Simplicity or Flexibility?

Sergio has a nice blog entry about the Flexibility vs Simplicity
dilema that developers are constantly in.

It reminds me of a project we both worked in where we ended with
a piece of code that would accept any kind of entries
(configurable), classify them in a certain (configurable) way, do
any kind of transformations (configurable) and save the result. So
we ended with a product that could do almost anything but demanded
a lot of configuration effort.

From href="http://blog.portugalmail.pt/K/archive/000090.html">blog.portugalmail.pt.



The Parable of the Languages

If programming languages could talk. Kind of funny.

From href="http://weblog.burningbird.net/archives/000581.php">weblog.burningbird.net.



United Linux

set to be released the 19th of November.

From href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27545.html">www.theregister.co.uk.