Nice story that shows how a highly iterative approach to problem solving can be superior to traditional engineering methods; and that too much knowledge sometimes hinders creativity.
J.D. Meier explains why sticking to the 40 hour week is hugely beneficial to any organization, provided the 40 hours are used in the right way. Which is outlined in the article.
webkit's Web Inspector, a browser add-in to inspect, manipulate and debug web pages, looks enormously promising. This is still beta but definitely looks like it's beating Firebug at the moment.
Jakob Kaplan-Moss on the current state of web development: how we got were we are now, and what needs to happen in the future. Interesting, insightful.
Questions and answers on programming. Good contributions result in points to be used for voting on questions and answers. It'll be interesting to see if the trolls can be kept out this way.
Here it is, a roadmap for Django 1.0. As a happy 'trunk' user I did'nt have any problems with 0.96 being the last release, but I guess version 1.0 will be good news for Django's standing in the world of web frameworks.
Web development may not be an engineering discipline, but some of the general "laws" of software engineering are equally true in the web industry. Nice summary.