A bunch of people have been pointing to Terence Parr's Little Nybbles of Development Wisdom (most recently seen at Codaland).  This is indeed a great list.  I wish I'd had someone beating this into my head a year ago.

Incidentally, there were some harsh words (permalink's broken) for Dare's most recent XML-Schema article over at Codaland.  Well, the harshest words were reserved for XML Schema itself.  Dare's article's on queue, but I've taken the weekend (mostly) off, so I won't comment on it based on the half page I've read, but I should point out that the quote singled out for criticism ("Do not try to be a master of XML Schema") was actually from Kohsuke Kawaguchi's XML Schema made Simple, so it's not fair to pin that one on Dare. 

Andy Oliver has some comments on .NET that are just dead on.  Next time anybody tries to resurrect one of the various J* vs. .N?T horses for another 40 lashes, I'll just quote Andy.  I like the analogy to the Intel 80286, which reminds me of the first battle MS won, where the 286 was the boat anchor around OS/2's neck.