Best of this Week Summary 7 July - 13 July 2008

• Bjarne Stroustrup in an interview describing what every programmer and software engineer should know about C++.
  


• Browser memory performance comparison between Safari 3.1, Firefox 3.0, Flock 1.2, Opera 9.5 and IE 8.0 B1. Conclusion: Firefox 3 beats them all in memory efficoency.
  


• Definite interesting read this white paper from Kent Beck "Tools for Agility". On an invitation basis from Microsoft, he wrote "thoughts on the relationship between tools and agile software development. He looks at how tools have evolved in aiding software flow, efficient transition and team transparency". It includes what makes agile development different and difficult from other development-cycle approaches. For example the tools should support: even shorter development cycles, even more automated testing, much more transition between activities, transparency and real time collaboration, .
  


• Great list of eight REST anti-patterns.