13.1. Links and References
Freecell Solver Links
People who were Involved in the Development
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The Joel
Test - building a package in one step, fixing bugs before writing new code
and other stuff.
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Eating
your own Dog Food - the importance of using your own software.
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Bloatware
and the 80/20 Myth - why a feature-rich software needs all its features.
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Things
you should never do, Part I - why re-writing an entire codebase from
scratch is a bad idea.
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Back
to Basics - about O(n) lookups and unnecessarily increasing a program's
complexity by an order of n.
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Five Worlds -
about the differences between Shrink-wrap software, one for internal use,
throwaway, embedded and games.
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Note: Joel's articles are mostly relevant to commercial, market-place
software, and should be taken with a grain of salt in regard to writing
voluntary, open-source one. (and should be taken with a grain of salt in
any case, because he seems very opinionated)
General Freecell Links