Better Software Development

Quoting Kent Beck from XP:Explained

Information-Sources

• Agile Manifesto (signed July 2002)
• Demotivators
• http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com Pragmatic Programmers
• http://www.voelter.de/publications/index.html
• http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/
• Object Mentor Practices
• Interface Design from Artimas Bill Venners

Refactoring

• http://www.refactoring.com (Martin Fowler) http://www.refactoring.com/catalog/index.html
• http://www.refactoring.be
• http://www.industriallogic.com (Refactoring to Patterns)
• http://www.industriallogic.com/papers/smellstorefactorings.pdf

Development Practices

• ProgrammingPrinciples
• PairProgramming
• CollectiveCodeOwnership
• CodeKata

Quotes

Pragmatic Programmers:

• Software projects are inherently projects of discovery. You and your team will learn more as time goes by.
• ... and lock yourself into a design or architecture that won't support important requirements that you haven't gotten to yet.

(http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ppllc/papers/1999_03.html)

Blueprints, Patterns, and the like

• Java EE5 BP