links for 2008-05-27

Why Krugman is Wrong | By Andrew Sullivan
Deconstructing the latent racism of HRC.
(tags: obama hillaryclinton 2008 election)

The 16-year rewrite (Scripting News)
“Sometimes code rewrites are the way to go.” Yeah, if you’re dealing with 16 year old code, it’s probably worth reexamining your assumptions occasionally.
(tags: development)

Barefoot in the Park? Watch Your Step - NYTimes.com
Don’t go barefoot [...]

Becoming a product manager when you aren’t one already

Being one of the top Google hits for “product manager resume” has its responsibilities as well as its perks. I occasionally, as I was today, get contacted by people trying to figure out things about the product management career path, and sometimes they ask really good questions. Today my correspondent asked, essentially, how to become [...]

Greatest hits, revisited: Whither SOAP?

I’ve been doing a bit of clean up on some of the early days of my site. Back then, I used Manila’s “story” feature (akin to WordPress pages), and a bit of code that allowed you to edit the front page of the site every day, flipping the old version back into the archives automatically [...]