10 Papers Every Developer Should Read

(This is a requested repost of a lost blog I wrote in 2009. I'd change a few things, but not many)

I spent most of yesterday afternoon working on a paper I’m co-writing. It was one of those days when the writing came easy. I was moving from topic to topic, but then I realized that I was reaching too far backward – I was explaining things which I shouldn’t have had to explain to the audience I was trying to reach.

When I first started writing, one of the pieces of advice that I heard was t...