are broken. That isn’t technical debt, and that will harm your product.”
Toward Quality Automation in the World of Continuous Everything
“Quality can not be inspected into a product or service; it must be built into it.” W. Edwards Deming
Loyalty and Longevity
Management
Fixing Engineering’s Loyalty and Longevity Problem
Various
Distributed Systems Are a UX Problem
Blocking and asynchronous operations without timeout are broken
New Performance Tools in Firefox Developer Edition 40
Deploying branches to GitHub.com - GitHub Engineering
What’s the deal with Windows 10 for the Non-Technical Friend - Scott Hanselman