Since my busyness doesn't seem to stop, I'm falling back on attempting a cheap clone of Erik's linkblog...

To start with, Dan Countryman has something to tell you about pair programming. To be more specific, about what might happen if you stop pair programming.

Continuing with the XP theme, Dave Astels is telling you that your code sucks. Interestingly, someone decided to republish his blog entry in full at TSS.NET.

Still continuing with the XP theme, SDTimes has featured a small guest view on XP by Larry McCay.

Steve Maine has written up a very nice storyline about a four-part refactoring.

Rachel Davies has read Jutta Eckstein's latest and speaks highly of it.

I also picked up from TSS that some ex-BEA staffers have launched a startup for providing commercial support for open source software.

Apparently there's also some activity with regard to back-porting java.util.concurrency into Java 1.4 (something I would love to see happen for other Tiger features as well, knowing that I'll probably see Tiger in use at my current client sometime around 2006...).

I also loved seeing IBM developerWorks pushing out articles on AOP. Now if I could only make some time for using AspectJ on something...

While browsing the developerWorks site, I also spotted this. Sounds cool. Better make a note about this library's existence.

My RSS aggregator, bloglines.com, has published a web services API. Now you can poll for new messages and then fetch the blog entries. Marc Hedlund has also written an article about the new API for O'Reilly Network.

Phew. That's all folks. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some sleeping to do...