<p><a href="http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html">How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary</a> by Robert L Read, is a wonderful short book every programmer should read. You&#8217;ll get an idea of the skills you should improve in the different stages of your path through programming. And I love the fact that there is no code there, not even one programming language name mentioned! And he goes through Debugging, Unit Testing and so. And you&#8217;ll read it incredible fast!</p>

<p><a href="http://fupeg.blogspot.com/2008/04/why-johnny-cant-scale.html">Why Johnny Can&#8217;t Scale</a> is a post on why Twitter can&#8217;t scale as it should and a small rant on Ruby on Rails. You should read it along with the debate in the comments between Michael Galpin and <span class="caps">DHH</span> himself.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.wait-till-i.com/2008/04/26/fencing-in-the-habitat-doing-things-right-and-getting-the-accessibility-wrong/">Fencing in the habitat &#8211; doing things right and getting the accessibility wrong</a> is a presentation by Christian Heilmann on accessibility on the web. And I love how you can get the idea by just reading the slides. A must for webdevelopers!</p>