Here it is. A first round of Promit's Principles of Software Engineering. I may expand on this list in future posts, but this will get us started nicely.

1) All good software engineering is fundamentally motivated by KISS and YAGNI.

It's a fairly straightforward observation that the complexity of sof…

I've decided that I'm pretty tired of repeating this all the time, so I may as well write it all down.

The official spec doc is completely useless; you have to refer to the extension specs for any kind of useful information.

The extensions thing is irritating, and you usually end up using several do…

If you're reading this, save a copy. I'm revealing deeply guarded secrets of GDNet's internal operations. There's no telling when this post will be annihilated. Don't say I didn't warn you.
As many of you have noticed, GDNet has been down over the last ten days or so. While the site leadership wishe…