August 2010, links

stackoverflow.com – Strangest programming language feature

Kyle Brandt writes about – Should Developers have Access to Production?

International Telecommunications Union is considering eliminating leap seconds from the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Read here.

Icons of the Web. A large-scale scan of the top million web sites (per
Alexa traffic data) was performed. We retrieved each site’s icon…

Searching For Backdoors From Rogue IT Admin / Staff

Joel on Software – Command and Conquer and the Herd of Coconuts