A great and clever article: Soft Coding. There are great comments too. My favorites: “I’m not going to spend my life writing my own little framework for every possible business rule change. If business rules change, then so should the code.”, “This article really gets to the heart of ‘art of coding’, that is finding the right balance between: saving time and money now (hard coding) vs saving time and money later (soft coding)”, ”Always program as if the person who will be maintaining your program is a violent psychopath that knows where you live.”
Another article: Programming Sucks! Or At Least, It Ought To.
