Writing good documentation is, first of all, good writing.

…write self-explanatory code and only document code in the places that you cannot make it clear by writing the code itself.

Excerpt from How to be a Programmer.

Scads: Scale-independent storage for social computing applications http://radlab.cs.berkeley.edu/publication/185

RadLab at UC Berkeley is proposing a new database architecture trying to get the best of both worlds: 1) easy scalability of key-value data store and 2) rich SQL-like features.

The Tech Online Edition, By Keith Yost

“I’m a free marketeer. I believe that voluntary exchange is not just a good method of incentivizing people to provide their labor and talents to society, but a robust moral system — goods and services represent tangible benefit to people, market prices represent the true value of goods in society, and wages represent the value that a worker provides to others.”

Read more at: http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N18/dubai.html

The Tech Online Edition, MIT’s oldest and largest newspaper & the first newspaper published on the web:

http://tech.mit.edu/

IBM是个人电脑(PC)硬件的最早制造商之一,通过和微软和Intel的合作,同时开放了基于DOS的软件开发平台,为全世界的 应用软件开发厂商提供了一个通用的计算机平台。

这个经典的IBM+微软+Intel技术平台,必须依赖一套内容丰富准确的技术文档才能让软件开发商的程序员学会如何为平台写软件:

IBM-PC Technical Reference Manual

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