Christopher Diggins has an interesting post on Intentional Programming. This is a new way of applying top-down design. It's a very good idea: you write your code nice and clear, with calls to sub-methods that "do the right thing" - sub-methods that you'll write later. The advantage of this is that your code will be quite readable. And since our code always lasts much longer than we ever intended, clear readable code is more maintainable (and likely to haveless bugs, too). An idea well worth thinking...

Imagine hanging onto one of the solid rocket boosters when the Space Shuttle goes up. This is a cool 4 minute video of a camera on one of the Atlantis flights. It's on from takeoff - to separation - to splashdown. There's no sound, but just try to imagine everything shaking around you... http://mfile.akamai.com/185... ...