Oram Andy - Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think

, A Regular Expression Matcher , by Brian Kernighan, shows how deep insight into a language and a problem can lead to a concise and elegant solution.

, Subversion's Delta Editor: Interface As Ontology , by Karl Fogel, starts with a well-chosen abstraction and demonstrates its unifying effects on the system's further development.

, The Most Beautiful Code I Never Wrote , by Jon Bentley, suggests how to measure a procedure without actually executing it.

, Finding Things , by Tim Bray, draws together many strands in Computer Science in an exploration of a problem that is fundamental to many computing tasks.

, Correct, Beautiful, Fast (in That Order): Lessons from Designing XML Verifiers , by Elliotte Rusty Harold, reconciles the often conflicting goals of thoroughness and good performance.

, Framework for Integrated Test: Beauty Through Fragility , by Michael Feathers, presents an example that breaks the rules and achieves its own elegant solution.

, Beautiful Tests , by Alberto Savoia, shows how a broad, creative approach to testing can not only eliminate bugs but turn you into a better programmer.

, On-the-Fly Code Generation for Image Processing , by Charles Petzold, drops down a level to improve performance while maintaining portability.

, Top Down Operator Precedence , by Douglas Crockford, revives an almost forgotten parsing technique and shows its new relevance to the popular JavaScript language.

, The Quest for an Accelerated Population Count , by Henry S. Warren, Jr., reveals the impact that some clever algorithms can have on even a seemingly simple problem.

, Secure Communication: The Technology Of Freedom , by Ashish Gulhati, discusses the directed evolution of a secure messaging application that was designed to make sophisticated but often confusing cryptographic technology intuitively accessible to users.

, Growing Beautiful Code in BioPerl , by Lincoln Stein, shows how the combination of a flexible language and a custom-designed module can make it easy for people with modest programming skills to create powerful visualizations for their data.

, The Design of the Gene Sorter , by Jim Kent, combines simple building blocks to produce a robust and valuable tool for gene researchers.

, How Elegant Code Evolves with Hardware: The Case of Gaussian Elimination , by Jack Dongarra and Piotr Luszczek, surveys the history of LINPACK and related major software packages to show how assumptions must constantly be re-evaluated in the face of new computing architectures.

, The Long-Term Benefits of Beautiful Design , by Adam Kolawa, explains how attention to good design principles many decades ago helped CERN's widely used mathematical library (the predecessor of LINPACK) stand the test of time.

, The Linux Kernel Driver Model: The Benefits of Working Together , by Greg Kroah-Hartman, explains how many efforts by different collaborators to solve different problems led to the successful evolution of a complex, multithreaded system.

, Another Level of Indirection , by Diomidis Spinellis, shows how the flexibility and maintainability of the FreeBSD kernel is promoted by abstracting operations done in common by many drivers and filesystem modules.

, Python's Dictionary Implementation: Being All Things to All People , by Andrew Kuchling, explains how a careful design combined with accommodations for a few special cases allows a language feature to support many different uses.