Courtney Love does the math, or Why you shouldn’t shed any tears for the music industry. Not just the math, but she points out that the real pirates are the labels themselves.

A longish interview with Joel Spolsky as part of the recently released Founders at work book.

Become a better programmer without programming, some sensible insights into what makes great developers.

24 years of game programming (part 1 and part 2), a developer’s experiences in game-development land.

… we did not (and still do not) believe in the standard multithreading model, which is preemptive concurrency with shared memory: we still think that no one can write correct programs in a language where ‘a=a+1’ is not deterministic. –HOPL-III: The Evolution of Lua

A negative, longish history of Microsoft’s PocketPC operating systems. While the number of marketing labels applied to WinCE is disturbing, we’ve actually found it to be a reasonable platform.

An interview with Allan Odgaard, creator of Textmate for Mac.

How constraints can be motivating, or how to prototype a game in under 7 days. A set of tips and tricks from 4 grad students who made over 50 games in a semester.

An explanation of why the KDE project switched to CMake (and how). So many build systems, so little time.

An interesting discussion at JoelOnSoftware about windowing toolkits for Windows.