Random Web Links for 2008-02-05

• Ned Batchelder: Jimiyo fine art sprites - sprite art taking to a whole new level ... Link look a little crazy though
• K. Scott Allen : Three Rules for Database Work - Good rules b/c my current project doesn't follow them and has all the problems
• xkcd - Real Programmers - if Big Red and I had ever gotten our autonomous web agents running the world, we could have said that we programmed by mentalics
• Dilbert 2008-02-01 - thats what Google Reader is for
• Programmers significantly underpaid - the real shame is that people in education (teaching tomorrow's adults, who might want to be programmers) don't get paid as well as we do. Not that we should get paid less, but them more. ;-)
• When C Becomes too slow ... - without getting into a debate of languages, its still an interesting observation. Bootstrap that!
• Recruitment and the Mythical Year of Experience - I totally agree with this one ... and wonder how the "other half" of developers get by
• Coding Horror: The Danger of Naivete - interesting how something that looks so simple can be very complex
• The Best Software Development Books of 2007 - book list