First few milliseconds of https

http://www.moserware.com/2009/06/first-few-milliseconds-of-https.html

9 things to learn as a software engineer

link

In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000007.html

How To Write Unmaintainable Code

https://www.thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html

Want to start a startup?

http://paulgraham.com/stsartupideas.html

The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html

Programming Best Practices

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1bcebh/programming_best_practices