Development

http://blog.asmartbear.com/software-quality-mortgage.html notes on what is technical debt in the project and how to deal with, and how to convince non-technical stake-holders in the project that the debt should be re-paid.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/RandomStuff/copilot_spec.pdf Example specs from Joel / copilot /

http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/java2ee/111102/#habracut Sample application/tutorial Spring 3 MVC + Spring Security + Hibernate

http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/development/111161/#habracut Review for open source and commercial echo canceling libraries

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35837/what-is-the-difference-between-mercurial-and-git thread on stackoverflow that contains several useful links comparing git and hg (mercurial)

http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/ collection of short articles / programing examples about perl6

http://libgit2.github.com/ normal git library, cab be used to create bindings to git (not libgit.a horror from official gir project )

http://www.insight-it.ru/masshtabiruemost/arkhitektura-vkontakte/ [ENG] http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.insight-it.ru%2Fmasshtabiruemost%2Farkhitektura-vkontakte%2F&sl;=ru&tl;=en&hl;=&ie;=UTF-8 some info about internals of vkontakte.ru - russian facebook clone, most popular social network in Russia, #34 in top100 websites according to alexa (btw, Flickr.com is #35).

http://codicesoftware.blogspot.com/2010/11/linus-on-branching.html START NEW BRANCHES FROM A KNOWN STABLE POINT. that’s it. the article (and Linus) basically explain why it’s bad to do otherwise

http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/ThemeBasecamp Link for redmine basecamp-like theme