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Finally -- a new book on programming

97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
http://97-things.near-time.net/wiki/97-things-every-software-architect-s...

Thwarting an internal hacker
http://schneier.com/essay-259.html

Real Ultimate Programming Power
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000856.html

How to save time and traffic upgrading with apt-proxy (comments mention apt-cacher and approx)
http://www.linux.com/feature/139213

Is programming an art or an engineering discipline? After so many years, programming still has a great mystique -- many of us get the feeling that we can start with the mysterious bits of code and build something -- it's much like making mud pies or snowmen, as we did so many years ago.

(With a Linux Live CD, we can take a dead computer and magically transform it into one that functions well.)

There have been few important works on programming -- "The Mythical Man-Month" is the first that comes to mind, and it's over 30 years old.

Mike