Very good documentary series by BBC regarding history of gold.

• Part I
• Part II
• Part III

One of the greatest obsessions of human beings.

• Your ‘Big Idea’ Sucks
• Detecting global variable leaks
• Security Religions and Risk Windows
• JavaScript based encryption using RSA – Really nice concept
• Authentication in RESTful Systems
• The notion of Stateless in REST Architecture
• How lucky is/will be President Obama
• How people over age 15 spent their time in 2008

• Using only classes do not make your code object oriented
• Behavior Patterns of Open Source Users in terms of itches and typical state of an OS project
• ***Singleton*** Beware of it!!!

• Unit Testing may be the answer for EU’s Software Liability Lawsuit
• LINQ in Javascript
• What Software Developers Should Know Coming out of School – Part 1
• Dependency Injection (DI) is getting lots of buzz in PHP community recently
• The Plague of Blindness

Most of the time, I have been sharing the links that I found interesting via Twitter and Facebook but, from now I will be posting them as a blog post so that people subscribing and reading my blog can view all the links I’m sharing in one place at same instance. I did use Delicious to do similar task in the past but it just didn’t work due to various reasons. The links post won’t be more than one per day hopefully and I also hope that you will get some extra information from them

Here are the links for today:

• http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/06/18/simplifying-css-selectors/ The cost of using CSS selectors
• http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/04/27/loading-scripts-without-blocking/ Loading Scripts Without Blocking
• http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2009/07/28/the-best-way-to-load-external-javascript/ The best way to load external JavaScript
• http://www.developer.com/mgmt/article.php/3831821 Four Crucial Factors for improving caching: Volatility, frequency of access, cost to recreate and size in cache
• http://martinfowler.com/articles/designDead.html Is Design Dead? This is one of the most quoted article by Martin Fowler when talking about eXtreme Programming (XP). Even though, it’s old but definitely worth looking at
• http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204886304574308233570132684.html How to Stop New York’s Meltdown or call it one of the big states in the crisis