Aneel makes an argument for "tools vs. methods". To summarize, should tools enforce the methodology or methodology the tool.

Tools need to move when we do. And they need to be made to be moved by us. But, not in a vacuum. The idea of user-driven innovation should be built into professional tools. In organizations where [...]

I’m a big fan of Google Docs. One of my favorite features is "Revisions": when a file is saved, an immutable state or versioned is saved and can be recalled. With a simple drop down box, I can restore a previous version.
Later, I’m talking with my brother-in-law about upcoming features of Mac OS X 10.5. [...]

Isn’t Web Beans not just a little embarrassing, but an extremely painful admission for the Java world? Do not read this as an attack on Web Beans itself, but the implications represented by its mere existence. What problems is it solving? It is a solution for JEE 5’s current complexity, which was (JPA in particular) [...]

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I have a sneaking suspicion that existing customer sets will not replace Java, there is way too much invested in the language, the libraries, the VM and in J2EE application servers. The change has to come from a new customer set.
Not only new customer sets, [...]

I think my list is indicative that I divide my attention too thin:

Java’s Fear of Commitment

ObjectGrid v6.1 User Guide

Grails Object Relational Mapping

Exhibit Examples from the SMILE project

World of Resources in Rails

Planet Venus Code

Robaccia Code

PLEAC-Python

Publishing a blog from a mod_atom store

Apache DBCP

The Power of Google Gears

Plaggar

Form to GData Spreadsheet

Python dispatch

RBatis