Determine browswer tab if active by HTML5 Visibility API

http://code.tutsplus.com/articles/html5-page-visibility-api--cms-22021

demo link
http://demo.xpertdeveloper.com/page-visibility-api/demo1.html

Why You Should NOT Implement Layered Architectures

http://blog.jooq.org/2014/09/12/why-you-should-not-implement-layered-architecture/

Optimizing static websites hosted on IIS

http://madskristensen.net/post/optimizing-static-websites-on-iis

 

• Minify HTML
• Set far-future expiration dates on static resources (JS, CSS, images etc.)
• Use cookieless domains for static files
• Use a CDN

 

What Is Clean Code?

http://java.dzone.com/articles/what-clean-code-%E2%80%93-quotes
I like this one by Dave Thomas, founder of OTI and godfather of the Eclipse strategy:
It has unit and acceptance tests.
It has meaningful names.
It provides one way rather than many ways for doing one thing.
It has minimal dependencies, which are explicitly defined, and provides a clear and minimal API.
Code should be literate since, depending on the language, not all necessary information can be expressed clearly in code alone

If programming languages were weapons

http://bjorn.tipling.com/if-programming-languages-were-weapons

C# is a powerful laser rifle strapped to a donkey, when taken off the donkey the laser doesn’t seem to work as well.