Chad Fowler: The Big Rewrite
word of caution on embarking on big software rewrites
Microsoft Office XML Formats? Defective by design
How easy is it to modify Microsoft OpenXML Office files outside of MS Office?
Advice to Microsoft regarding commodity software
The Duct Tape Programmer - Joel on Software
Jamie Zawinski is what I would call a duct-tape programmer.... He is the guy you want on your team building go-carts, because he has two favorite tools: duct tape and WD-40. And he will wield them elegantly even as your go-cart is careening down the hill at a mile a minute
rc3.org - A third kind of freedom
What Apple offers in exchange for giving up Freedom 0 ... is a new freedom for computer users — the freedom to install stuff on your computer without screwing things up.
Camels and Rubber Duckies - Joel on Software
Take my advice, offered about 20 pages back: charge $0.05 for your software. Unless it does bug tracking, in which case the correct price is $30,000,000. Thank you for your time, and I apologize for leaving you even less able to price software than you were when you started reading this.