There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. –C.A.R. Hoare

A most-excellent calendar in CSS, based on a OL.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction – Albert Einstein

BUS is a simple interactive fiction engine written in Python. It includes a basic world model and NL parser.

A very thorough Rails rant by a Perl developer (in the JoelOnSoftware groups), including a lengthy set of comments. The rant mirrors a lot of what I’ve found with Rails, which is that it’s a great fit for the simple stuff (but not so much for harder problems).

A simple Javascript code highlighter.

SimpleBits (creators of slick icons) talks about the Anatomy of an Icon.

A web2.0ish code-free form builder, an interesting way to develop simple surveys and stuff. Looks almost usable for normal people.

Ruport is a Ruby reporting library that can hook into ActiveRecord, CSV, or SQL/DBI. It has a simple formatting language, can produce PDFs and graphs, and even does some code generation to make things easy.

What makes a unit test? A simple set of rules to help you understand how to keep ‘em simple.