Developers Links

The Programmers' Stone & Reciprocality
Two really great projects of Alan Carter and Colston Sanger aimed to understand how to learn the programming and why some programmers are often more effective than the others. A good background to start thinking about how you're thinking.

Also, the Programmer's Stone in Russian is available.

Joel On Software : painless software management.
A number of very interesting articles about Joel's approach to achieving success in IT-business. It's possible to find some answers to the questions that came up to everyone who ever thought about how to make programmer's work in a small team more effective. Especially these articles are worth to be noticed:

• Fire And Motion. An infantry battle strategy as a winning strategy in a small software business.
• The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code. Time to make a quick, "highly irresponsible and sloppy" self-testing of your software team.

The site content is available in more than 20 languages, including the Russian version.

Pieter's Delphi Corner presents an impressive collection of freeware programming components, including the super fast TFastIniFile.

PNG Delphi component by Gustavo Daud brings excellent PNG support with a built-in ability to produce lightweight applications.

As the name suggests, Free Pascal accompanied with Lazarus is free and exclusive solution that proudly opens Windows x64 platform to the Delphi world.

Photo-survey of Novomoskovsk

Great photo collection of the Novomoskovsk city, Russia and even more is proudly presented by Sergey Kolesnikov — ValueShots (in Russian).